[ Laboratory of Population Ecology ]

Lena V. Godlevska PhD, senior researcher Senior research scientist in the Laboratory of Population Ecology E-mail: LGodlevska (at) izan.kiev.ua Web-site: http://kazhan.org.ua/eng/persons/godl-home.htm

Main interests

Fauna, ecology, zoogeography, phylogeography of bats, niche modelling analyses. Wildlife conservation.

Degrees

2007: PhD-degree, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, NAS of Ukraine.

Academic rank

Senior researcher.

Awards and fellowships

2005: alumni Grant by the BP Conservation Programme.

2011–2013: the President of Ukraine Fellowship for young scientists.

2012: the Spallanzani Award of North American Society for Bat Research (awarded 2012 in San Juan, PR (NASBR 42).

Supported projects

Has been involved in the execution of bat conservation projects as a team-leader or team-member.

2002: «Migratory status of bats in Ukraine» (by the MATRA programme, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; member of the executive team).

2002–2003: «Inventory of underground habitats in Ukraine and elaboration of recommendations to their protection» (supported by the MATRA programme of he Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; member of the executive team).

2004–2005: «Bat census in Crimean caves» (supported by BP Conser¬vation Programme, team leader).

2006–2007: «Key sites for cave-dwelling bats of Podillya and Dniester River region» (supported by DEFRA, UK; team leader).

2008–2009: «Key sites for cave-dwelling bats of the continental south of Ukraine» (by Luxembourg Direction des Eaux et Forкts, German Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety through the EUROBATS Secretariat; team leader).

2009: «Development of collaboration between bat workers and public healthy authorities: implementation for bat conservation in Ukraine» (by MEEDDAT, France; DEFRA, UK; EUROBATS Secretariat; team leader).

2009–2010: «Conservation of important underground bat sites in the Eastern Crimea (Southern Ukraine)» (by Stichting Zoogdierenwerkgroep Zuid-Holland and the Bat Support Fund for Eastern Europe; team leader).

2010–2011: «Follow-up inventory of underground bat sites in western part of Ukraine» (by Stichting Zoogdierenwerkgroep Zuid-Holland and the Bat Support Fund for Eastern Europe; team leader).

2012: Workshops on bat research and conservation in Belarus (by the Habitat Foundation; invited trainer and lecturer).

2014–2015: «Inventory of bat underground sites in “not-cave regions” of Ukraine» (by the Bat Support Fund for Eastern Europe; team leader).

2016–2017: «Bats of natural protected territories of Northern and Central Ukraine» (by the Rufford Foundation; applicant).

2018: «Conservation of Old-Growth Oak Forests of Kyiv Polissya as Habitats of Red List Species of Ukraine» (by the Rufford Foundation, team-member).

2019-2020: «Establishing the bank of Cetacean tissue samples in Ukraine» (by ACCOBAMS Agreement; a member of the executive team.

2019–2020: «Bats and vaults: search and inventory of underground bat shelters in Belarus» (by the voluntary contribution of Luxemburg under the Eurobats project initiative; co-applicant).

2020: «Discovering bat fauna of Ukraine» (by the European Mammal Fund; applicant).

since 2021: «Bat migration routes in Europe» (partner; lead by the French Museum of Natural History and CESCO lab).

2022-2023: «Discovering bat fauna of Ukraine: Follow-Up» (by the European Mammal Fund; applicant).

Professional involvement

Scientific focal point of Ukraine in Advisory Committee of EUROBATS Agreement.

Member of IUCN Species Survival Commission Bat Specialist Group.

Head of Scientific Advisory Council on the Conservation of Bats for the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.

Language skills

Ukrainian, Russian, English

Publications

Author and co-author of over 130 scientific papers and monographs, conference abstracts, row of education and popularization publications.

