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НАУЧНИ ТРУДОВЕ НА Д-Р НИКОЛАЙ БОРИСОВ СПАСОВ

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   НАУЧНИ ТРУДОВЕ, НА ОСНОВАТА НА КОИТО Е ЗАЩИТЕНА ДИСЕРТАЦИЯ (образователна и научна степен доктор, диплома № 26839 от 7.08.2000 г.)
   

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   Boeuf O., E. Cregut, G. Koufos, L. Flynn, J. Michaux, C. Radulescu, N. SPASSOV, E. Tersea, D. Torre. 1997. Biochronologie du Pliocene. In: Actes du Congres Biochrom"97. (J. - P. Aguilar, S. Legendre & J. Michaux, Eds.). Mem. Trav. E.P.H.E., Inst. Montpellier, 21: 799 - 802.
   
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   SPASSOV N. 1995. Contemporary Development of the Vertebrates Paleontology in Bulgaria. EUROPAL. Lyon, 7: 43 - 44.
   
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   Spassov, N., 1997a. 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.
   
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   SPASSOV N. 1997b. The Villafranchian mammalian fauna and its investigation in Europe, on the Balkans and in Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica. Sofia, 27 (3-4):83-94.
   
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   SPASSOV N. 1997c. Varshets and Slivnitsa - new localities of Villafranchian vertebrate fauna from Bulgaria (taxonomic composition, Biostratigraphy and Climatostratigraphy). Geologica Balcanica. Sofia, 27 (1-2): 83-90.
   
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   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. Sofia, 9: 101-113.
   
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   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, 19: 223-230.
   
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   SPASSOV N., E. Cregut. 1999. Premieres donnees sur les Bovides Villafranchiens de Bulgarie. Comptes Rendus, Acad. Sci. Paris, 328: 493 - 498.
   
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   СПАСОВ, Н. 2000. Бозайната мегафауна от късноплиоценските находища Вършец и Сливница (България) и биохронологията на вилафранка в Югоизточна Европа. Автореферат на дисертация за получаване на степен "доктор". Специализиран научен съвет по зоология и екология при ВАК, БАН, София, 52 с. АВТОРЕФЕРАТ.
   

17. SPASSOV N. 1995. The wild animals (p. 12-13); The family of the small predators (p. 25-30). In: Peev D. ,T. Mechinev, N. SPASSOV, G. SPIRIDONOV, P. Yankov, L. Mileva, V. Velichkov, M. Karapetkova, L. Andreev. 1995. La Bulgarie - Patrimoine Natuel. Tilia, Sofia, 191 pp.( en Bulg., Fr., Engl., Espan., Gr., Germ.).

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

19. SPASSOV N., N. NINOV, R. GUNCHEV, K. GEORGIEV. V. IVANOV. 2000. Status of the Large Mammals in the Central Balkan National Park. In: Biological Diversity of the central Balkan National Park, 616 p., USAID. PENSOFT, Sofia p. 425 - 490.

20. SPASSOV N., H. MIKHAILOV, K. GEORGIEV, V. IVANOV. 2000. Status of the Large Mammals in the Rila National Park. In: Biological Diversity of the Rila National Park, 649 p., USAID. PENSOFT, Sofia p. 389 - 428.
Монографии и глави от монографии в чужбина

21. Demeter A., N. SPASSOV. 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).

22. SPASSOV N., G. SPIRIDONOV. 1993. Vormela peregusna Gueld., 1770- Tigeriltiss. In: Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas. Aula Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden. Band 5/II (Carnivora-Mustelidae – 2, Viverridae, Herpestidae, Felidae)).

23. SPIRIDONOV G., N. SPASSOV. 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. ISBN: 1-887531-21-1. pp 467 - 483. (Bulgarian version - 1993).

24. SPASSOV N., P. Vassilev, K. Georgiev. 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. ISBN: 1-887531-21-1. pp 791 - 811. (Bulgarian version - 1993).

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

27. SPASSOV N. 1979. Sexual selection and evolution of intraspecific display means in baboons (Primates, Cercopithecidae). Comptes rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences. Tome 32, No. 2:225-228.

28. SPASSOV.N. 1982. The "Bizarre" dorsal plates of the stegosaurs: Ethological Approach. Comptes rendus de l'Acad. Bulg.Sci. 3: 367-370.

29. THOMAS H., N. SPASSOV, E. Kojumdjieva, J.-L. Poideven, V. Popov, S. Sen, P.Tassy, et D. Visset. 1986. Resultats preliminaires de la premiere mission paleontologique franco-bulgare a Dorkovo (arrondissement de Pazardjik) en Bulgarie. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t. 302, Serie II, No.16: 1037-1042.

30. SPASSOV N. 1989. The position of jackals in the Canis Genus and life-history of the golden jackal (Canis aureus L.) in Bulgaria and the Balkans. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica. Sofia, No 1: 44 - 56.

