[Department of Invertebrate Fauna and Systematics]

Robert S. VARGOVITSH (also spelled as Vargovich) Роберт Стефанович ВАРГОВИЧ   arete@izan.kiev.ua

Position

Senior Research Scientist

Scientific Degree

PhD

Dissertation:

“Cave springtails (Collembola) of the main karstic regions of Ukraine (systematics, fauna and ecology)”. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kiev, 2010: 382 p.

Education

Uzhgorod State University, Biological Faculty (1991)

Research interests

Biospeleology

Cave fauna of Carpathians, Crimea and Caucasus

Taxonomy of cave Collembola

Collections

Curator of the “Cave Invertebrates” collection at Schmalhausen IZ

Research trips

1988-2011: Ukraine (Carpathians, Crimean Mts, Podolye, Bukovina etc.);

1991: Turkmenistan (Central Asia: Kugitang Ridge);

1997: Switzerland (La Chaux-de-Fonds);

1997: Poland (Ojcov National Park); 1998: Romania (Bihor Mts);

1999: Slovakia (Kosice); 2006: Hungary (Bukk Mts);

2006-2017: Abkhazia and Russia (Caucasus Mts)

Membership in scientific societies

Ukrainian Speleological Association, since 1992

Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and Karstology, since 2006/

Ukrainian Entomological Society, since 2006

Links:

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Project: The Rufford Foundation >>

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2017