Google Scholar profile

Research Gate profile

Selected publications

(as for December, 2022)

Godlevska L., Savchenko M. Bats of the Kremenetski Hory National Nature Park. The first record of Myotis alcathoe in Ternopil oblast // Notes in Current Biology. – № 1 (1). – P. 51–54. [In Ukrainian.] DOI: https://doi.org/10.29038/2617-4723-2022-1-1-8

Shpak A., Godlevska L., Larchanka A., Savchenko M., Vorobei P., Molchan U., Mikhailau A. Contribution to the summer bat fauna of Belarus // Theriologia Ukrainica. – 2022. – 23. – P. 20–30. DOI: 10.15407/TU2305

Godlevska L. V., Rebrov S. V., Vorobei P. M., Savchenko M. O., Panchenko P. S. Bats of Central Ukraine: a synopsis. – Zoodiversity. – 2022. – 56(3). – P. 203–232. DOI 10.15407/zoo2022.03.203

Godlevska, L. V., Vorobei, P. M., Savchenko, O. M. Bat fauna of the territory of Rzhyschiv CATC // Biodiversity of Rzhyshchiv city amalgamated territorial community. – Chernivtsi, Druk Art, 2021. – P. 346–353. (Studies of “Hlyboki Вalyky” Ecological research station, Is. 1) [In Ukrainian].

Godlevska L. V. Bats and environment impact assessment // Environment impact assessment (EIA) of the projects at territories of the Emerald network / ed. by: K. A. Borysenko. – Chernivtsi, Druk Art, 2021. – P. 109–115.

Vorobei, P. M., Savchenko, M. O., Godlevska, L. V. Bat fauna of the Holosiivskyi National Nature Park, Northern part // Cherkasy University Bulletin: Biological Sciences Series. 2021. – 1. – P. 12–25. [In Ukrainian]. DOI: 10.31651/2076-5835-2018-1-2021-1-12-25.

Gazaryan, S. & Godlevska, L. 2021. Plecotus austriacus (amended version of 2020 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T85533333A195862345.

Godlevska L., Shpak A., Savchenko M., Vorobei P. Underground home of bats. – Kyiv, 2020, – 6 p. [In Ukrainian and Belarusian.]

Godlevska L. V., Vorobei P. M., Fedun O. M. New data on bats of Volyn oblast // Records of protected animal, plant and fungi species in Ukraine. (Series: «Conservation Biology in Ukraine», Is. 19.). – Kyiv-Chernivtsi: Druk-Art, 2020. – P. 117–121. [In Ukrainian.]

Godlevska L. V., Shpak A. V. Bats in the collection of the Zoological museum of Belarusian State University // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Biological series. – 2020. – 65 (4). – P. 412–420. https://doi.org/10.29235/1029-8940-2020-65-4-412-420

Kruskop, S.V., Godlevska, L., Bucs, S., Coraman, E. & Gazaryan, S. 2020. Myotis daubentonii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85342710A22054773.

Godlevska, L., Kruskop, S.V. & Gazaryan, S. 2020. Eptesicus serotinus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85199559A22115705.

Godlevska, L., Bucs, S., Kruskop, S.V., Gazaryan, S., Benda, P. & Paunovic, M. 2020. Pipistrellus pipistrellus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85333513A22132116.

Gazaryan, S., Kruskop, S.V. & Godlevska, L. 2020. Plecotus auritus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85535522A85535860.

Gazaryan, S., Kruskop, S.V. & Godlevska, L. 2020. Myotis nattereri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85733032A22052584.

Gazaryan, S., Kruskop, S.V. & Godlevska, L. 2020. Myotis brandtii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T85566997A22054468.

Godlevska L. V. Godlevska L.V. Bats of Rivne Nature Reserve: summary of the survey as for 2019 // Nature of Polissia: research and conservation. Materials of scientific-practical conference with international participation, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Nature Reserve “Rivnenskyi” (Sarny, 13-15 June 2019) / Edited by Zhuravchak R.O. – Rivne, 2019. – P. 306-310. [In Ukrainian.]

Godlevska L. V. Godlevska L.V. Bats of Rivne Nature Reserve: summary of the survey as for 2019 // Nature of Polissia: research and conservation. Materials of scientific-practical conference with international participation, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Nature Reserve “Rivnenskyi” (Sarny, 13-15 June 2019) / Edited by Zhuravchak R.O. – Rivne, 2019. – P. 306-310.

