Dilian Georgiev GEORGIEV

PUBLICATIONS

1. Irikov A., D. Georgiev, 2002. Species composition, habitat distribution, zoogeographic structure and origin of the malacofauna of Stara Zagora. - Trav. Sci. Univ. Plovdiv, Animalia, 38 (6): 5-16. (In Bulgarian) [PDF - full text]

2. Georgiev D., 2003. A report of Mesocricetus newtoni (Mammalia: Cricetidae) from South-Eastern Bulgaria. - Trav. Sci. Univ. Plovdiv, Animalia, 39 (6): 107-110. [PDF - full text]

3. Marin S., I. Ivanov, D. Georgiev, Z. Boev, 2004. On the food of the Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca on Sakar Mountain and Dervent Heights, Bulgaria. Raptors Worldwide, WWGBP/MME, 589-592. [PDF - full text]

4. Irikov A., D. Georgiev, A. Riedel, 2004. A new species of the genus Vitrea Fitzinger, 1833 from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Zonitidae). - Folia Malacologica, 12 (2): 79-81. [PDF - full text]

5. Georgiev D., 2004. Materials on the diet of the otter (Lutra lutra L., 1758) in Bulgaria. - Trav. Sci. Univ. Plovdiv, Animalia, 40(6): 165-172. (In Bulgarian) [PDF - full text]

6. Georgiev D., 2004. Conservation status of the small mammals (Mammalia: Insectivora, Lagomorpha, Rodentia) in Sakar Mountain (South-eastern Bulgaria). - Trav. Sci. Univ. Plovdiv, Animalia, 40(6): 153-164. [PDF - full text]

7. Georgiev D., 2005. Species diversity and habitat distribution of the Malacofauna (Mollusca: Bivalvia, Gastropoda) of Surnena Sredna Gora Mountain (Southern Bulgaria). - In: Gruev B., M. Nikolova, A. Donev (Eds.), Balkan Scientific Conference of Biology, Proceedings, 19-21 May, Plovdiv, Bulgaria: 428-435. [PDF - full text]

8. Georgiev D. 2005. Habitats of the Otter (Lutra lutra L.) in some Regions of Southern Bulgaria. - IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 18(1): 6 - 13. [PDF - full text]

9. Georgiev D. 2005. The mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda et Bivalvia) of Sakar Mountain (Southern Bulgaria): A Faunal Research. - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 41: 5-12 [PDF - full text]

10. Georgiev D. 2005. Food niche of Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) and Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769) (Aves: Strigiformes) co-existing in one region of the upper  Tracian Valley (South Bulgaria). - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 41: 115-122 [PDF - full text]

11. Tilova, E., D. Georgiev, I. Ivanov, I. Stoev, 2005. Ornitofauna of the Nikolaevo fish-breeding pond. - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 41: 123-134 [PDF - full text]

12. Tilova E., S. Stoycheva, D. Georgiev. 2005. New information on the distribution of some bat species (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Bulgaria. - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 41: 135-144 [PDF - full text]

13. Stoycheva S., D. Georgiev. 2005. A report of Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822) (Mammalia: Soricidae) from Western Upper Tracian Valley, Bulgaria. - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 41: 145-148 [PDF - full text]

14. Georgiev D. 2006. Diet of the Otter Lutra lutra in Different Habitats of South-Eastern Bulgaria. - IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 23 (1): 4 - 10. [PDF - full text]

15. Georgiev D., S. Stoycheva. 2006. Freshwater Crabs Preyed on by the Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra in a River Habitat in Southern Bulgaria. - Hystrix It. J. Mamm. (n.s.), 17(2): 129-135. [PDF - full text]

16. Georgiev D., S. Stoycheva. 2006. Habitats, Distribution and Population Density Otter Survey in the Western Rhodopes Mountains (Southern Bulgaria). - IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull., 23 (1): 35 - 43. [PDF - full text]

17. Georgiev D. 2006. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Malacofauna of Sveti Iliiski Heights (South-Eastern Bulgaria). - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 42: 13-20. [PDF - full text]

18. Georgiev D. 2006. Two New Species from the Family Succineidae (Beck, 1837) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) to the Bulgarian Fauna. - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 42: 7-11. [PDF - full text]

19. Georgiev D., S. Stoycheva. 2006. Flight Activity of Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774) (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Close to their Winter Colonies in a Town Area of Southern Bulgaria. - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 42: 161-166. [PDF - full text]