31. SPIRIDONOV G., N. SPASSOV. 1989. The otter (Lutra lutra L, 1785) in Bulgaria., its status and conservation. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica. Sofia, No.1.

32. SPASSOV N. 1989. On the taxonomic status of Indricotherium Borissiak and the giant Rhinocerotoids - Indricotheres (Perissodactylia). Comptes rendus de l'Acad.Bulg. Sci. 42(3): 61 - 64.

33. SPASSOV N. 1990. Note on the colouration and taxonomic status of the bear (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria. Historia Naturalis Bulgaria, Sofia, No. 2.

34. SPASSOV N. 1990. On the presence and specific position of Pangolins (Gen. Manis L. : Pholidota) in North Mozambique. Historia Naturalis Bulgaria, Sofia No.2.

35. 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. Sofia, 7: 109 - 113.

36. SPASSOV N., D. Raychev. 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. Sofia, 7: 109 - 113.

37. SPASSOV N., V. Simeonovski, G. SPIRIDONOV 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. Sofia, 8.

38. SPASSOV N., K. Georgiev, V. Ivanov, P. Stoev. 1999. Study on the potential ecological corridors between the local populations of the brown bear in Bulgaria. Historia naturalis bulgarica. 10.
Статии на кирилица

39. СПИРИДОНОВ Ж., Н. СПАСОВ, Л. МИЛЕВА. 1979. Ново находище на уралската улулица (Strix uralensis Pallas). Орнитологичен бюлетин, Инст. по зоология, БАН, 6:22-25.

40. СПАСОВ Н. 1980. Среща ли се хермелина (Mustela erminea L.) в България? Природа, София, 3: 96-98.

41. СПИРИДОНОВ Ж., Н. СПАСОВ. 1981. Находище на пернатоногата кукумявка (Aegolius funereus L.) в Стара. Орнитологичен бюлетин, Зоологически институт, БАН, 10: 30-32.

42. СПАСОВ Н. 1982. Фосили на алпийския козирог и гигантският елен в България. Природа, София, 5: 21-27.

43. СПАСОВ Н. 1982. Еволюция и разпространение на степния и черния пор (Mustella putorius). Природа, София, 6: 32-39.

44. Тома, Е., Н. Спасов, Е. Коюмджиева, Ж.Л. Поадевен, В. Попов, Ш. Шен, П. Таси, Д. Висе.. 1986. Неогеновая позвоночная фауна из Дорково,Западние Родопы (первые результаты) Geol. Balcanica, (16),6, Sofia.

45. СПАСОВ Н. 1986. Българо-френската комплексна палеонтологична експедиция край Дорково (Западни Родопи). Природа, София, 2: 45 – 50.

46. ИЛИЕВ Н., З. БОЕВ, Н. СПАСОВ. 1992. Животински костни останки от римска вила (III-IV век) в м. Бялата вода край Перник. Археология, 1: 44 – 53.

47. ИЛИЕВ Н., З. БОЕВ, Н. СПАСОВ. 1994. Изследване на дивата и домашната фауна по археозоологични материали от римския град Рициария (II-IV век) край с. Арчар, Михайловградска област. Археология.

48. ИЛИЕВ Н., Н. СПАСОВ, В. ЛЮБЕНОВА. 1997. Изследване на обработения животински костен материал от археологичния обект Арбанас край Радомир. (I – III век). Годишник на Националния археологически музей. София, т. 10: 185 – 200. (Engl. summary).

49. Peshev D., N. SPASSOV, S. Gerasimov. 1985. On the karyotype of the Weasel - Mustela nivalis L., 1766 (Mammalia, Mustelidae) from Bulgaria. Zool. Anz., Jena.215, 3/4:156-158.

50. SPASSOV N., G. Barichnikov. 1986. Premiere decouverte de I'hermine sur le versant meridional du grand Caucase (Georgie). Mammalia, 50, No. 1: 123-125.

51. SPASSOV N. 1986. Cryptozoology: Its Scope and Progress. Cryptozoology. Allen Press, INC. Lawrence, No. 5: 120 - 124.

52. SPASSOV N., J. Roche. 1988. Le daman de Johnston - nouveau representant du genre Procavia pour la faune du Mozmbique. Mammalia, Paris, No.2. 169-174.

53. SPASSOV N. 1988. A review of some paleocryptozoological hypotheses. Cryptozoology. Allen Press, INC. Lawrence, vol 7: 101-102.

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

55. 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.

56. Reshetov J., N.SPASSOV, B. Bayshashov. 1993. On the taxonomic status of Eggysodon (= Epiaceratherium = Allacerops) turgaicum (Borrisiak,1915), (Hyracodontidae, Preissodactila). Geobios, 26 (6): 715 - 722.