Godlevska L., Rebrov S. Bats of the Left-Bank Dnipro Region in the northern part of Ukraine // Theriologia Ukrainica. – 2018. – Vol. 16. – P. 25–50. – >>>

Gol’din P., Godlevska L., Ghazali M. Age-related changes in the teeth of two bats species: dental wear, pulp cavity and dentine growth layers // Acta Chiropterologica. – 2018. – Vol. 2. – P. 519–530. – >>> doi: 10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.2.022

Panchenko P., Godlevska L. Data on the bat fauna of the Northern Black Sea Region based on results of the work of bat contact centres // Theriologia Ukrainica. – 2018. – Vol. 16. – С. 120–126. – >>>

Godlevska O. V. in: Red Data Book of Donetsk Region: Animals. Scientific information guide / Ed. by V. D. Zalevskiy and A. I. Bronskov. – Vinnytsya: PJSC «Vinnytsya Regional Printing House», 2017. – P. 389, 390, 392, 394–401.

Godlevska L. V., Rebrov S. V., Panchenko P. S. New data on bat fauna of Rivne oblast (Ukraine) // Nature conservation. – 2016. – 1(22). – P. 72–77. (In Ukrainian.) >>>

Godlevska L., Buzunko P., Rebrov S., Ghazali M. Underground bat sites of “not-cave” region of Ukraine, on results of 2002–2015 // Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Biology. – 2016. – Is. 71. – P. 178–189. (In Ukrainian.) >>>

Godlevska L. Northward expansion of the winter range of Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Eastern Europe // Mammalia. – 2015. – 79 (3). – P. 315-324. >>>

Godlevska L. Results of the work of the Kyiv bat contact-centre in 2012–2015 // Proceedings of the Theriological School. – 2015. – Vol. 13. – P. 11–19. (In Ukrainian.) >>>

Godlevska L. V., Gol’din P. E. Unusual age structure of the winter aggregation of Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera) in Kiev // Vestnik zoologii. – 2014. – 48 (6). – P. 533–538. >>>

Dulitsky A. I., Godlevskaya E. V., Chirny V. I., Zimnukhov R. A., Goldin E. B., Tovpinets N. N., Evstafiyev I. L. Materials for structuring the local eco-net of the Eastern Crimean based on the theriological data // The nature of the Eastern Crimea. The assessment of biodiversity and development of the local eco-net. – Kiev, 2013. – P. 67–74.

Godlevska L. Recent bats in the collection of the paleontological museum of NMNH, NAS of Ukraine // Zbirnyk prats’ Zoologichnogo museyu. – 2013. – Vol. 44. – P. 145–157. (In Ukrainian.) >>>

Godlevska L. V. New Vespertilio murinus (Chiroptera) winter records. An indication of expansion of the species’ winter range? // Vestnik zoologii. – 2013. – Т. 47, №3. – С. 239-244. >>>

Godlevskaya E. V., Tyshchenko V. N., Ghazali M. A. A first record of Myotis dasycneme (Chiroptera) in the Crimea // Vestnik zoologii. – 2013. – Vol. 47, №1. – P. 38. (In Russian.) >>>

Godlevska L., Ghazali M., Tyshchenko V. Results of the census of cave-dwelling bats in Podolia and Middle Dniester River region (Ukraine) in 2010–2011 // Variability and ecology of mammals. – 2012. – P. 88–97. (Proceedings of the Theriological School, Vol. 11). (In Ukrainian.) >>>

Godlevska L. V. Results of the work of the bat contact-centre (Ukraine) // Scientific Notes of Taurida V. I. Vernadsky National University. – Series: Biology, chemistry. – 2012. – Vol. 25 (64), No 4. – Р. 12-20. (In Russian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevskaya E. V. Expansion of Plecotus austriacus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) range: first records in Kiev Oblast (Ukraine) // Vestnik zoologii. – 2012. – Vol. 46, № 1. – P. 88. >>>

Vlaschenko A.S., Godlevska L.V., Kravchenko К.О., Tyshchenko V.М., Gukasova А.S., Sudakova М.V. Contribution to bat fauna of Holosiyivsky National Nature Park // Nature Reserves in Ukraine. – 2012. – V. 18, № 1-2. – P. 51–58. (In Ukrainian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevska O. V., Ghazali M. A., Tyshchenko V. M., Drebet M. V., Martynjuk V. Ju. Results of the winter bat census in two sites of the Central Podolia (Ukraine) // Vestnik zoologii. – 2011. – 45(1). – P. 81–84. >>>