20. Georgiev D. 2006. The Fish Species Participation in Otters' (Lutra lutra) Diet in Maritza River West of Plovdiv Town (Southern Bulgaria). - Scientific Studies of the University of Plovdiv, Biology, Animalia, 42: 153-159. [PDF - full text]

21. Mollov I., G. Popgeorgiev, B. Naumov, D. Georgiev. 2007. New distributional data about the eastern spadefoot (Pelobates syriacus balcanicus Karaman, 1928) in Bulgaria. - Scientific researches of the Union of Scientists - Plovdiv, Series B. Natural Sciences and the Humanities, Vol. VIII. ISSN 1311-9192, Technics, Technologies, Natural Sciences and Humanities Session, 26 October 2006, pp. 132-136 (In Bulgarian) [PDF - full text].

22. Georgiev D. 2007. Study on the Home Range of the Resident Female Otter (Lutra lutra), (Carnivora, Mammalia) in South-East Bulgaria. - Acta zool. bulg., 59 (2), 2007: 165-172. [PDF - full text]

23. Georgiev D., S. Stoycheva. 2007. A new record of Soosia diodonta (Férussac, 1821) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helicodontidae) in Bulgaria. - Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 6: 35–37. [PDF - full text]

24. Georgiev D. 2007. Otters (Lutra lutra L.) mortalities in Southern Bulgaria - A case study. - IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull., 24 (1): 36 - 40. [PDF - full text]

25. Georgiev D., S. Stoycheva. 2008. A record of Bythinella cf. opaca (Gallenstein 1848) (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae) in Bulgaria. - Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 6: 35–37. [PDF - full text]

26. Georgiev D. 2008. Size of Marsh Frogs in the diet of the Eurasian Otter in Southern Bulgaria. - Hystrix It. J. Mamm. (n.s.), 19(1): 55-59. [PDF - full text]

27. Irikov A., D. Georgiev. 2008. A review of the Agardhiella species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Argnidae) in Bulgaria. - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 60(2): 135–141. [PDF - full text]

28. Irikov A., D. Georgiev. 2008. The New Zealand Mud Snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) – a New Invader Species in the Bulgarian Fauna. - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 60(2): 205–207. [PDF - full text]

29. Tilova E., S. Stoycheva, E. Kmetova, N. Nedyalkov, D. Georgiev. 2008. Discovery of a big hibernacula of Noctule bats, Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in the town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. - Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 19: 129-136. [PDF - full text]

30. Georgiev D. 2008. Habitat Distribution of the Land Snails in One Village Area of the Upper Thracian Valley (Bulgaria). - In: Velcheva I., A. Tsekov (Eds.). Anniversary Scientific Conference of Ecology, Proceedings, 1 November 2008, Plovdiv, p. 147-151. [PDF - full text]

31. Georgiev D. 2008. Diet Composition of the Eurasian Otter and Co-existing Grey Heron in a Fish Farm during the Spring-Summer Season in Bulgaria. - In: Velcheva I., A. Tsekov (Eds.). Anniversary Scientific Conference of Ecology, Proceedings, 1 November 2008, Plovdiv, p. 194-199. [PDF - full text]

32. Georgiev D. 2008. Seasonality in Marking Activity of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) in Southern Bulgaria. - In: Velcheva I., A. Tsekov (Eds.). Anniversary Scientific Conference of Ecology, Proceedings, 1 November 2008, Plovdiv, p. 236-240. [PDF - full text]

33. Stoycheva S., D. Georgiev, I. Velcheva. 2008. Feeding Activity of Three Bat Species (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Urban Habitats of Upper Thracian Valley (Bulgaria). - In: Velcheva I., A. Tsekov (Eds.). Anniversary Scientific Conference of Ecology, Proceedings, 1 November 2008, Plovdiv, p. 538-542. [PDF - full text]

34. Georgiev D., S. Stoycheva. 2009. The molluscs and their habitats in Sashtinska Sredna Gora Mts. (Southern Bulgaria). – Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 8: 1–8. [PDF - full text]

35. Georgiev D. 2009. Eurasian Otters In Micro Dams Of Southern Bulgaria: Where To Place The Monitoring Zones? - IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 26 (1): 5 - 9  [PDF - full text]

36. Georgiev D.,  S. Stoycheva. 2009. Late Miocene Molluscs from the North Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria  - The Malacologist, 52: 18-19  [PDF - full text]

37. Georgiev D., D. Kostov, D. Vladova. 2009. Molluscs (Mollusca: Gastropoda, Bivalvia) from the Azmashka Mound, Upper Trakia Plain, South Bulgaria. - Trakia Journal of Sciences, 7(2): 74-79 [PDF - full text].

