Projects 1997–2009
Programs of fundamental researches
in the framework of Department of General Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Taxonomy, fauna and zoogeography of some avian groups.
- Taxonomy and phylogeny of fossil birds (late cretaceous, palaeogene, and quaternary).
- Taxonomy, identification tables and the revision of some bird’s groups.
- Seasonal cyclicity in birds on the endogenous annual and circadian programs.
- Comparative analysis of energetic metabolism and its adaptive features in birds and reptiles.
- Making up a catalogue of nomenclature types in the collection of Ornithological Department, Zoological Institute.
- Birds of urban territories by the example of birds in Saint-Petersburg.
- Patterns of population dynamics and population structures by the example of Passerines in Eastern Baltic.
- Fauna, taxonomy and the problems of population structure of Palearctic birds.
Projects supported by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research
- Comparative demographic analysis of sex-specific mortality in animals and humans.
- The use of demographic and morphometric parameters for the prognosis of trends in animal populations (by the example of birds).
Projects supported by foreign funds
- Demographic parameters and distribution of hunted thrush populations.
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