Alexander Gavashelishvili

TL;DR: This model provides a tool to improve search effectiveness for leopard in the Caucasus, Middle East and central Asia as well as for the conservation and management of the species.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the projection of suitable habitat models onto past climatic conditions may yield realistic boundaries of glacialRefugia, and that the current distribution of forest species in the study region is strongly associated with locations of former refugia.

TL;DR: It is suggested that all Caucasian bears belong to the nominal subspecies of Ursus arctos, and the low genetic differentiation inferred from microsatellite allele frequencies indicates that gene flow between the two populations in the Caucasus is maintained through the movements of male brown bears.

TL;DR: How management strategies should aim at the maintenance (or increase) of current genetic variability levels is discussed, suggesting that independent conservation plans are urgently required to protect these two breeding European populations from extinction.

TL;DR: The parthenogen is a stronger competitor than the bisexual breeders and potential advantages of the bisexual reproduction remain unrealized in the given temporal and spatial scale to explain domination of bisexually breeding lizards on the global scale.