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

58. SPASSOV N. 1994. The Wolf in Bulgaria. International Wolf. Minnesota. 2:17.

59. SPASSOV N., B. Lange-Badre. 1995. Asiavorator altidens gen et sp. nov., un mammifere carnivore nouveau de l'Oligocene superieur de Mongolie. Annales de Paleontologie, 81 (3): 109 - 123.

60. 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.

61. SPASSOV N., L. Ginsburg. 1999. Tapirus balcanicus nov. sp., nouveau tapir (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) du Turolien de Bulgarie. Ann. Paleontol., 85 (40): 265 - 276.

63. SPASSOV N., N. ILIEV 1994. Animal Remains from the Submerged Late Eneolithic - Early Bronze Age Settlement Near Sozopol (The South Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria). Tracia Pontica. 6: 1-30.

64. СПИРИДОНОВ Ж., Н. СПАСОВ, Л. МИЛЕВА. 1982. Нови сведения за разпространението на уралската улулица (Strix uralensis) и пернатоногата кукумявка (Aegolius funerus L.) в България. В: National Theoretical Conference on Preservation and Reproduction of the Environment, 1-5 November 1982. Sofia, Bul. Acad. of Sci., 341-343.

65. СПИРИДОНОВ Ж., Л. МИЛЕВА, Н. СПАСОВ, П. СИМЕОНОВ. 1983. Гнездовата орнитофауна на биосферния резерват Боатин. Proceedings of the International Symposium Man and Mountain Ecosystems. MAB Programme, Vratsa, National Committee of People's Republic of Bulgaria, MAB, MAB-UNESCO, t.2:83-90.

66. ЦАНКОВ Ц., Н. СПАСОВ, Г. НИКОЛОВ. 1999. Върху къснопалеогенското и неогенско релефообразуване и развитие на ланшафта в юго-западна България. В: Геодинамични изследвания във връзка със земетресенията в Крупник-Кресна. Симпозиум – Благоевград: 27 - 28 април, 1999. Доклади. Съюз на геодезистите – БАН, стр. 85 – 94.

67. SPASSOV N.1989. Signallings - Communicative marking in the coloration of the Genus Canis L. Proceedings of the fifth international theriological congress. Rome 22-25 August 1989.

68. SPIRIDONOV, G., N. SPASSOV. 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 p.

69. 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.

III .НАУЧНИ ТРУДОВЕ ИЗЛЕЗЛИ СЛЕД ПОЛУЧАВАНЕ НА СВИДЕТЕЛСТВОТО ЗА СТ.Н.С. II СТ. (= ДОЦЕНТ)

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   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.
   
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   SPASSOV, N., GEORGIEV, K., SPIRIDONOV, G.2001. Brief notes on the status and problems of the lynx in Bulgaria. In: C. Breitenmoser-Wursten and U. Breitenmoser (Eds.) The Balkan lynx population – History, Recent Knowledge on its Status and Concervation Needs. Kora Bericht. Muri, 7: 26-27.
   
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   SPASSOV, N. 2001. Zorillas (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Ictonychini) from the Villafranchian of Bulgaria with a description of a new species of Baranogale Kormos, 1934. Geodiversitas, 23(1): 87-104.
   
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   Geraads, D., SPASSOV, N., Kovachev, D. 2001. New Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the LateMiocene of Bulgaria. J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21 (3):596 - 606.
   
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   Markov, G. N., Spassov, N., Simeonovski, V. 2001. A reconstruction of the facial morphology and feeding behaviour of the deinotheres. In: The World of Elephants. Proceedings of the 1st International Congress, 652-655.
   
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   KOSTOPOULOS, D., N. SPASSOV, D. KOVACHEV. 2001. Contribution to the study of Microstonyx: evidence from Bulgaria and the SE European population. Geodiversitas, Paris, 23(3): 41-437.
   
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   SPASSOV N., IVANOVA, N., BEGO, F., HRISTOVSKY, S., MIHOVA, B. 2001. Status and conservation of the wolf in the Southern Balkans. Wolf Print, 10:17-19.
   
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   MARKOV, G., N., N. SPASSOV 2001. Early Mammuthus meridionalis from Northwest Bulgaria. Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society, 62 (1-3): 117-121.
   
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   SPASSOV, N. 2001. The possible time of the first penetrations of Homo in Europe in the aspect of the paleoclimate analyses and the mammalian plio-pleistocene dispersals from the East. Annual of the Institute and Museum of Archaeology. Sofia, 1: 16 - 21.
   
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    SPASSOV N., Ivanova, N., Georgiev, K., Ivanov, V. 2002. Status of the Marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna peregusna Guldenstaedt) in Western and North-eastern Bulgaria and data on the status of its potential main prey species and competitors. Historia Naturalis bulgarica, 14: 123-140.
    
