VICTOR V. BOGATOV

TITLES:

Academic Secretary of Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok; Head, Laboratory of Freshwater Communities, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok; Professor, Department of Ecology, Far East State University, Vladivostok.

EDUCATION:

M.S., biology, Kalinin (now Tver) State University, Kalinin (now Tver), Russia, 1973.

Ph.D., biology, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1983.

Doctor of Sciences, biology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1993.

POSITIONS:

Probationer-Researcher, Pacific Institute of Geography, Department of Hydrology, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, 1974-1976.

Junior Researcher, Pacific Institute of Geography, Department of Hydrology, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, 1976-1978.

Junior Researcher, Khabarovsk Comprehensive Research Institute, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, 1978-1983.

Junior Researcher, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1983-1986.

Researcher, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1986-1989.

Senior Researcher, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1989-1992.

Head, Laboratory of Freshwater Communities, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1992-present.

Academic Secretary of Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1989-present.

Chief specialist, Presidium, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1992-present.

Member, United Science Council, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ecological and Geographical Sciences, 1992-present.

Professor, Department of Ecology, Far East State University, Vladivostok, 1993-present.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Far East Association of Scientists, Russian Hydrobiological Society, Russian Entomological Society, Russian Malacological Society.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Numerous expeditions in the Russian Far East, especially in and around the Amur River system; six expeditions to the Kuril Islands.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1975, 62 scientific publications on the taxonomy and distribution of fresh and brackish water molluscs, ecology of freshwater communities, production of freshwater invertebrates, drift of stream invertebrates, and conservation and management of running waters.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• Zatravkin M. N., and V. V. BOGATOV. 1987. Large bivalve molluscs of fresh and brackish waters of the Far Eastern USSR. Vladivostok: Far East Branch, Academy of Science, USSR, 152 pp.

• BOGATOV V. V., M. N. Zatravkin. 1988. New species of the order Unioniformes (Mollusca Bivalvia) from the south part of Soviet Far East. pp. 155-168, In: Systematics and fauna of Gastropoda, Bivalvia, and Cephalopoda. Proc. Zool. Inst., Academy of Sciences, USSR, Leningrad, Vol. 187.

• BOGATOV V. V., and M. N. Zatravkin. 1990. Gastropods of fresh and brackish waters of the Far Eastern USSR. Vladivostok: Far East Branch, Academy of Science of the USSR, 170 pp.

• BOGATOV V. V., and Y. I. Starobogatov. 1992. Pearly mussels from Southern Primorye. Zool. Zh., 71(11): 132-156.

• BOGATOV V. V., S. E. Sirotsky, and D. N. Yuriev. 1993. The ecosystem of the Amur River. pp. In: C. E. Cushing, K. Cummins, G. W. Minshall (Eds.), Ecosystems of the World. River and Stream Ecosystems. Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, & Tokyo: Elsevier.