ANATOLIY PETROVYCH STADNYK: scientist, EXPERT ON AGROFORESTRY MELIORATIONS, ENVIRONMENTALIST, forester, Educator (On the occasion of 65 <sup>th</sup> birth anniversary)
Anatoliy Petrovych STADNYK - Member of the Forestry Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. of Ukraine in Agricultural Sciences (specialty03.00.16 - Ecology), Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Department of Silviculture, Botany and Plant Physiology at the Bilotserkivskyi National Agrarian University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Honoured Doctor at the Institute of Agroecology and Nature Management of National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. He is well-benown in Ukraine and beyond its borders scientist in the field of Forest Melioration, Agroecology and Environmental Protection. A.P. Stadnyk has founded a new research field in Ukraine - the Landscape Forest Melioration. A.P. Stadnyk is the author (co-author) of more than 170 published works, in particular 8 monographs, Encyclopedia of Forest Melioration, reference book-dictionary on Agroecology and Nature Management, the Concept of Agricultural Landscapes Management (2008), Concept of soil protection against erosion in Ukraine (2008), 20 scientific and methodological developments. Under his academic guidance there has been prepared and submitted the doctoral thesis on the 03.00.16 specialty- Ecology (Biological Sciences). Currently he is a supervisor of Ph.D. students studies as well. He was awarded two ENEA and USSR medals (1980, 1984), Honorary Diploma by the Presidium at the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (2008), the Appreciation Certificate by the President of the State Agency of forest resources of Ukraine (2012).