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    MARKOV, G., N., N. SPASSOV, V. SIMEONOVSKI 2002. Reconstruction of the facial morphology of Deinotherium gigantissimum Stefanescu, 1892 (based on the material from Ezerovo, South Bulgaria). Historia naturalis bulgarica, 14: 141-144.
    
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    STOYTCHEV, T., SPASSOV, N., MARKOV, G. N. 2002. Rock art: Probable existence of the Elephant (Elephas) in Central Arabia by the end of the Pleistocene. Annuary of the Institute of Archaeology with Museum – BAS, vol. II, 70-77.
    
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    STOYTCHEV, T., SPASSOV, N., DIMITROVA, I. 2002. Rock Art: Probable Existеnce of Merck’s Rhinoceros in Early Bronze Age Southwest Sweden. Ann. of the Archaeological Inst. with Museum, 2: 129-134.
    
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    SPASSOV, N. 2002. The Turolian Megafauna of West Bulgaria and the character of the Late Miocene "Pikermian biome". Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 41(1): 69-81.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., N. ILIEV 2002. The animal bones from the prehistoric necropolis near Durankulak. (NE Bulgaria) and the latest record of Equus hydryntinus Regalia. In: H. Todorova (Ed.). Durankulak, Band II, Teil 1. Die Prähistorischen gräberfelder von Durankulak. Deuches Archäologisches Institut – Berlin. Publ. House Anubis Ltd., Sofia, 313-324.
    
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    SPASSOV N. 2002. The Late Villafranchian and biochronology of South-East Europe: faunal migrations, environmental changes and possible first appearance of the genus Homo on the continent. In: “On Late Plio/Pleistocene extinctions and evolution in the Palearctic. The Vatera site”. Ist Internat. workschop, Vatera, Lesvos, 29.9. - 2.10.1999. Annales Geologiques des Pays Hellenique, 1 série, T. XXXIX, A: 221-243.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., KOUFOS, G. 2002. The first appearance of Dinocrocuta gigantea and Machairodus aphanistus (Mammalia, Carnivora) in the Miocene of Bulgaria. Mitt. Bayer. Staatsslg. Paläont. hist. Geol., 42: 83-101
    
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    GERAADS, D., SPASSOV, N., KOVACHEV, D. 2003. Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner, 1848) from the upper Miocene of Bulgaria, and a revision of the species. Geodiversitas, Paris, 25(2): 405-415.
    
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    CRÉGUT-BONNOURE, E., N. SPASSOV 2002. Hemitragus orientalis nov. sp. (Mammalia, Bovidae, Caprinae), un nouveau taxon d'Europe orientale. Revue de Palebiologie. Geneve, 21(2): 553-573.
    
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    SPASSOV, N. 2003. The Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate fauna in South-Eastern Europe and the megafaunal migratory waves from the east to Europe. Revue de Paleobiologie. Geneve, 22 (1): 197-229.
    
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    KOUFOS, G., SPASSOV N., KOVATCHEV, D.2003. Study of Mesopithecus (Primates, Cercopithecoidea) from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeontographica, A, 269 (1-3): 39-91.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., STOYTCHEV, T., 2003. On the origin of the wisent, Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758): presence of the Wisent in the Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Eurasia. In: Advances in Paleontology “Hent to Pantha”, papers in honour of C. Radulescu and P.M. Samson, р. 125-130.
    
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    Markov, G. N., Spassov, N. 2003. Primitive mammoths from Northeast Bulgaria in the context of the earliest mammoth migrations in Europe. In: Advances in Paleontology “Hen to Pantha”, papers in honour of C. Radulescu and P.M. Samson. Bucharest, 53-58.
    
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    SPASSOV N., 2003. The Brown Bear in the southern Balkans. In: Krystufek, B., B. Flajsman, Huw Griffiths (eds.). Chapter 9. Living with Bears, A large European carnivore in a shrinking world. Ekoforum, Ljubljana, pp. 229-244.
    
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    SPASSOV, N.2003. News from Bulgaria. SVP News Bull., No. 185, Fall 2003.
    
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    HRISTOVA, L., KOVACHEV, D., SPASSOV, N. 2003. Hipparion brachypus Hensel, 1862 from the Late Miocene of Hadjidimovo, Southwestern Bulgaria Comptes rendus de l'Academie bulgare des Sciences, 56(2): 77-84.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., STOYTCHEV, T.2004. The Presence of Cave Hyaena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) In: The Upper Palaeolithic Rock Art of Europe. Historia naturalis bulgarica. 16: 159-166.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., STOYTCHEV, T. 2004. The dromedary domestication problem: 3000 BC rock art evidence for the existence of wild One-humped camel in Central Arabia. Historia naturalis bulgarica. 16: 151-158.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., TZANKOV, TZ., GERAADS, D. 2004. Late Neogene Environments of South-West Bulgaria. 5^th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology. Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-20 April 2004. Proceedings. Ed. by A. Chatzipetros and A. Pavlides.Vol. 1: 504-506.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., GERAADS, D. 2004. Tragoportax Pilgrim and Miotragocerus Stromer (Mammalia, Bovidae) from the Turolian of Hadjidimovo, Bulgaria, and a revision of the Late Miocene Mediterranean Boselaphini. Geodiversitas: 26 (2): 339-370.
    