38. Mollov I., D. Georgiev, B. Todorova, S. Stoycheva, I. Velcheva, B. Nikolov. 2009. A Review of the Influence of the Urbanization on the Vertebrate Fauna of the City of Plovdiv. - Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 23(2 Special Edition): 242-245 [PDF - Full text].

39. Glöer P., D. Georgiev. 2009. New Rissooidea from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Rissooidea). – Mollusca, 27(2): 123-136 [PDF - Full text].

40. Georgiev. D. 2009. Bythinella gloeeri n. sp. – A New Cave Inhabiting Species from Bulgaria (Gastropoda: Risooidea: Hydrobiidae). - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 61(3): 223-227 [PDF - Full text].

41. Georgiev. D., E. Raychev. 2009. A record of Horned viper Vipera ammodytes (L.) in the diet of the Stone marten Martes foina (Erxl.). - ZooNotes, 5: 1-2 [PDF - Full text].

42. Deleva S., D. Georgiev. 2009. Data on the Environmental Conditions and Diversity of the Animal Ecological Groups in Gargina Dupka Cave. - Ecologia Balkanica, 1: 1-4 [PDF - Full text].

43. Nikolov B., S. Salapatiyska, D. Georgiev. 2009. A Study of the Survival and Oxygen Deficiency at the Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) Treated with Zinc (Zn). - Ecologia Balkanica, 1: 5-8 [PDF - Full text].

44. Zhelev P., G. Gradev, I. Ivanov, D. Georgiev. 2009. Data on the Trophic Spectrum of Young Imperial Eagles (Aquila heliaca Savigny, 1809) in South Bulgaria. - Ecologia Balkanica, 1: 51-58 [PDF - Full text].

45. Vasileva S., D. Georgiev, G. Gecheva. 2009. Aquatic Macrophytes as Microhabitats of Radix auricularia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): A Case Study from Southeast Bulgaria. - Ecologia Balkanica, 1: 91-94 [PDF - Full text].

46. Georgiev D. 2009. Diet of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) (Aves: Accipitridae) in Sarnena Sredna Gora Mountains (Bulgaria). - Ecologia Balkanica, 1: 95-98 [PDF - Full text].

47. Georgiev D. 2009. On the Fruit Consumption of Eurasian Badger (Meles meles) (Mammalia: Mustelidae) during the Autumn Season in Sredna Gora Mountains (Bulgaria). - Ecologia Balkanica, 1: 99-101 [PDF - Full text].

48. Stoycheva S., D. Georgiev, I. Pandourski, E. Tilova. 2009. Bat diversity in two large towns of the Upper Thrace, Bulgaria (Chiroptera). - Lynx, n. s. (Praha), 40: 83-93 [PDF - Full text].

49. Georgiev. D.,  L. Yankov, S. Stoycheva, S. Deleva, P. Zhelev, A. Pavlova, M. Zagorska. 2009. New localities of Quaternary fossil Bears (Ursus sp. L.) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Ursidae). - ZooNotes, 8: 1-4 [PDF - Full text].

50. Georgiev. D.,  S. Stoycheva. 2010. Notes on the ecology and species diversity of the inland molluscs of Samothraki Island (North-Eastern Greece). - North-Western Journal of Zoology, 6(1): 71-78 [PDF - Full text].

51. Georgiev. D. 2010. Species Composition, Numbers and Influence of Predatory Mammals on Breeding Waterbirds in Protected Area „Pomorie Lake“. - In: Radev R., G. Heebaum, T. Michev, L. Profirov, Proceedings of the Integrated Management Plan for Protected Area "Pomorie Lake" BG0000152 and Protected Area "Pomorie" BG0000620, Green Balkans, Plovdiv, pp. 141-144 [PDF - Full text].

