Nikolai Spassov [publications] (5)

Спасов, Н., Илиев, Н., Боев, З., 2001. Животинските останки от енеолитния археологически обект край с. Долнослав, Пловдивска област. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 159—179. [PDF]

Tzankov, Tz., Spassov, N., Nikolov, G., 2000. Role of the circular structures for the contemporary relief building in Mesta river valley (South-West Bulgaria and North Greece). — Reports on Geodesy. Warsaw University of technology, Inst. of Geodesy and Geodesic astronomy, 4 (49): 189—194.

Tzankov, Tz., Spassov, N., Nikolov, G., 2000. On the character of Late Paleogene and neogene relief and landscape building in South West Bulgaria. — Reports on Geodesy. Warsaw University of technology, Inst. of Geodesy and Geodesic astronomy, 4 (49):137—144.

Spassov, N., Ninov, N., Gunchev, R., Georgiev. K., Ivanov, V., 2000. Status of the Large Mammals in the Central Balkan National Park. — In: Biological Diversity of the central Balkan National Park, 616 pp., USAID. Pensoft, Sofia p. 425—490.

Spassov, N., Mikhailov, H., Georgiev, K., Ivanov, V., 2000. Status of the Large Mammals in the Rila National Park. — In: Biological Diversity of the Rila National Park, 649 pp., USAID. Pensoft, Sofia p. 389—428.

Spassov, N., 2000. The Mammalian Megafauna from the Late Villafranchian Localities Varshets and Sivnitsa (Bulgaria) and the Biochronology of the Villafrancian in S.-E. Europe. — Summary of the Ph. D. Thesis. Specialized Council of Zoology and Ecology. N.M.N.H., Bulg. Acad. Sci. Sofia, 52 pp.

Spassov, N., 2000. The Turolian Hipparion-fauna and the character of the environment in the late Miocene of South-East Bulgaria. — Review of the Bulgarian Geological society, Sofia, 61 (1—3): 47—59.

Spassov, N., 2000. Biochronology and Zoogeographic affinities of the Villafranchian faunas of South Europe. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 12: 89—128.

Tzankov, Tz., Spassov, N., Nikolov, G., 1999. On the Late Paleogene and Neogene Relief Formation and Landskape Evolution in South-Western Bulgaria. — In: Geodinamic investigations related to the Krupnik — Kresna earthquake. Blagoevgrad, Symposium: 27—28 April, 1999. Proceedings. Soyuz na geodezistite & Bulg. Acad. Sci., pp. 85—94.

Spassov, N., Spiridonov, G., 1999. The bear in Bulgaria. — in: The Bears. Status survey and conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Bear Specialist Group IUCN, Gland, 309 pp.

Spassov, N., Ivanov, V., Georgiev, K., Stoev, P., 1999. Study on the potential ecological corridors between the local populations of the brown bear in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 10: 133—146. [PDF]

Spassov, N., Ginsburg, L., 1999. Tapirus balkanicus nov. sp., nouveau tapir (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) du Turolien de Bulgarie. — Ann. Paleontol., 85 (40): 265—276.

Spassov, N., Cregut, E., 1999. Premieres donnees sur les Bovides Villafranchiens de Bulgarie. — Comptes Rendus, Acad. Sci. Paris, 328: 493—498.

Spassov, N., 1999. The New Paleontological Museum in Assenovgrad (a Branch of the N.M.N.H. — Sofia) and its Importance for the Investigations of the Hipparion-Fauna in SE-Europe. — EUROPAL, 14:18—19.

Spassov, N., 1999. Nouvelles donnees sur la presence et le statut du Putois marbre (Vormela peregusna) et du Putois siberien (Mustela eversmanni) en Dobroudja bulgare. — Branta. Le Balkan, 3: 27.

Spiridonov, G., Spassov, N., 1998. Large mammals (Macromammalia) of Bulgaria. — In: Bulgaria’s Biological Diversity: Conservation and Status Needs Assessment. Vol. I and II. (C. Meine, ed.). Washington D. C.: Biodiversity Support Programm, pp. 467—483. (Bulgarian version — 1993).

Spassov, N., Vassilev, P., Georgiev, K., 1998. Report of Wilderness Fund on the Status and conservation of biological diversity in the Central Part of the Balkan Mountains. — In: Bulgaria’s Biological Diversity: Conservation and Status Needs Assessment. Vol. I and II. (C. Meine, ed.). Washington D. C.: Biodiversity Support Programm, pp. 791—811. (Bulgarian version — 1993).

