Dear colleagues!                                                   

In October National Research Tomsk State University (TSU) successfully defended it's Road Map as one of 12 Leading Russian universities in Moscow at the RF Ministry of Science and Education and we selected new TSU Rector – Eduard Galazhinsky as well. I actively participated in the Road Map development and defence procedure. So, now we are waiting for big changes at the University.
As for me personally, I will completed my administrative job as a Vice Rector for International Affairs soon (at the end of November or February depending on situation), instead of that I'm going to place myself at the head of the Centre BIO-CLIM-LAND (Biota-Climate-Landscapes) – one of 5 Centers of Excellence we are going to establish and develop in our University at the framework of Competitiveness Improvement Program of National Research Tomsk State University. We are going to involve distinguished foreign scientists/experts to this Centre (part time job of course). TSU Administration will support the Centre from the Government Subsidy for Competitiveness Improvement Program of National Research Tomsk State University (about 15 millions roubles per year). I believe that could be a good condition for development of our cooperation.
At the framework of this Multidisciplinary platform we also are going to promote a new scientific journal BioClimLand (Biota, Climate, Landscapes).

Sergey N. Kirpotin

Vice-Rector for International Affairs

of Tomsk State University
Professor, Doctor of Sciences

Aims and Scope
The main mission of an international scientific journal BioClimLand is to cover urgent issues in the field of natural science, dealing with interaction between biota, climate and landscape. Special attention is to be given to the problems of biota and landscape transformation caused by climate changes under current conditions and in retrospective. Experimental and conceptual approaches to research are welcomed.
Besides, articles devoted to certain problems in the sphere of biology, soil science, hydrology, hydrochemistry, geochemistry, climatology and other natural science disciplines in connection with particular landscapes are published in the journal. Preference is given not only to interdisciplinary researches based on new original approaches, which makes it possible to get important scientific results, but also to analytical articles that contain observation of the latest achievements in the field of natural science.
The important objectives of the journal are overwhelming coverage of rational nature management issues with the focus on integrated activities aimed at protecting biota and its landscapes and search for new approaches to protecting wildlife, which is a prerequisite for human civilization prosperity in the changing world.
Issuing Body
BioClimLand is published by Tomsk State University (Russia).

ISSN 2410-9258