Scientific interests
- Fauna, ecology and ethology of bats (Chiroptera), the forest
(dendrophilous) bats predominantly
- Questions of rare bat species protection in situ and ex situ
- The fauna of Podillya (Ukraine), especially batfauna, nature-protected
areas of Podillya
- Vertebrates fauna researches at the nature-protected areas,
summer and winter records of bats, ultrasound recording
- Fauna, population and ecology of the forest vertebrates, forests
biodiversity, forest ecology, ecophytocenological peculiarities
of mammals and birds forest habitats
- Bat biology, applied researches of bat keeping in captivity,
their rehabilitation, exposition and reintroduction
- Vertebrates at the urbolandscape
- Social, food and reproductive behavior of the mammals and birds
Educational background
Graduated from Kiev Taras Shevchenko University in
1997, Department of Biology, speciality "Zoology"- biologist-zoologist
of vertebrate, biology teacher. Now — candidate for Ph.D. by theme
"Dendrophilous bats species ecology of the Podillya (Ukraine) and
their value for the forests". .
Work
1. Lecturer of Forestry Department, Institute of
Forestry and Landscape Architecture National Agricultural University,
Kyiv. 2. Education-research officer, Research-educational Department,
Kyiv Zoo.
Public work
Research coordinator of the Center of Bat Rehabilitation
at the Kyiv Zoo; expert-registrar of "Bern' Bats" expert commission
at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine;
member of Ukrainian Centre for Bat Protection, Ukrainian Theriological
Society, Ukrainian Society of Bird Protection; scientific adviser
of student zoological-conservancy circle.
Address
Forestry Department,
Educational-Scientific Institute of Forestry and Landscape Architecture,
National Agricultural University,
Generala Rodimtseva Str. 19, Kyiv, 03041, Ukraine
E-mail: kazhan@ukrpost.com.ua
Selected publications
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