Igor Zagorodniuk

Igor Zagorodniuk

Academic degree

Candidate of Biological Sciences, 1991

Academic title

Senior Research Fellow, 1997

Associate Professor, 2005

Position

Leading Research Fellow, 2026

Research interests

mammalian taxonomy and variation; the concept of species and sibling species; biogeography and historical changes in the biota

Education

Біологічний факультет Київського державного університету імені Тараса Шевченка

Topic of the PhD thesis

The Systematics of Pine and Common Voles from Eastern Europe, 1991

Profiles in scientometric databases

Key publications

1. Zagorodniuk, I. 2016. Cryptic diversity of biota, sibling species and researchers' daltonism. Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Biology, 71: 3–30. [Ukrainian]

2. Zagorodniuk, I., Korobchenko, M., Kirichenko, V. 2017. Mole-rats Nannospalax leucodon and Spalax zemni in Ukraine: identification criteria and border between their ranges. Proceedings of the Theriological School, 15: 97–104. https://doi.org/10.15407/ptt2017.15.097

3. Barkaszi, Z., Zagorodniuk, I. 2018. Living on the edge: distribution patterns of steppe mammals in Transcarpathia (Ukraine). Biologicni Studii, 12 (3–4): 75–94. https://doi.org/10.30970/sbi.1203.573

4. Popova, L. V., L. C. Maul, I. V. Zagorodniuk, [et al.]. 2019. ‘Good fences make good neighbours’: concepts and records of range dynamics of ground squirrels and geographical barriers in the Pleistocene of the Circum-Black Sea area. Quaternary International, 509: 103–120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.023

5. Zagorodniuk, I. 2020. Close species of rodent superfamily Muroidae in the fauna of Ukraine: taxonomy, biogeography, diagnostics, and ecomorphology. Theriologia Ukrainica, 19: 3–26. [Ukrainian] https://doi.org/10.15407/TU1903

6. Zagorodniuk, I. 2021. Transitive taxonomic systems (TTS) and speciation during range dynamics. Geo&Bio, 21: 153–184. [Ukrainian] https://doi.org/10.15407/gb2113

7. Zagorodniuk, I., E. Rizun. 2022. Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Ukrainian Polissia: a biogeographical analysis. Theriologia Ukrainica, 24: 104–119. [Ukrainian] doi: http://doi.org/10.15407/TU2410

8. Zagorodniuk, I. V. 2023. Priorities in nature conservation in times of war: the situation with the Great Meadow and the Great Steppe. Visnyk NAS of Ukraine, No. 9: 12–23. [Ukrainian] https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2023.09.012

9. Zagorodniuk, I., D. Lazariev. 2024. Dynamics of distribution of introduced mammals in Ukraine and factors influencing them. Biosystems Diversity, 32 (4): 522–542. http://doi.org/10.15421/012455

10. Zagorodniuk, I. 2025. Large and small bears (Ursus arctos): are these features of the past and present? Theriologia Ukrainica, 30: 3–17. https://doi.org/10.53452/TU3003