I'm working on a small project exploring the potential for coordinating the management and research of wolves in the Southern Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) and want, first to get an idea of the current situation. I'm looking for paper/articles/chapters on the subject spanning the past 30 years or so (both Soviet and post-Soviet eras). Also, if you are currently working on wolf management in any of these countries, I'd like to hear from you.
A couple useful genetic studies and a link to a very old document summarizing the situation of wolves in the USSR
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Danilo
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/105/3/345.full
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0093828
http://wolfology1.tripod.com/id158.htm
Dear Gareth,
As far as I know, there are not many things published on that topic in Central Asia, and of course only in Russian.
you have that book chapter in English, a bit more recent than the 1970 one: Bibikov, D.I. (1982) ‘‘Wolf Ecology and Management in the USSR’’, in F.H. Harrington and P.C. Paquet (eds) Wolves of the World. Perspectives of Behavior, Ecology and Conservation, pp. 120–33. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes.
I got a copy of Vyrypaev & Vorobjev book on wolves in Kyrgyzstan:
Vyrypajev VA, Vorobjev GG. 1983. Volk v Kirgizii. Frunze: Ilim. 94 p.
However I would be cautious in using it since I detected some mistakes in the tables they give inside.
I published two papers about human-wolves relationships in Kyrgyzstan (they are available on RG, and you may find something in the references...), as well as a PhD in French. If you have any question about that specific topic, you are welcome to contact me!
Nicolas
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