VICTOR A. KOSTENKO

TITLES:

Professor of Zoology and Senior Researcher, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.

EDUCATION:

Chair of Zoology, Far-East State University, Vladivostok, Russia, 1961.

Doctor of Sciences, Biology, Far-East Section, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Vladivostok, Russia, 1969.

Professor of zoology, Ussurian State Pedagogical Institute, Ussuriisk, Russia, 1969.

POSITIONS:

Laboratory assistant, Zoology Department, Far-East Section, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok, 1961.

Senior assistant of Zoology Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far-East Section, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok, 1962.

Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far-East Section, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok, 1963-1967.

Senior Teacher, Chair of Biology, Ussurian State Pedagogical Institute, Ussuriisk, 1968-1970.

Acting Dean, Biological Faculty, Ussurian State Pedagogical Institute, Ussuriisk, 1970-1971.

Senior Researcher, Land Vertebrate Zoology Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok, 1971-1982.

Head, Land Vertebrate Zoology Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok, 1982-1988.

Head, Laboratory of Theriology, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok, 1989-1991.

Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Zoology of Land Vertebrates, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1992-present,

Chairman, Group in coordination of rodent size dynamic research in the USSR Far East, 1981-1992.

Secretary, Specialized Board for Awarding Doctor Degree of Sciences, Presidium of the Far East Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1975-1982.

Member, Specialized Board for Awarding Doctor Degree of Sciences, Presidium of the Far East Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1982-1991.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:

Russian Theriological Society, 1965-present.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Extensive field work in western and eastern Siberia, Yakutia, and in North East Asia; numerous expeditions to the Kuril Archipelago.

PUBLICATIONS:

136 scientific publications on the biodiversity, zoogeography, population ecology, behavior, population dynamics, and geographic and morphological variation of small rodents of the Eastern Palearctic; mammals of Yakutia, small ma mmals of North East Asia, terrestrial mammals of the Far East of USSR and on the rare species of vertebrate animals of Russian Far East.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• KOSTENKO, V. A. 1984. Order Rodentia. pp. 45-76, In: The Mammals of Zeisky Reservation. Vladivostok, Far East Sci. Center Acad. Sci. USSR [in Russian].

• KOSTENKO, V. A., T. V. ALLENOVA. 1978. Special features of biology and morphology of Shikotan Island's voles. pp. 119-129, In: Ecology and zoogeography of some vertebrate animals of the Far East Land. Vladivostok: Far East Center, Acad. S ci. USSR [in Russian, re-issued in Japan].

• KOSTENKO, V. A., T. V. ALLENOVA. 1989. The intraspecific differentiation in the root vole in the Far East and history of the formation of subspecific form. pp. 4-25, In: Theriological researches in the South of the Far East. Vladivostok: Far East Branch, Acad. Sci. USSR [in Russian].

• KOSTENKO, V. A., A. S. BATALOV, and J. N. DUNISHENKO. 1990. The hunt-economic complex prolonged program of nature protection and rational use of natural resources of Primorsky Region up to 2005 (Ecological program). Vladivostok: Far East Br anch, Acad. Sci. USSR, 47 pp. [in Russian].

• KOSTENKO, V. A., and V. A. NESTERENKO. 1989. The features of rodent territorial distribution and its dynamics in South Primorye. pp. 54-71, In: Theriological researches in the South of the Far East. Vladivostok: Far East Branch Acad. Sci. USSR [in Russian].