52. Georgiev. D. 2010. Mammals (Mammalia) in „Pomorie Lake“ Protected Site. Taxonomic Diversity, Distribution, and Status of Species. - In: Radev R., G. Heebaum, T. Michev, L. Profirov, Proceedings of the Integrated Management Plan for Protected Area "Pomorie Lake" BG0000152 and Protected Area "Pomorie" BG0000620, Green Balkans, Plovdiv, pp. 145-151 [PDF - Full text].

53. Georgiev. D. S. Stoycheva 2010. New late-Pleistocene Locality of Capra ibex L. (Mammalia: Bovidae) in Bulgaria. - ZooNotes, 14: 1-4 (In Bulgarian) [PDF - Full text].

54. Georgiev. D. 2011. A New Species of Belgrandiella (Wagner 1927) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Caves in Northern Bulgaria. - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 63(1): 7-10 [PDF - Full text].

55. Georgiev. D. 2011. Two New Species of a New Genus Devetakia gen. n. (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from the Caves of Devetashko Plateau, North Bulgaria. - Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 63(1): 11-15 [PDF - Full text].

56. Georgiev. D. 2011. New localities of four Bulgarian endemic Hydrobiidae species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Risooidea). - ZooNotes, 16: 1-4 [PDF - Full text].

57. Georgiev. D. 2011. New species of snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Risooidea) from cave waters of Bulgaria. - Bul. Shk., Ser. Shk. Nat., 61: 83-96 [PDF - Full text].

58. Georgiev. D., S. Stoycheva. 2011. A new spring-snail species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Risooidea) from Stara Planina Mountain, Bulgaria. - Bul. Shk., Ser. Shk. Nat., 61: 97-100 [PDF - Full text].

59. Vasileva S., D. Georgiev, G. Gecheva. 2011. On the Communities of Freshwater Gastropods on Aquatic Macrophytes in Some Water Basins of Southern Bulgaria. - Ecologia Balkanica, 3(1): 11-17 [PDF - Full text].

60. Dudin G., D. Georgiev, S. Stoycheva. 2011. Recent Vertebrate Animal Bones (Animalia: Vertebrata) from Yubileyna Cave (Rhodopes Mountain, South Bulgaria). - Ecologia Balkanica, 3(1): 107-109 [PDF - Full text].

61. Glöer P., D. Georgiev. 2011. Bulgaria, a hot spot of biodiversity (Gastropoda: Rissooidea)?. - Journal of Conchology, 40(5): 1-16 [PDF - Full text].

62. Georgiev. D. 2011. Check list of the Bulgarian minor freshwater snails (Gastropoda: Risooidea) with some ecological and zoogeographical notes. - ZooNotes, 24: 1-4 [PDF - Full text].

63. Schneppat U., D. Georgiev, I. Dedov, G. Wondrak, F. Knechtle. 2011. Tandonia totevi (Wiktor, 1975) (Pulmonata: Milacidae) in Bulgaria and North Eastern Greece. Redescription. – Folia Malacologica, 19(4): 225-248. [PDF - Full text].

64. Klimentova I., D. Plachyiski, D. Georgiev. 2011. Preliminary Information on the Vertebrate Fauna (Animalia: Vertebrata) of the NATURA2000 Site “Rice Fields Tsalapitsa” (Bulgaria). - Ecologia Balkanica, 3(2): 57-60. [PDF - Full text].

65. Schniebs K., P. Glöer, D. Georgiev, A. Hundsdoerfer. 2011. First record of Stagnicola montenegrinus Glöer & Pešić, 2009 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) in Bulgaria and its taxonomic relationship to other European lymnaeids based on molecular analysis. - North-Western Journal of Zoology, 8(1): 164-171. [PDF - Full text].

66. Falniowski A., M. Szarowska, P. Glöer, V. Pešić, D. Georgiev, M. Horsák, I. Sirbu. 2011. Radiation in Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissooidea) in the Balkans. - Folia Malakologica, 20(1): 1-10. [PDF - Full text].

PUBLICATIONS IN NEWSLETTERS

1. Georgiev. D. 2010. In Search of the Thermal Springs Species Bithynia rumelica and Melanopsis parreyssi in Bulgaria. - Tentacle, 18: 16-17 [PDF - Full text].

