Ivan Franko National University of Lviv V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Institute of Ecology of Carpathians of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine State Museum of Natural History of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oles Honchar Dnipro National University Shatskyi National Nature Park Pomeranian University in Slupsk

12-15 September 2019 International Zoological Conference «UKRAINIAN FAUNA ON THE VERGE OF XX-XXI CENTURY. STATUS AND BIODIVERSITY OF ECOSYSTEMS OF PROTECTED AREAS», dedicated to the 220 birthday anniversary of A. Zawadzki will be held on the basis of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Organizing Committee Chairman Gladyshevskii Roman, Corresponding Member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Chemistry, Professor, Vice-rector for Science of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Vice-chairmens Akimov Ihor, Corresponding Member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Director of I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Osadowski Zbigniew, Associate Professor, Rector of Pomeranian University in Slupsk; Tsaryk Yosyf, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Head of the Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Tokarskyi Viktor, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Head of the Department of Zoology and Ecology of Animals of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; Kozlovskyi Mykola, Corresponding Member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Biology, Senior Research Officer, Director of Institute of Ecology of Carpathians of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Pakhomov Oleksandr, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Head of the Department of Zoology and Ecology of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University; Shabanov Dmytro, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Department of Zoology and Ecology of Animals of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; Yanytskyi Taras, PhD, Director of State Museum of Natural History of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Khamar Ihor, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Dean of the Faculty of Biology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Khrystetska Mariia, Director of Shatskyi National Nature Park.

Executive secretary Nazaruk Kateryna, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, phone: +380 32 239-42-85.

Secretaries Tymkiv Iryna, Assistant, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, phone: +380 67-344-18-70; Koltun Iryna, Assistant, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, phone: +380 93-54-54-201.

Members of organizing committee Astel Aleksander, Associate Professor, Vice-rector for Science of Pomeranian University in Slupsk; Dykyy Ihor, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Ivanets Oleh, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Shydlovskyy Ihor, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Reshetylo Ostap, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Aleksandrovych Oleh, Associate Professor, Director of the Institute of Biology and Environmental Protection of Pomeranian University in Slupsk; Hnatyna Oksana, PhD, Assistant, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Chernobai Yurii, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Senior Research Officer, State Museum of Natural History of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kaprus Ihor, Doctor of Biology, Professor, Head of the Division of Biosystematics and Evolution of State Museum of Natural History of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Bokotey Andriy, PhD, Senior Research Officer, Head of the Division of Landscape and Biotic Diversity of State Museum of Natural History of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Tkachenko Halyna, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology and Animals Physiology of Pomeranian University in Slupsk; Liesnik Volodymyr, Assistant, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Mateichyk Vasyl, Vice-director for Science of Shatskyi National Nature Park. .

Volunteers Andriyishyn Bohdan, PhD Student, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Zahorodnyi Ivan, PhD Student, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Martsiv Mariya, PhD Student, Department of Zoology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Scientists, lecturers, PhD students and students who work in different branches of zoology and ecology are welcome to participate in the Conference. Presentation types: 1) oral report on the plenary section, 2) sectional oral report, 3) poster presentation.

The official languages of the conference are Ukrainian and English. The conference will be held within such sections: - systematics, morphology and phylogeny of animals; - zoogeography, faunistics and animals invasion; - ethology; - biodiversity of protected areas; - biodiversity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; - museology, museum collections.

Materials of the Conference will be published as a Book of Abstracts, which also will be published in electronic form on the site of the Faculty of Biology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. We are planning to publish a separate volume of “Visnyk of Lviv University. Biological Series” on the basis of the Conference materials as well.

Plenary section of the Conference will be held at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; rest of the sections will be held on the territory of Shatsk Bio-geographical station (Volyn region, Shatsk district, Hayivka village, north side of Pisochne Lake). Сonference participants will be accommodated in rooms of the station and will be provided with three meals a day, the cost of which will be appropriate to the food prices in September 2019.

For participation in the Conference it is necessary to register until March 31, 2019 and send application on email: [email protected] (link to online application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VUui7QgM83ihgWJFTVf5JCouFNDnR4sG qvEAkxv5_ak/edit ).

Important dates of the Conference:

31.03.2019 — the last day for the registration; 30.06.2019 — the last day for abstracts acceptance; 12-15.09.2019 — the Conference days.

Detailed abstract requirements and the conference fee details will be covered in the second information announcement in April 2019.

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