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    SPASSOV, N., MARKOV, G. G. 2004. Biodiversity of large mammals (Macromammalia) in the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria). In: P. Beron, A. Popov (eds.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & Nat. Mus. Natur. Hist., Sofia.
    
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    DELSON E., H. THOMAS, N. SPASSOV. 2005. Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria. Geodiversitas, 27(1):159-166.
    
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    STOYTCHEV, T., SPASSOV, N., 2005. The musk-ox in the bison’s shadow of West European Upper Palaeolithic rock art. Theoretical and Applied Karstology. Bucharest, 16 (2003), pp. 57–66.
    
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    SPASSOV, N. 2005. Brief Review of the Pliocene Ungulate Fauna of Bulgaria. In: É. Crégut-Bonnoure (sous la direction de). Les Ongulés holarctiques du Pliocène et du Pleistocène. Quaternaire, hors-série, No 2:201-212.
    
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    Palombo, M.^, Valli^, A., Kostopoulos^, D., Alberdi^, M., Spassov^, N., Vislobokova, I. 2006. Similarity Relationships between the Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene Large Mammal Faunas of Southern Europe from Spain to the Balkans and the North Pontic Region. Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg., 256. 329-347.
    
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    MONGUILLON, A., SPASSOV, N., ARGANT, A.,KAUHALA, K.,VIRANTA, S. 2004. Nyctereutes vulpinus comb. et stat. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) du Pliocène terminal de Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France). Geobios, 24:183-188.
    
37. 
    SPASSOV, N., STOYTCHEV, T. 2005. In the shadow of the cave lion and other cats: Leopards and Snow Leopards in the Prehistoric Rock Art of Europe and Central Asia.- Annuary of the Department of Archaeology, New Bulgarian University, Vol. 6:5-15.
    
38. 
    SPASSOV, N., GERAADS, D., KOVACHEV, D. 2005. Tragoportax Pilgrim, 1937 and Miotragocerus (Pikermicerus) Kretzoi, 1941 (Mammalia, Bovidae) from the Turolian of Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica. Sofia, 34 (3-4): 89-109.
    
39. 
    GERAADS , D., N. SPASSOV & D. KOVACHEV. 2005. Giraffidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Kalimantsi and Hadjidimovo, South-Western Bulgaria. Geologica Balcanica, 35(1-2):11-18.
    
40. 
    GERAADS D., N. SPASSOV, D. KOVACHEV 2006. The Bulgarian Chalicotheriidae (Mammalia): an update. Revue de paléobiologie, Genève, 25 (2): 429 – 437.
    
41. 
    SPASSOV N., G. SPIRIDONOV 2006. Status of the large mammals (Macromammalia) in Western Rhodopes, Bulgaria. In P. Beron (ed.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 3. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & Nat. Mus. Natur. Hist., Sofia, pp. 959-974.
    
42. 
    SPASSOV, N., ROOK, L. 2006. Eucyon marinae sp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora), a new Canid Species from the Pliocene of Mongolia, with a review of forms referable to the genus. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigraphia, 112(1): 123-133.
    
43. 
    MERCERON G., A. ZAZZO, N. SPASSOV, D. GERAADS, D. KOVACHEV 2006. Bovid paleoecology and paleoenvironments from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria: Evidence from dental microwear and stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 241: 637-654.
    
44. 
    SPASSOV N., SPIRIDONOV G., PENEV G. 2006.The Discovery of an extinct species: Data for the recent presence of the Lynx (Lynx lynx L.) in Bulgaria and discussion of its status since 1941. - Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 17:167-176.
    
45. 
    SPASSOV N., N. ILIEV 2007. Animal remains (Preliminary results). In: Leshtakov K., N. Todorova, V. Petrova, R. Zlateva-Uzunova, O. Özbek, T. Popova, N. Spassov and N. Iliev. Preliminary report on the salvage archaeological excavations at the early Neolithic site Yabalkovo in the Maritsa valley, 2000-2005 field seasons. Anatolica, 33: 185-234.
    
46. 
    SPASSOV N., TZ. TZANKOV, D. GERAADS 2006. Late Neogene stratigraphy, biochronology, faunal diversity and environments of South-West Bulgaria (Struma river valley). GEODIVERSITAS, 28(3): 477-498.
    
47. 
    GERAADS, D., SPASSOV, N., & KOVACHEV, D. 2006. A new Sporadotragus (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 112 (3): 473-479.
    