Spassov, N., Iliev, N., 1998. The late pleistocene and holocene horses of East Europe and the polyphylethic origin of the domestic horse. — In: Stefanovich, M., Todorova, H., Hauptmann, H. (eds). James H. Gaul in memoriam. The James Harvey Gaul Fondation, Sofia, 371—390.

Spassov, N., 1998. Slivnitsa — a New Bulgarian Late Villafranchian Locality of Vertebrate Fauna and the Mammalian Dispersal Events in Europe on the Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary. — in: XXXI Convegno della Societa di Biogeographia: Biogeografia del Quaternario in Italia. Bologna, 16—18 Dec. 1996. Soc. Ital. di Biogeografia. Biogeografia, 19: 223—230.

Spassov, N., 1998. A New Late Villafranchian Locality of vertebrate Fauna — Slivnitsa (Bulgaria) and the Carnivore Dispersal Events in Europe on the Pliocene/Pleistocene Boundary. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 9: 101—113.

Spassov, N., Simeonovski, V., Spiridonov, G., 1997. The Wild Cat (Felis silvestris Schr.) and the Feral Domestic cat: Problems of the Coloration Patterns, Taxonomy, Identification of the Hybrids and Purity of the Wild Population. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 8: 101—118.

Spassov, N., Raychev, D., 1997. Late Wurm Panthera pardus remains from Bulgaria: the European fossil leopards and the question of the probable species survival until the Holocene on the Balkans. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 7: 109—113. [PDF]

Spassov, N., Iliev, N., 1997. The wild horses of East Europe and the polyphylethic origin of the domestic horse. — Proceedings of the 7-ICAZ Congress. Anthropozoologica, 25—26: 753—761. [PDF]

Spassov, N., Georgiev, K., Ivanova, N., 1997. Status of Vormela peregusna peregusna Gould. in Bulgaria and a Management plan of its population in the country. — In: Biodiversity and Ecological Problems of Balkan Fauna. Abstracts. Inst. of Zoology, Sofia.

Spassov, N., 1997. Villafranchian Succession of Mammalian Megafaunas from Bulgaria and the Biozonation of South-East Europe. — In: Aguilar, J.-P., Legendre, S., & Michaux, J. (eds), Actes du Congres Biochrom ’97. Mémoires et travaux de l’Institut de Montpellier de l’École Pratique des Hautes 21: 669—676.

Spassov, N., 1997. Varshets and Slivnitsa — new localities of Villafranchian vertebrate fauna from Bulgaria (taxonomic composition, Biostratigraphy and Climatostratigraphy). — Geologica Balcanica. Sofia, 27 (1—2): 83—90.

Spassov, N., 1997. The Villafranchian mammalian fauna and its investigation in Europe, on the Balkans and in Bulgaria. — Geologica Balcanica. Sofia, 27 (3—4): 83—94.

Spassov, N., 1997. Evidences for a late pleistocene isolation and a separate taxonomic status of the Mediterranean brown bear and the conservation value of the Balkan bear population. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 7: 109—113.

Iliev, N., Spassov, N., Liubenova, V., 1997. Investigations on the Processing of Animal Bone Material Found in the Archaeological Site of Arbanas near Radomir (I—III Centuries). — Annuary of the National Museum of Archaeology. Sofia, Vol. 10: 185—200.

Boeuf, O., Cregut, E., Koufos, G., Flynn, L., Michaux, J., Radulescu, C., Spassov, N., Tersea, E., Torre, D., 1997. Biochronologie du Pliocene. — In: Aguilar, J.-P., Legendre, S., & Michaux, J. (eds), Actes du Congres Biochrom ’97. Mémoires et travaux de l’Institut de Montpellier de l’École Pratique des Hautes 21: 799—802.

Aguilar, J.-P., Spassov, N. et al., 1997. Syntheses et tablaux de correlations. — In: Actes du Congres Biochrom’97. Mem. Trav. E.P.H.E., Inst. Montpellier, 21: 799—802.

Spassov, N., Simeonovski, V., Spiridonov, G., 1996. Coloration Patterns of Felis silvestris and of Hybrids of Wild and Domestic Cats: The Issue of Population Purity. — In: (N. Botev, ed.). Proc. of the Internat. Union of Game Biologists. XXII Congress ‘The Game and the Man’, pp. 197—201. September, 1955 — Pensoft, Sofia.

