Prof. Dr. Zaal Kikvidze
Professor of Ilia State University, Georgia
E-mail: zaal.kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge
Webpage: http://faculty.iliauni.edu.ge/en/avada_portfolio/zaal-kikvidze/
EDUCATION
1973-1978 Diploma (Master) Biology, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
1978-1983 Candidate of Sciences (PhD) Biology, Biochemistry, Georgian Academy of Sciences
1983-1993 Dr.Sci (Habilitation) Biology, Botany, Georgian Academy of Sciences
RESEARCH FOCUS
Biodiversity description and analysis
Geographical distributions
Community ecology
Socio-ecology
Ethnobiology
WORK EXPERIENCE
1978-1986 Researcher, Inst.P hysiology, Georgian Acad. Sci.
1987-1998 Principal Researcher, Inst. Botany, Georgian Acad. Sci
1998-2003 Research Associate, Dept. Biology, Chiba University, Japan
2003-2007 R-y-C Fellow, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, CSIC, Spain
2007-2012 Associated Professor, Inst. Natural Environment, Univ.Tokyo, Japan
2012-present Tenured professor, Inst. Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi Georgia
Participation in research projects (over the last 5 years)
2017 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for economic botany.Bragança, Portugal Traditional knowledge in the Caucasus: changing knowledge patterns in Georgia after the end of Soviet occupation
2020 Ethnobiology of Georgia Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation Grant SP-19-275.
PUBLICATIONS
For a list of my peer-reviewed publications contains 299 titles according to Google Scholar. Citations and h-index values see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R9sCM7IAAAAJ&hl=es
Selected publications of 2020-2021
Hengky, S.H. and Kikvidze, Z., 2021. Sustainable Coastal Tourism in Tanjung Kelayang, Indonesia. Tourism Planning & Development, 18(3), pp.365-370.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Rahman, I.U., Kikvidze, Z., Sikharulidze, S., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M. and Batsatsashvili, K., 2021. Unity in Diversity-Food Plants and Fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus.
Kikvidze Z. 2020. Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Georgia: A Short History of the Caucasus. Routledge
Kikvidze Z. 2020. Ethnobiology of Georgia. Ilia State University, Tbilisi.
Kikvidze, Z., Jolokhava, T., Bakhia, A. and Abdaladze, O. "Jumping the barrier: does a glacier tongue affect species distribution along the elevation gradient in the subnival and nival belts? A case study on Mt. Kazbegi, Georgia, central Great caucasus Mountains." Botanica Serbica 44, no. 2 (2020): 219-229.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D. and Batsatsashvili, K., 2020. Ethnobotany of the Silk Road–Georgia, the Cradle of Wine: Georgia. In Natural Products of Silk Road Plants (pp. 229-254). CRC Press.
Kenar, N. and Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Climatic drivers of ecological divergence among the genera of the tribe Stipeae in Turkey. Flora, 270, p.151650.
Hengky, S.H. and Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Sustainable Coastal Tourism in Tanjung Kelayang, Indonesia. Tourism Planning & Development, pp.1-6.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Darchidze, M., Manvelidze, Z., Ekhvaia, J., Kikodze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2020. From the sea to the mountains-plant use in Adjara, Samegrelo and Kvemo Svaneti, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 20, pp.1-34.
Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2020. An ethnobotany of Kakheti and Kvemo Kartli, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 19, pp.1-27.
Jolokhava, T., Abdaladze, O., Gadilia, S. and Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Variable soil pH can drive changes in slope aspect preference of plants in alpine desert of the Central Great Caucasus (Kazbegi district, Georgia). Acta Oecologica, 105, p.103582.