48. 
    SPASSOV N., GERAADS, D. 2007. Dolichopithecus balcanicus sp. nov., a new Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pliocene of South-eastern Europe, with a discussion on the taxonomy of the genus - Journal of Human Evolution, 52: 434-442 .
    
49. 
    GERAADS, D., E. TSOUKALA, N. SPASSOV 2007. A skull of Ancylotherium (Chalicotheriidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Thermopigi (Serres, N. Greece), and the relationships of the genus - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27 (7): 461-466.
    
50. 
    GERAADS D., SPASSOV, N., R. GAREVSKI. 2008. New specimens of Propotamochoerus (Suidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of the Balkans. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 248(1):103-113.
    
51. 
    SPASSOV N., GERAADS, D. 2008. The Latest Prehumans of Europe: Discovery of a late Miocene Hominoid In Bulgaria of about 7 Ma. NEWS. A Monthly Bulletin about Science and Technologies. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. No 2 (54): 2-4, Year VI, February, 2008. (in Bulgarian and English).
    
52. 
    BOEV, Z., SPASSOV, N., KOVACHEV, D. 2008. First remain of fossil Ostriches (Aves: Struthioniformes: Struthionidae) from Bulgaria. Acta zoologica bulgarica, 60(1): 89-98.
    
53. 
    GERAADS, D., SPASSOV. N. 2008. A new species of Criotherium (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences (AGPH), 43: 21-27.
    
54. 
    Geraads, D., Nikolaï, N. 2009. Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeontographica, A, 287 (4-6):99-122.
    
55. 
    BOEV Z., SPASSOV, N. 2009. First Record of ostriches (Aves, Struthioniformes, Struthionidae) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria with taxonomic and zoogeographic discussion. GEODIVERSITAS, 31(3): 493-507.
    
56. 
    SPASSOV, N. 2009. News from members: Bulgaria, National Museum of Natural History. SVP News Bull., Fall 2009, No. 197:12.
    
57. 
    MERCERON, G., SCOTT, J., SCOTT, R., GERAADS, D., SPASSOV, N., UNGAR, P. 2009. Folivory or fruit/seed predation for Mesopithecus, an earliest colobine from the late Miocene of Eurasia? Journal of Human Evolution, 57(6): 732-738.
    
58. 
    SPASSOV, N. 2009. The Southwesternmost Distribution of the Saiga in the Holocene of Europe: A Saiga Tatarica Find From an Archaeological Site in Bulgaria. In: Gatsov I & J.-L. Guadelli (eds.) SAXA LOQUUNTUR. Volume in honour of the 65^th anniversary of Nikolai Sirakov. Avalon oublisher. Sofia, pp. 317-322.
    
59. 
    CACHORRO, A., IVANOVA, S., GUROVA, M., PEREZ-GONZALEZ, A., MENDEZ J., SPASSOV, N., VINAGRE, A., TZANKOV, T. 2011. Eastern Rhodopes (Sur de Bulgaria): en la Ruta de las Migraciones Humanas en el Pleistoceno de Eurasia. Excavaciones en el exterior 2009. Ministerio de cultura. Informes y trabajos, 5: 16-25.
    
60. 
    Kahlke, R.-D., García, N., Kostopoulos, D., Lacombat, F., Lister, A., Mazza, P., Spassov, N., Titov ,V. 2011. Western Palaearctic palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene inferred from large mammal communities, and implications for hominin dispersal in Europe. In: José Carrión, Jim Rose and Chris Stringer (Editors) - Ecological scenarios for human evolution during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene in the western Palaearctic. Special Issue of Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010.
    
61. 
    GERAADS, D., SPASSOV, N., HRISTOVA, L., MARKOV, G., TZANKOV, T. (in press). Upper Miocene mammals from Strumyani, South-Western Bulgaria. GEODIVERSITAS.
    
62. 
    SPASSOV, N., ILIEV, N. (in press). Analyses of the bones from domestic and wild mammals from the Bronze Age settlement near Baley. In: St. Alexandrov (ed.). Baley, the settlement from the Late Bronze age. Sofia.
    
63. 
    ARNOLD, A., HUMER, A., HELTAI, M., MURARIU, D., SPASSOV, N., HACKLÄNDER, K. (in press). Current status and distribution of golden jackals (Canis aureus L., 1758) in Europe. Mammal Review.
    
64. 
    SPASSOV, N., GERAADS, D. (in press). A skull of Simocyon primigenius (Roth & Wagner, 1854) (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the late Miocene of Karaslari (Republic of Macedonia), with remarks on the systematics and evolution of the genus.
    
65. 
    SPASSOV N. (in press) Acinonyx pardinensis (Croizet et Jobert) remains from the Middle Villafranchian locality of Varshets, Bulgaria and the Plio-Pleistocene history of the cheetahs in Eurasia. In: (Morales J., ed.) Memorial Volume to honour Léonard Ginsburg’s contribution to palaeontology. Estudios Geologicos.
    

