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Lilia Popova

Cand. Sci., Senior Research Scientist Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine e-mail: liliapopovalilia@gmail.com

Academic Trainings and degrees:

Senior Research Scientist Title (Palaeontology and stratigraphy) 2016. Department of General and Historical Geology of Geological faculty, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University;

PhD 2002. Department of General and Historical Geology of Geological faculty, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Dissertation: “Micromammals fauna of the Dnieper modern channel alluvium”.

BA 1995: Biological faculty of Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University. Vertebrate Zoology.

Teaching:

(1) Paleontology

(2) Methods of paleontological researches

(3) Ecology

(4) Evolution of Biosphere,

(5) Micropaleontology

(6) Palaeozoology (PhD programme at Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology)

International Grants:

• “Evolution of ground squirrels (Spermophilus) and the Late-Mid Quaternary Environment of the Northern Black Sea Area: ground squirrels on the march” (INQUA Project 1501P) (2015, Popova L.V.).

• «Ground squirrels on the march: expansion and speciation in the Quaternary of the Circum-Pontic area and surroundings» (INQUA project 1606P (2016-2019, Popova L. V., Maul L. Ch.).

• Paleontological Society Outreach and Education Grant «Paleosites of the Dnieper Area in the context of the development of local town museums» (2020; Popova L.V., Gol’din P. E., Ridush B. T., Davydenko S. V.).

• “Tooth morphology reveals paleophylogeographic events in Quaternary small mammals (Ukraine)” (the Krzysztof Skubiszewski Foundation, programme "Urgent Aid for the Preservation of the Research Capabilities of Ukraine, Poland), (2022).

• Grant from the Shevchenko Emergency Fund of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the USA (2022).

Research interests:

• Pleistocene palaeoecology

• Evolution of the Pleistocene communities

• Changes of palaeogeographical barriers and species ranges during the Pleistocene

• Evolution and palaeobiogeography of the Pleistocene ground squirrels

• Evolution and palaeobiogeography of the Pleistocene voles

External resources:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5008-8715

ResearcherID: I-2133-2018

Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/1931610/lilia-v-popova/

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lilia_Popova3

Selected Publications:

1. Popova, L. V. (2014). Destiny of Mammoth fauna and the Red Queen phenomenon. Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, (12), 18-30.

2. Popova, L. V. (2015). Small mammal fauna as an evidence of environmental dynamics in the Holocene of Ukrainian area. Quaternary International, 357, 82-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.044.

3. Popova, L. V. (2016). Evolutionary lineage of Spermophilus superciliosus–S. fulvus (Rodentia, Sciuridae) in the Quaternary of the Dnieper area: an ability of a biostratigraphical implication. Quaternary International. 420, 319-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.104.

4. Popova, L. V. (2016). Occlusal Pattern of Cheek Teeth in Extant Spermophilus: A New Approach to the Identification of Species. Journal of Morphology 277 (6). 814-825. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.20537

5. Popova L. V., Maul L. C., Zagorodniuk I. V., Veklych Y. M., Shydlovskiy P. S., Pogodina N. V., Strukova T. V., & Parfitt, S. A. (2019). ‘Good fences make good neighbours’: Concepts and records of range dynamics in 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

6. Popova, L., Lemanik A., Ulbricht A., Nadachowski A. (2021). Expansion, speciation and a change of trophic niche: a case study of the Early Pleistocene ground squirrels Spermophilus polonicus and S.praecox. Historical Biology. 33 (1). 4-18. https:// doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666119.

7. Veklych, Yu.M., Popova, L. V. (2021). Lithologic features of near-surface layers of the Quaternary cover as a key to understanding of environmental constraints for the Quaternary ground squirrel species. Historical Biology. 33 (1). 109-115. https://doi.org 10.1080/08912963.2019.1609956.

8. Popova, L., Nezdolii, Y., Syniavska, I., ...Mironchuk, T., Dzeverin, I. (2022). Spatial and temporal patterns of species replacement in the Middle Pleistocene: а case study of Мicrotus nivaloides Major, 1902 and morphologically related species of the Northern Black Sea and Azov areas. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(7), 1229–1245. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3445

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