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David Tarkhnishvili

Keywords : Caucasus Ethnogenesis Glacial refugia Human ecology Landscape genetics Language Paternal lineage Y-dna haplogroup

Country : Georgia

Organization : Ilia State University

Department : Institute of Ecology

Email : david_tarkhnishvili@iliauni.edu.ge

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Biography :

About

graduated from Tbilisi State University (Biology, zoology) (1982). PhD in Ecology from Research Inst. of Ecology, Ural Sci. Center at Sverdlovsk (pres. Ekaterinsburg), Russia, 1987. Research – interspecific competition of amphibians. Work experience – Tbilisi State University, Vietnam Tropical Center (1990), Bangor University, UK (1996-1997, post-doctoral fellow), Zoological Research Institute and Museum Al. Koenig, Bonn, Germany (1998; 1999-2003; post-doctoral fellow, researcher).Studies mostly in ecology, biogeography, population genetics and evolution of amphibians and reptiles. Over 100 published research papers. At Ilia State since 2006, employed as a dean of the school of Life Sciences, director of the Institute of Ecology, and dean of the School of Science and Engineering.

Research interests

Evolutionary biology
Speciation
Population ecology and genetics
Ecological modeling
Biogeography
Human population genetics
Caucasus
Amphibians and reptiles were the main research object for many years, however, in recent years the projects are on different organisms, including conifer plants, lizards, snails, domestic animals, and humans.

Bibliography

Palaeoclimatic models help to understand current distribution of Caucasian forest species 2012 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Historical biogeography of the caucasus 2014

Ecological divergence between two evolutionary lineages of the Caucasian salamander: Evidence from GIS analysis 2008 Herpetological Journal

Geographic and genetic boundaries of brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in the Caucasus 2010 Molecular Ecology

Some water chemistry parameters of breeding habitats of the Caucasian salamander, Mertensiella caucasica in the Western Lesser Caucasus 2009 Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Humid forest refugia, speciation and secondary introgression between evolutionary lineages: Differentiation in a Near Eastern brown frog, Rana macrocnemis 2001 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Mitochondrial phylogeny of the darevskia saxicola complex: Two highly deviant evolutionary lineages from the easternmost part of the range 2016 Herpetological Journal

Speciation in Caucasian lizards: Climatic dissimilarity of the habitats is more important than isolation time 2013 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Land Use and Landscape Conservation in Southern Georgia 2001

Gene Flow Between Wolf and Shepherd Dog Populations in Georgia (Caucasus) 2014 Journal of heredity

Gene introgression between Gazella subgutturosa and G. marica: Limitations of maternal inheritance analysis for species identification with conservation purposes 2012 Acta Theriologica