Godlevskaya E. V., Ghazali M. A., Tyshchenko V. M. Results of the first full-scaled bat census in underground sites of the Continental Black Sea Region of Ukraine // Nature reserves in Ukraine. – 2011. – Vol. 17, issue 1-2. – P. 34-41. >>>

Fauna of Ukraine: conservation categories. Reference book / O. Godlevska, I. Parnikoza, V. Rizun, H. Fesenko, Yu. Kutsokon, I. Zagorodniuk, M. Shevchenko, D. Inozemtseva; eds.: L. Godlevska, H. Fesenko. – The 2nd edition. – Kyiv, 2010. – 80 p. (In Ukrainian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevska O., Ghazali M., Zagorodniuk I., Lina P. Bats and rabies. – Kyiv, 2010. – 16 p. (in Ukrainian). >>>

Godlevska О. V., Tyshchenko V. M., Ghazali M. A. A current status of cave-dwelling bats of Podillya and Middle Dniester River region (Ukraine) // Nature reserves in Ukraine. – 2010. – Vol.16, issue 1. – P. 53-64. (In Ukrainian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevskaya E. V. Bats / in: Molodan G. N., Prikhodko S. A., Tretyakov S. V. et al. Landscapes, growth and animal world of the “Meotida” regional landscape park. – Donetsk: “Noulidzh”, 2010. – P. 84-87. (In Russian.)

Parnikoza I. Ju., Godlevskaya E. V., Zimnukhov R. A. Karalara Steppe: from the regional to the national park // Steppe bulletin. – 2010. – Vol. 30. – P. 23-27. (In Russian.)

Godlevska O. in: Red Book of Ukraine. Animal world / Ed. by I. A. Akimov // Kyiv: Globalconsulting, 2009. (In Ukrainian.)

Godlevskaya E. V., Ghazali M. A., Postawa T. A current state of cave dwelling bat species (Mammalia, Chiroptera) of the Crimea // Vestnik zoologii. – 2009. – Vol. 43, № 3. – P. 253–265. (In Russian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevskaya E. V., Ghazali M. A. New records of bats (Chiroptera) at the territory of Donetsk Region (Ukraine) // Vestnik zoologii. – 2009. – Vol. 43, № 5. – P. 470. (In Russian.) >>>

Godlevskaya E., Panchenko P., Formanjuk O. New data on cave-dwelling bats of Odessa City vicinities // Rare theriofauna and its conservation. – Luhansk, 2008. – P. 93–101. (Proceedings of the Theriological School. Vol. 9.) (In Russian with English summary.)

Tyshchenko V. M., Godlevska O. V. First winter records of Vespertilio murinus and Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera) in Kyiv // Vestnik zoologii. – 2008. – Vol. 42, № 3. – P. 280. (In Ukrainian.) >>>

Godlevskaya E. V. Use of Kiev caves by bats (Chiroptera): hibernation and swarming // Вестник зоологии. – 2007. – Т. 41, № 5. – С. 438–449. >>>

Godlevskaya E., Vishnevskiy D., Atamas N. Synanthropization of fauna: terminological questions. – Fauna in anthropogenic environments. – Luhansk, 2006. – P. 6-13. (Series: Proceedings of the Theriological School, volume 8.) (In Russian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevska O. V., Petrushenko Ya. V., Tyschenko V. M., Zagorodniuk I. V. Winter aggregations of bats in caves of Central Podillya (Ukraine) // Vestnik zoologii. – 2005. – V. 39, № 2. – P. 37–45. (In Ukrainian with English summary.) >>>

Godlevskaya E. V., Kondratenko A. V. Death of bats in window-traps // Plecotus et al. – 2004. – № 7. – P. 97–99. >>>

Zagorodniuk I. V., Godlevska O. V. Bats of tribe Myotini (Mammalia) in the Middle Dnipro Region: species composition, distribution and abundance // Vestnik zoologii. – 2003. – V. 37, № 2. – P. 31–39. (in Ukrainian with English summary)

Petrushenko Ya., Godlevska L., Zagorodniuk I. Investigations of bat communities at the Siversky Donets flood-lands // Visnyk Luganskogo ped. universytetu. — 2002. — V. 45, № 1. — P. 121–124. (in Ukrainian)

Godlevska L. Descriptions of species // Bats of Ukraine and adjacent countries: a guide for field investigations. – Kyiv: Ukrainian Theriological Society, 2001. – P. 85–94. (in Ukrainian) >>>