1. 
   СПАСОВ, Н., ИЛИЕВ, Н., БОЕВ, З. 2001. Животинските останки от енеолитния археологически обект край с. Долнослав, Пловдивска област. Historia naturalis Bulgarica, 13: 159-179.
   
2. 
   СПАСОВ, Н., СТОЕВ, П. 2001. Кресненският пролом – екологичен коридор за едрите бозайници (Macromammalia). В: (П. Берон, ред.) Биоразнообразие на Кресненския пролом. НПМ & Инст. по зоология – БАН: 335-340
   
3. 
   ХРИСТОВА, Л., КОВАЧЕВ, Д., СПАСОВ, Н.. 2002. Хипарионите (Equidae, Mammalia) от късномиоценското находище Хаджидимово, Югозападна България. Rev. Bulg. Geol. Soc., 63(1-3): 89-98.
   
4. 
   СТОЙЧЕВ, Т., СПАСОВ, Н. 2005. Праисторически бозайници в скалното изкуство на Евразия. Годишник на Нов Български Университет, 6: 144-168.
   
5. 
   СПАСОВ, Н., ЖЕРААДС, Д., ЦАНКОВ, Ц. 2005. В търсене на изкопаеми хоминоиди: природната обстановка в късния миоцен на България. Proceedings of the International Scientific conference (8-11.06.2005). Faculty of Mathematics and natural sciences. South-Western University, Blagoevgrad, 311-319. (in Bulgarian, Engl. summary)
   
6. 
   ЦАНКОВ, Ц., СПАСОВ, Н., СТОЯНОВ, К.2005. Неогенско-кватернерна палеогеография и геодинамика на Средна Струма. Изд. на Югозападния Университет „Н. Рилски”. Благоевград, 199 с. ( Engl. summary).
   
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   ИЛИЕВ Н., СПАСОВ, Н. 2007. Компаративно изследване на дивите и домашни животни от сектор Тополница. В: The Struma/Strimon River Valley in Prehistory. Edited by H. Todorova, M. Stefanovich, G. Ivanov. Proceedings of the International Symposium. Kjustendil-Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) and Serres-Amphipolis (Greece), 27.09-01.10.2004. Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Sofia, pp. 509-522.
   
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   СПИРИДОНОВ, Ж., СПАСОВ, Н. 2005. Видово богатство и насоки в опазването на бозайниците (Mammalia). – В. Петрова, А. (ред.), Съвременно състояние на биоразнообразието в България – проблеми и перспективи, с. 313-324. Българска биоплатформа, София.
   
9. 
   ИВАНОВА, С., ЗЛАТКОВА, М., СПАСОВ, Н., НЕХРИЗОВ, Г., ГЯУРОВА, Б., МИТЕВА, В., ТАНЕВА, С., СПАСОВ, Р. 2006. Сондажни изследвания в пещерата Велкова дупка в Западните Родопи. Археология, 1-4: 7-18.
   
10. 
    ПОПОВ, В., СПАСОВ, Н., ИВАНОВА, Т., МИХОВА, Б., ГЕОРГИЕВ, К. 2007. Бозайниците, важни за опазване в България (Под редакцията на С. Митева, Б. Михова, К. Георгиев, Б. Петров и Д. Вансинк). Dutch Mammal Society VZZ. Arnhem, 328 с.
    
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    СПАСОВ, Н., ИЛИЕВ, Н., БОЕВ, З. (под печат). Животинските останки от ранно-неолитното селище край с. Капитан-Димитриево ( Пазарджишка област), В: В. Николов и др. Селищна могила Капитан Димитриево. Разкопки 2001-2005. Под ред. на В. Николов. София, 2011.
    
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    СПИРИДОНОВ, Ж., СПАСОВ, Н., ИВАНОВ, В. 2008. Нови находища на три реликтни вида птици в Родопите. Historia naturalis bulgarica, 19: 181-183.
    

Спиридонов Ж. ,Спасов Н. Вълк (Canis lupus L.)

Спиридонов Ж. ,Спасов Н. Мечка (Ursus arctos L.)

Спиридонов Ж. ,Спасов Н. Рис (Lynx lynx (L.))

Спиридонов Ж., Спасов Н. Видра (lutra lutra L.)

Спиридонов Ж., Спасов Н, Генов П. Дива коза (Rupicapra rupicapra (L.))

