Савинецкий

ID SCOPUS: 6507992858

ID ORCID: 0000-0001-5231-6005

 

DATE OF BIRTH:: 09.07.1956

PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow (Russia)

 

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INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION AT THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

33 Leninsky Prospekt

119071, Moscow (Russia)

Tel: р. 8-495-633-1417, 8-915-437-8416

E-mail: arkadybs@rambler.ru

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

2000  – D.Sc.  (Ecology) ‘Secular dynamics of mammals and birds populations on the shore and islands of the Bering Sea in the last millennia’

1990 – Ph.D. (Ecology), thesis ‘Secular dynamics of pasture ecosystems in the central North Caucasus in the last millennia’

1982 – graduation from Moscow State University, faculty of biology, the department of vertebrates zoology

 

APPOINTMENT

1982 – till present – research fellow – head of the Laboratory of Historical Ecology

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Secular dynamics of current ecosystems in the Holocene

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS

2015-2017: – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Marine and land ecosystems in Medieval Climate Optimum and the Little Ice Age’

2012-2014 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Anthropogenic and climatic factors in ecosystem dynamics in the Holocene’

2009-2011 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Reconstructing the history of biocenoses of the Northern hemisphere in the Middle and Late Holocene’

2006-2008 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Anthropogenic and climatic transformation of land ecosystems in Northern Eurasia in the last millennia’

2003-2005 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Laws of secular dynamics of ecosystems in the Palearctic in the Holocene’

2000-2002 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Secular dynamics of game animals numbers in the last millennia’

1997-1999 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Dynamics of sea-shore ecosystems of the Bering Sea in the last millennia’

1994-1995 – grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ‘Dynamics of sea-shore ecosystems of Chukotka peninsula in the last centenaries of the New Era’

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

2015 – E.A. Kuzmicheva, Candidate of Biological Sciences, thesis ‘Dynamics of vegetation and climate of Bale mountains (Ethiopia) over the Holocene’

2013 –   E.N. Gorlova, Candidate of Biological Sciences, thesis ‘Dynamics of game animals of shore ecosystems in Chukotka in the late Holocene’

2013 –  O.A. Krylovich, Candidate of Biological Sciences, thesis  ‘Dynamics of invertebrates fauna of the Commander and Aleutian island chain in the middle and late Holocene (according to archaeological zoological data)’

2012 – Habte Jebessa Debella Ph.D. “Historical Ecology of the Bale Mountains National Park over the Holocene”

2009 –  Zh.A. Antipushina, Candidate of Biological Sciences, thesis ‘Dynamics of invertebrates fauna of the Bering sea in the middle and late Holocene (according to archaeological zoological data)’

2008 –  B.F. Khasaganov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, thesis ‘Wood structure of the common oak (Quercus robur L.) as the evidence of abnormal climatic events (as exemplified in the central part of European Russia)’

2007 –  A.N. Babenko, Candidate of Biological Sciences, thesis ‘Dynamics of the Negev desert (Israel) in the Holocene’

 

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES 

Russian Teriology Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Menzbir Ornithology Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences

 

INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES

2014, Copenhagen (Denmark). Paleoecology of Subarctic Seas Annual Science Meeting Dynamics of Coastal and Island Ecosystems of the Bering Sea Region over the Last Millennia

2013, Kazan (Russia). III Russian Science Conference ‘Dynamics of current ecosystems in the Holocene’

2012, Ethiopia. The dynamics of vegetation and climate of the Bale Mountains over the Holocene. 25 Anniversary of JERBE-III

2012, Seattle. The dynamics of Bering Sea ecosystems over the Holocene. Comparative Ecodynamics in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands: A GHEA synthesis workshop.

2011, Moscow (Russia). International conference ‘Theriofauna of Russia and its neighbours’ IX Congress of Theriology Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ecology and Evolution

2010, Paris. The 11th ICAZ International Conference of ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology) Zoogenic deposits in rock shelters from the Old World (experience for palaeoecological purposes)

2010,  Ekaterinburg (Russia). II Russian Science Conference ‘Dynamics of current ecosystems in the Holocene’

 

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS: 70

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS::