Zagorodniuk I., Godlewska L. Bats in collections of zoological museums of Ukraine: phenological review of data // Migratsijny status kazhaniv v Ukraini [Migratory status of bats in Ukraine]. Novitates Theriologicae, pars 6. – 2001. – P. 122–156. (in Ukrainian) >>>

Godlevsky L., Tyshchenko V., Negoda V. First records of Pipistrellus kuhlii from Kyiv // Vestnik zoologii. – 2000. – V. 34, № 3. – P. 78. >>>

Zagorodniuk I., Godlevska L. Theriological school 2000: Workshop on identification of bats and localization of their roosts using bat detectors // Vestnik zoologii. – 2000. – Vol. 34, № 6. – P. 119–120. >>>

Abstracts

Godlevska L., Gazaryan S. Revision of Pipistrellus pygmaeus and Pipistrellus pipistrellus distribution and breeding ranges // 6th International Berlin Bat Meeting: The human perspective on bats. 22–24th March 2021. Proceedings. – P. 99–100.

Godlevska L., Shpak A., Savchenko M., Vorobei P., Larchanka A. The ?rst big bat survey in underground sites of Belarus: results // European Bat Research Symposium, EBRS, 2021. Turku, Finland, 4–7 May 2021. – P. 109.

Vorobei P., Savchenko M., Godlevska L. Man-made forests as breeding sites for dendrophilous bat species in steppe regions // European Bat Research Symposium, EBRS, 2021. Turku, Finland, 4–7 May 2021. – P. 28.

Godlevska O. Ecological and economic significance // Polyculture and permaculture. International conference, 01.02.2020. – Kyiv, 2020. – P. 6–9. [In Ukrainian]

Godlevska L. V. Bats of Ukraine: what do we know? // 1st International conference “Bats of Eastern Europe: challenges for conservation”. Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 25–27 October 2018. – P. no.

Godlevska L., Rebrov S. Sex ratio in adults of four migratory bat species within their breeding zone: the predicted and the unexpected // 14th European Bat Research Symposium - EBRS 2017. Abstract book. — Donostia, The Basque Country, 2017. — P. 100.

van Weezep E., Godlevska L. V., Prylutska A. S., Vlaschenko A. S., Lina P. H.C., Kooi E. A. First specific data on the occurrence of EBLV in bats from Ukraine // 4th International Berlin Bat Meeting: Movement Ecology of Bats, Berlin, 13–15 March 2015. – Berlin: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), 2015. – P. 107.

Godlevska E. V., Weezep E. van, Lina P. H. C., Kooi E. A., Zagorodniuk I. V. Heterogeneity of Eptesicus serotinus in (Eastern) Europe // XIIIth European Bat Research Symposium, 1–5 September 2014 Sibenik, Croatia. Book of abstracts. – P. 71.

Godlevska L. Urbanization, two bat species and their winter range // 3rd International Berlin Bat Meeting: Bats in the Antropocene. Berlin, Germany, 1–3 March 2013. – Berlin, 2013. – P. 13.

Godlevska L. Bat research and conservation in Ukraine: a review // Abstracts. 42nd Annual Symposium of the North American Society for Bat Research. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 25–27 October 2012. – 2012. – P. 22.

Godlevska L., Ghazali M., Khokhlova A., Tyshchenko V. Bat key underground sites in the Eastern Crimea, Ukraine: numbers, threats and future // 15th International Bat Research Conference. Prague, 23-27 Aug 2010. Volume of abstracts. – P. 150–151. >>>

Godlevska L., Lina P. Ukraine: workshop “Bats and man: conservation and epidemiological aspects // 2nd International Berlin bat meeting: Bat biology and infectious diseases. Berlin, Germany, 19–21 February 2010. – Berlin, 2010. – P. 99.

Godlevska L. Geoinformational system “Bats of Ukraine” // Abstracts of the XIth European Bat Research Symposium (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 18th - 22nd August 2008). – 2008. – P. 55.

Godlevska L., Khokhlova A. Vespertilio murinus autumn display song in Ukraine // Abstracts of the XIth European Bat Research Symposium (Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 18th - 22nd August 2008). — 2008. — P. 56.

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2019