Spassov, N., Spiridonov, G., Georgiev, K., Ivanov, V., 1995. Status of the bear in Bulgaria. — European bear Life project — reports. Nimpheon. Arcturos.

Spassov, N., Lange-Badre, B., 1995. Asiavorator altidens gen et sp. nov., un mammifere carnivore nouveau de l’Oligocene superieur de Mongolie. — Annales de Paleontologie, 81 (3): 109—123. [PDF]

Spassov, N., 1995. Taxonomic and Conservation Status of the Bulgarian and the Balkan Brown Bear. — International Bear News, 3 (4): 10.

Spassov, N., 1995. Contemporary Development of the Vertebrates Paleontology in Bulgaria. — EUROPAL. Lyon, 7: 43—44.

Peev, D., Mechinev, T., Spassov, N., Spiridonov, G., Yankov, P., Mileva, L., Velichkov, V., Karapetkova, M., Andreev, L., 1995. La Bulgarie — Patrimoine Natuel. — Tilia, Sofia, 191 pp.

Spassov, N., Iliev, N., 1994. Animal Remains from the Submerged Late Eneolithic — Early Bronze Age Settlement Near Sozopol (The South Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria). — In: M. Lazarov & Ch. Angelova (eds). La Thrace et les sociétés maritimes anciennes, 18—24 September, 1994. Sozopol. Tracia Pontica, (Proceedings of the International Symposium) VI., Series 1. Sozopol, pp. 287—314.

Spassov, N., 1994. The Wolf in Bulgaria. — International Wolf. Minnesota. 2: 17.

Spassov, N., 1994. Teniseggysodon nom. nov. pro Tenisia Reshetov, Spassov, Baishashov, 1993 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Hyracodontidae). — Geobios, 27 (2): 220.

Spassov, N., Spiridonov, G., 1993. Vormela peregusna Gueld., 1770 — Tigeriltiss. — In: Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas. Aula Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden. Band 5/II (Carnivora), pp. 817—854.

Reshetov, J., Spassov, N., BaIshashov, B., 1993. On the taxonomic status of Eggysodon (= Epiaceratherium = Allacerops) turgaicum (Borrisiak,1915), (Hyracodontidae, Perissodactyla). — Geobios, 26 (6): 715—722. [PDF]

Demeter, A., Spassov, N., 1993. Canis aureus L., 1785 — schakal. — In: Demeter, A., Gorgas, M., Jakubiec, Z., Lüps, P., Nowak, E., Peters, G., Pulliainen, E., Spassov, N., Wandeler, A. P. Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas. (Niethammer, J., Krapp, F., eds). Aula Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden. Band 5/I (Carnivora). [PDF]

Илиев, Н., Боев, З., Спасов, Н., 1993. Животински костен материал от римския град Рациария (II — IV в.) край с. Арчар, Михайловградска област. — Археология, БАН, 4: 52—59. [PDF]

Spassov, N., 1992. Skeletal morphology, ecology and competition of the Aurochs and European bison in the Holocene of Europe. — in: Proceedings of the Symposium ‘Ungulates 91’, Toulouse 2—6 September 1991. IRGM — I.N.R.A. Toulouse, pp. 57—61. [PDF]

Spassov, N., 1992. Display and hyperbolization of signal symbols: Camels and Two-horn Rhinoceroses. — in: Proceedings of the simposium. ‘Ungulates 91’, Toulouse 2—6 september 1991. IRGM — I.N.R.A., Toulouse, pp. 467—470.

Илиев, Н., Боев, З., Спасов, Н., 1992. Животински кости от късноантична вила и ранновизантийско селище в кв. Бела вода, Перник. — Археология, БАН, 1: 44—53. [PDF]

Spassov, N., 1991. The Musk ox in Eurasia — Extinct at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary or survivor to Historical Times. — Cryptozoology. Allen Press, Inc, 10: 4—15.

Spiridonov, G., Spassov, N., 1990. Status of the lynx in Bulgaria. — p. 13 in: Breitenmoser, U., Breitenmoser-Wursten, C. (eds). Status, conservation needs and reintroduction of the lynx (Lynx lynx) in Europe. Nature and Environment Series, No 45, Council of Europe. Strasburg, 48 pp.

Spiridonov, G., Spassov, N., 1990. Status of the bear (Ursus arctos 1.) in Bulgaria. — In: Bear status report from Europe. Aquilo. Ser. Zool., 27: 71—75.