  1. Savinetsky A.B., Khasanov B.F., West D.L., Kiseleva N.K., Krylovich A. Nitrogen Isotope Composition of Peat Samples as a Proxy for Determining Human Colonization of Islands // Arctic Anthropology. 2014; 51(1):78-85.
  2. Krylovich O.A., Savinetsky A.B. Dynamics of fishing by ancient Aleut people at the Adak island (Aleutian Islands, Alaska) in middle and late Holocene. Zoology journal, 2013; 92(9):1117-1128.
  3. Savinetsky A.B., Khrustalev A.V. Paleoparasitological investigations in Mongolia, Middle Asia and Russia // International Journal of Paleopathology. 2013. 3(3):176-181.
  4. Savinetsky A.B., Krylovich O.A., Lisenkova A.A. Birds of the Aleutian Islands in the Holocene. The Dynamics of Current Ecosystems in the Holocene: 3rd Russian Science Conference (with international participation). Kazan, Otechestvo, 2013, 48-51.
  5. Khasanov B.F., Krylovich O.A., Savinetsky A.B. Reservoir effect in the Bering Sea – the scope of regional adjustment of radio-carbon dating of marine organisms. The Dynamics of Current Ecosystems in the Holocene: 3rd Russian Science Conference (with international participation). Kazan, Otechestvo, 2013, 60-63.
  6. Savinetsky A.B., Krylovich O.A. Avia-fauna of the Commander and Aleutian island chain in the middle and late Holocene. Birds Evolution: Taxonomy, Morphology, Ecology and Behaviour. 2013:171-176.
  7. Kuzmicheva E.A., H. Debella B. Khasanov O. Krylovich A. Babenko A. Savinetsky E. Severova S. Yirga. Holocene hyrax dung deposits in the afroalpine belt of the Bale Mountains (Ethiopia) and their palaeoclimatic implication // Environmental Archaeology. 2013; 18(1):72-81
  8. Gorlova E.N., Krylovich O.A., Savinetsky A.B., Khasanov B.F., 2012. Ecology of the ringed seal (Pusa hispida) of the Bering Strait in the late Holocene. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Biology series. 5, 546-553.
  9. Gorlova E.N. , Krylovich O. A. Savinetsky A. B. Khasanov B. F. Ecology of the Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida) from the Bering Strait in the Late Holocene. Biology Bulletin. 2012; 39 (5):464–471.
  10. Savinetsky A.B. and O.A. Krylovich. On the History of the Spread of the Black Rat (Rattus rattus L., 1758) in Northwestern Russia. Biology Bulletin. 2011; 38(2):203-207.
  11. Savinetsky, Arkady B. Anna N. Babenko Habte J. Debella Bulat F. Khasanov Nina K. Kiseleva Olga A. Krylovich Eugenia A. Kuzmicheva Steven Rosen Solomon Yirga. Zoogenic deposits in rock shelters from the Old World (experience for palaeoecological purposes). British Archaeological Reports. International Series S2354. 2012:25-31
  12. Savinetsky Arkady B., Dixie L. West, Zhanna A. Antipushina, Bulat F. Khassanov, Nina K. Kiseleva, Olga A. Krylovich, and Andrei M. Pereladov. 2012. The Reconstruction of Ecosystems History of Adak Island (Aleutian Islands) During the Holocene // The People Before: The Geology, Paleoecology and Archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series. Editors: West, Dixie, Virginia Hatfield, Elizabeth Wilmerding, Christine Lefevre, Lyn Gualtieri. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series. P. 77-107
  13. West Dixie, Zhanna Antipushina, Arkady B. Savinetsky and Olga Krylovich. 2012. Invertebrate Remains: a Pan Aleutian Comparison The People Before: The Geology, Paleoecology and Archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series. Editors: West, Dixie, Virginia Hatfield, Elizabeth Wilmerding, Christine Lefevre, Lyn Gualtieri. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series. P. 177-193
  14. West Dixie, Joan Brenner Coltrain, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Dennis H. O’Rourke, Christine Lefevre, Debra Corbett, Franзoise Bouchet, and Arkady Savinetsky. 2012. A Human Burial from the Andreanof Islands, Alaska. People Before: The Geology, Paleoecology and Archaeology of Adak Island, Alaska. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series. Editors: West, Dixie, Virginia Hatfield, Elizabeth Wilmerding, Christine Lefevre, Lyn Gualtieri. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports International Series. P. 303-316
  15. Savinetsky A.B., Krylovich O.A. To the history of the black rat (Rattus rattus L., 1758) distribution in the north-west of Russia. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Biology series. 2011(2):248-252.
  16. Savinetsky A.B., Kiseleva N. K. Khassanov B. F. Paleoenvironment Holocene Deposits from Shemya Island // The People at the End of the World: The Western Aleutians Project and Archaeology of Shemya Island. 2010:71-82.