BOOKS

1. Dimitar Nankinov, Aleksandar Dutsov, Boris Nikolov, Borislav Borisov, Georgy Stoyanov, Gradimir Gradev, Dilyan Georgiev, Dimitar Popov, Dobromir Domuschiev, Doncho Kirov, Elena Tilova, Ivailo Nikolov, Ivelin Ivanov, Konstantin Dichev, Konstantin Popov, Nikolai Karaivanov, Nikolai Todorov, Petar Shurulinkov, Radoslav Stanchev, Rosen Aleksov, Rosen Tzonev, Simeon Marin, Stefan Staikov, Stoyan Nikolov, Svetla Dalakchieva, Svetlan Ivanov, Hristo Nikolov. 2004. Breeding totals of the ornithofauna in Bulgaria, Published by Green Balkans, Plovdiv, 32 pp. [PDF - full text]

2. Velcheva I., A. Tsekov, A. Irikov, B. Temelkov, G. Gecheva, I. Mollov, D. Georgiev. 2008. Guidance for Laboratory and Field Exercises of Ecology. University of Plovdiv Publishing House, Plovdiv. 155 p. (In Bulgarian).

3. Georgiev D., I Velcheva, G. Gecheva, S. Petrova, I. Mollov, 2011. Contamination of waters and its impact on the ecosystems. University of Plovdiv Publishing House, Plovdiv. 155 p. (In Bulgarian). 

THESES

1. Georgiev D. 2003. Terrestrial malacofauna of Stara Zagora Town and its surrounding areas. MSc Thesis, University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, 110 p. (In Bulgarian) [PDF - full text]

2. Georgiev D. 2008. Ecological monitoring study of the otter (Lutra lutra L.) in the catchments of Tundzha and Maritsa Rivers. PhD Thesis, University of Plovdiv, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, 200 p. (In Bulgarian)

PROJECTS

Participation in “Green Balkans” conservation projects with various activities (chosen examples):

1. Designation of Western Rhodopes Nature Park. Development for Sustainable Rural Development of Western Rhodopes.
2. Voluntary work in “Wildlife Rehabilitation Center” in Stara Zagora town.
3. Conservation of the threatened Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) in Bulgaria.
4. Conservation of the herons (Nycticorax nycticorax, Egretta garzetta, Ardeola ralloides, Ardea cinerea, and others) and pygmy cormorants (Phalacrocorax pygmaeus) nesting in Southern Bulgaria.
5. Annual mid winter census of the birds in wetlands.
6. Conservation, recreation and sustainable development of “Pomoriisko Ezero” protected area.
7. Study on the birds of the Bulgarian sector of Danube River.

Participation in projects of other NGO-s:

1. Census of the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) in Bulgaria, project of “Balkani”
2. Study on the otter (Lutra lutra) in Dospat region, project of “BSBP”.

Participation in projects as an expert: 

1. Preliminary study for base information needed for building Natura 2000 network in Bulgaria: “Green Balkans” teams “Birds” and “Mammals”, official respondent for some Natura 2000 sites.
2. Study on the mammal diversity with speciel focus on otter (Lutra lutra) of some areas adjacent to Rusenski Lom Natural Park.
3. Investigation of the mammals in the protected area “Uzana” and Natural Park “Balgarka”.
4. Investigation of the mammals in the protected area “Martvitzata” aimed on development of a management plan for it.
5. Investigation of the mammals in the municipality of Assenovgrad.
6. Investigation of the reptiles, amphibians and mammals in the protected area “Pomoriisko Ezero”.
7. Study of the otter (Lutra lutra) population in Western Rhodopes Mountain.
8. “Naturregio”-project: lecture courses in Sofia city.

CONFERENCES 

1. Imperial Eagle Workshop. The World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls. Hungary, 2003.
2.  Balkan Scientific conference of Biology, 2005.
3. Scientific researches of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria – Plovdiv, Series B. Natural Sciences and the Humanities, Vol. VIII. “Technics, Technologies, Natural Sciences and Humanities” Session, 2006.
4. European Otter Workshop, Slovenia, Morawske Toplice, October-2008
5. Anniversary Scientific Conference of Ecology, University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1 November 2008

PHOTO GALLERY

Greece, Samothraki Fengari Mnt.

Romania, Karpati Mnt.

                                                        Cave "Novata" (Western Rhodopes Mts.)                                                                         Cave "Mazeto" (Stara Planina Mt.)

                                                                               Cave "Jubileina"                                                                                   Plovdiv - Bat study

Slovenia - European Otter Workshop, 2008

Expedition in Asia Minor, 2009

Last updated: 07-03-2012