  17. Antipushina Zh.A., Kiseleva N.K., Khasanov B.F., Pakhnevich A.V., Krylovich O.A., Sirenko B.I., Savinetsky A.B. 2009. Fauna dynamics of invertebrates of Adak (the Aleutian islands) littoral zone in the late Holocene (according to archeo-zoological data). 40 (2), 140 – 148.
  18. Savinetsky A.B., Krylovich O.A. Paleo-zoological materials and dynamics of game fauna. Archeology of the Russian countryside in the 10th-13th cc: medieval settlements and burial places at the Kubensk lake: in three volumes. Ed. N.A. Makarov. Moscow, Nauka, 2009. 16-24.
  19. Antipushina Zh.A., N. K. Kiseleva B. F. Khassanov A. V. Pakhnevich O. A. Krylovich B. I. Sirenko A. B. Savinetsky. Holocene Dynamics of Invertebrate Fauna in the Littoral Zone of Adak, the Aleutian Islands, According to Archaeozoological Data. Russian Journal of Ecology. 2009; 40(2):128–136
  20. West Dixie, Michael Crawford and Arkady B. Savinetsky. 2007 Genetics, prehistory and the colonisation of the Aleutian Islands // Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 98:47–57
  21. Babenko A.N., Kiseleva N.K., Plakht I., Rozen S., Savinetsky Khasanov B.F. Reconstruction of the vegetation layer in the central part of the Negev desert (Israel) in the Holocene on the basis of spore analysis of zoogenic deposit of Maale-Azmaut cave. 2007, 6, 417–426.
  22. Savinetsky A.B., Kiseleva N.K., Khasanov B.F. Secular dynamics of Palearctics ecosystems. Current global changes in natural environment. Kasimov N.S., Klige R.K., Moscow. Nauchnaya mysl, 2006, 412 – 422.
  23. Ermakov O.A., Titov S.V., Savinetsky A.B., Surin V.L. Zborovsky S.S., Lyapunova E.A., Brandler O.V. Foriozov N.A. 2006 Molecular, genetic and paleoecology arguments in favour of conspecific character of the little ground squirrel (Spermophilus pygmaeus) and the Caucasian mountain ground squirrel (Spermophilus musicus). Zoology Journal.  85 (12), 1474-1483.
  24. Khassanov B.F., Savinetsky A.B. On the Marine Reservoir Effect in the Northern Bering Sea // University of Oregon Anthropological Papers Archaeology in Northeast Asia.. 2006. 65. P. 193-202.
  25. Savinetsky A.B., Kiseleva N.K., Khasanov B.F. Historic Ecology: objects, methods, results, interpretation. Zoology journal. 84. 10. 1188-1201.
  26. Causey, D. Corbett D.G. Lefevre C. West D.L. Savinetsky A.B. Kiseleva N. K. Khassanov B.F. The palaeoenvironment of humans and marine birds of the Aleutian Islands: three millennia of change // Fisheries Oceanography. 2005. 14. s1. P. 259-276
  27. Savinetsky A.B., N. K. Kiseleva B. F. Khassanov. Some problems in historical ecology: objects, methods, results, and interpretation. Entomological Review. 2005; 85(Suppl. 2):S173-S184.4110
  28. Rosen Steven A., Arkady B. Savinetsky, Yosef Plakht, Nina K. Kisseleva, Bulat F. Khassanov, Andrey M. Pereladov and Mordecai Haiman. Dung in the Desert: Preliminary Results of the Negev Holocene Ecology Project // Current Anthropology. 2005. 46. 2. P. 317-327
  29. Savinetsky A.B., Kiseleva N.K., Khassanov B.F. Dynamics of sea mammal and bird populations of the Bering Sea region over the last several millennia // Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2004. 209. 1-4. P. 335-352
  30. Savinetsky A.B., Khasanov B.F. Dynamics of whale hunting by ancient Eskimos in Chukotka (based on calibrated radio-carbon data). Opus: Interdisciplinary research in archeology. 2004, 3, 190-196.
  31. Dinesman, L.G., Savinetsky A.B. Secular Dynamics of the Prehistoric Catch and Population Size of Baleen Whales off the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia // Indigenous Ways to the Present: Native Whaling in the Western Arctic. Ed.: A. McCartney. Studies in Whaling No. 6; Occ. Publ. No. 54. 2003. P. 137-166
  32. Kiseleva N.K., Savinetsky A.B., Khasanov B.F. Development of nature processes in the west of the Aleutian islands in the Holocene. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Geography Series, 1, 2002, 97-103.
  33. Savinetsky A.B. Mammals and birds harvested by early Eskimos of Bering Strait. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers, v. 59. 2002. p. 275-305.
  34. Savinetsky A.B. 2000. History of man-wild animals relations in the mountains of North Ossetia. Fauna of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Vladikavkaz, Project-Press. 24-32.
  35. Dinesman L.G., Savinetsky A.B., 2000. Influence of pasture digression of steppes on mammals of the Russian Plain. Zoology Journal. 79, 4. 388-396.
  36. Savinetsky A.B., Ptashinsky A.V. 1999. Game animals of ancient residents of Kamchatka. Biology and Preservation of Kamchatka birds. 109-111.
  37. West D., Lefevre C., Corbett D.G., Savinetsky A. 1999. Radiocarbon dates for the Near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska // Current Research in Pleistocene. V. 16. P. 83-85.
  38. Savinetsky A.B. 1998. Ornithology studies in East Chukotka region. Modern Ornithology. Moscow, Nauka. 134-138.
  39. Dinesman L.G., Savinetsky A.B., 1997. Historical monitoring of taxonomy diversity of ecosystems. Biodiversity Monitoring. Moscow, 100-104.
  40. Kiseleva N.K., Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B., Khasanov B.F. 1996. Uelen peatbog in the south-east of Chukchi Peninsula in the mid-Holocene. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Geography Series, 3, 170-180.
  41. Dinesman L.G., Kiseleva N.K., Savinetsky A.B., Khasanov B.F. 1996. Secular dynamics of littoral ecosystems of the north-east of the Chukotka Peninsula. Moscow, 1-189.
  42. Savinetsky A.B., Shilova S.A. 1995. Dynamics of steppe eagle (Aquia rapax) population in Kalmykia. Zoology Journal, 74 (9), 796-797.
  43. Dinesman L.G., Kiseleva N.K., Savinetsky A.B., Khassanov B.F.1999. Secular dynamics of coastal zone of north-east Chukotka Tubingen: Mo Vence Verlag. 209.
  44. Buyanovsky A.I., Savinetsky A.B. 1995. Molluscs from ancient Eskimo settlements of the Bering Strait shores. Zoology Journal. 74 (6), 44 – 51.
  45. Savinetsky A.B. 1995. Birds from the cultural layers of Dezhnev settlement (Chukotka) of the Eskimo people. Proceedings of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, 2 33-39
  46. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. 1995. Ancient Escimo whale hunting on the shore of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Strait. Proceedings of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. 100 (3), 22-33.
  47. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. 1994. To the history of the distribution of mountain hare in the south of European Russia. Zoology Journal. 73 (10), 143.
  48. Khrustalev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. 1992 Findings of helminth eggs in fossil animal faeces. Helminthology, 6, 122-129.
  49. Savinetsky A.B., Knyazev A.V. , Kvavadze E.V. 1992. Interpretation of spore-pollen spectre of animal faeces. Historical Ecology of Wild and Domestic Undulates. Moscow, 4-24.
  50. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. , Gey N.A. 1992. History of the vegetation layer in North Ossetia in the Holocene. Historical Ecology of wild and domestic undulates. Moscow, 84-108.
  51. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. 1992. Studying the fossil faeces of undulates in North Ossetia. Historical Ecology of Wild and Domestic Undulates. Moscow, 147-164.
  52. Savinetsky A.B. 1992. Secular dynamics of pasture ecosystems in the central North Caucasus in the last millennia. Historical ecology of wild and domesticated undulates. Moscow, 165-171.
  53. Savinetsky A.B. 1992. Secular dynamics of sea cows population in the late Holocene. Lectures of the Academy of Sciences. 326 (3) 570-572.
  54. Siegel-Causey D., Lefevre C., Savinetskii A.B. 1991. Historical diversity of cormorants and shags from Amchitka Island, Alaska // Condor. V. 93. P. 840-852.
  55. Savinetsky A.B., Khrustalev, A.V. 1991. Helminthological methods for the studies of fossil vertebrate dung // Current Research of Pleistocene. № 8. Р. 76-78.
  56. Savinetsky A.B., Khrustalev A.V. 1990. Helminthology analysis of fossil faeces of animals for paleontology studies. Ecology, 3, 83-84.
  57. Savinetsky A.B., Knyazev A.V. 1990. The use of fossil egg shells for the characteristics of the paleoclimate. Paleontology Journal. 132-134.
  58. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B., Sokolovskaya V.T., Smirnova S.A. 1989. Small mammals of Khongoryn Els (Mongolia) in the last 1.5 millennia. Zoology Journal. 68 (1), 100-110.
  59. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. 1988. Changes in the population of small mammals of Tsagaan Bogd hills (Gobi) in late Holocene. Zoology Journal. 67 (2), 297-300.
  60. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B. 1987. To the history of small mammals populations of desert steppes in Mongolia in the Holocene. Zoology Journal. 66 (2), 279-287.
  61. Knyazev A.V., Savinetsky A.B., Sokolovskaya V.T. 1986. Dynamics of herbivore mammals of the Gobi in Mongolia in middle and late Holocene. Zoology Journal, 65 (2), 247-258.
  62. Savinetsky A.B., Shilova S.A. 1986. Some behaviour and nesting stereotypes of steppe eagle. Biological Sciences, 6, 37-42.
  63. Savinetsky A.B., Sokolovskaya V.T. 1984. Forming pollen spectre of pika (р. Ochotona) faeces. Studying the history of current biocenoses. Moscow,  Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals. 24-28.