Спасов Н., Спиридонов Ж., Марков Г. Дива котка Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777

Спасов Н. Спиридонов Ж. Пъстър пор Vormela peregusna (Güldenstaedt, 1770)

Спасов Н. Спиридонов Ж. Степен пор Mustela eversmanni Lesson, 1827

Спасов Н. Черноморски тюлен Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779)
Спасов Н. Норка Mustela lutreola (Linnaeus, 1761)

Спасов Н. Морска свиня. Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Спасов Н. Афала Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Пояснения за статиите от раздел III
- Статиите от 2000-2001 г., от №1 до № 9 - на латиница и от №1 до № 2 - на кирилица, са излезли след започването на процедурата за ст.н.с. II ст. и не са разглеждани при оценяването на трудовете на Н. Спасов за получаване на това звание.
- Трудовете № 6 и № 10 на кирилица са монографични.
- За приложените статии „под печат” авторът прилага необходимите доказателствени документи.
- Приравняването на броя статии от Червената книга към една научна статия е направено според критериите приети при атестирането на учените от НПМ-БАН


СТУДИИ И СТАТИИ ОТ РАЗДЕЛ III С ИМПАКТ ФАКТОР (23 бр.)
SPASSOV, N. 2001. Zorillas (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Ictonychini) from the Villafranchian of Bulgaria with a description of a new species of Baranogale Kormos, 1934. Geodiversitas, 23(1): 87-104.

Geraads D., N. SPASSOV, D. Kovachev. 2001. New Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from Bulgaria. J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21 (3):596 - 606.

KOSTOPOULOS, D., N. SPASSOV, D. KOVACHEV. 2001. Contribution to the study of Microstonyx: the Bulgarian case. Geodiversitas, Paris, 23(3): 41-437.

KOUFOS GEORGE, NIKOLAI SPASSOV and DIMITER KOVATCHEV 2003. Study of Mesopithecus (Primates, Cercopithecoidea) from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeontographica, A, 269 (1-3): 39-91.

SPASSOV, N., D. GERAADS 2004. Tragoportax Pilgrim and Miotragocerus Stromer (Mammalia, Bovidae) from the Turolian of Hadjidimovo, Bulgaria, and a revision of the Late Miocene Mediterranean Boselaphini. Geodiversitas: 26 (2): 339-370.

MONGUILLON A., SPASSOV N., ARGANT A.,KAUHALA K.,VIRANTA S. 2004. Nyctereutes vulpinus comb. et stat. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora, Canidae) du Pliocène terminal de Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France). Geobios, 24:183-188.

DELSON E., H. THOMAS, N. SPASSOV. 2005. Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates: Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria. Geodiversitas, 27(1):159-166.

SPASSOV N., TZ. TZANKOV, D. GERAADS 2006. Late Neogene stratigraphy, biochronology, faunal diversity and environments of South-West Bulgaria (Struma river valley). GEODIVERSITAS, 28(3): 477-498.

NIKOLAI SPASSOV, LORENZO ROOK 2006. Eucyon marinae sp. nov. (Mammalia, Carnivora), a new Canid Species from the Pliocene of Mongolia, with a review of forms referable to the genus. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigraphia, 112(1): 123-133.

MERCERON G., A. ZAZZO, N. SPASSOV, D. GERAADS, D. KOVACHEV 2006. Paleoecology and paleoenvironments from the Late Miocene of Bulgaria: evidence from dental microwear and stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 241: 637-654.

GERAADS, D., SPASSOV, N., & KOVACHEV, D. 2006. A new Sporadotragus (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 112 (3): 473-479.

SPASSOV N., D. GERAADS 2007. Dolichopithecus balcanicus sp. nov., a new Colobinae (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pliocene of South-eastern Europe, with a discussion on the taxonomy of the genus - Journal of Human Evolution, 52: 434-442

GERAADS, D., E. TSOUKALA, N. SPASSOV 2007. A skull of Ancylotherium (Chalicotheriidae, Mammalia) from the late miocene of Thermopigi (Serres, N. Greece), and the relationships of the genus - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27(7): 461-466.

BOEV Z., N. SPASSOV. 2009. First Record of ostriches (Aves, Struthioniformes, Struthionidae) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria with taxonomic and zoogeographic discussion. GEODIVERSITAS, 31(3): 493-507.

GILDAS MERCERON, JESSICA SCOTT, ROBERT S. SCOTT, DENIS GERAADS, NIKOLAI SPASSOV, PETER S. UNGAR. 2009. Folivory or fruit/seed predation for Mesopithecus, an earliest colobine from the late Miocene of Eurasia? Journal of Human Evolution xxx (2009) 1–7.

DENIS GERAADS AND NIKOLAÏ SPASSOV . 2009. Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria. Palaeontographica, A, 287 (4-6):99-122.

ARNOLD J., HELTAI M., HUMMER A., SPASSOV N., MURARIU D. (in press). Current status and distribution of golden jackals (Canis aureus L., 1758) in Europe. Mammal Review

KAHLKE RALF-DIETRICH, NURIA GARCÍA, DIMITRIS S KOSTOPOULOS, FRÉDÉRIC LACOMBAT, ADRIAN M LISTER, PAUL P MAZZA, NIKOLAI SPASSOV, VADIM V TITOV (in press). Western Palaearctic palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene inferred from large mammal communities, and implications for hominin dispersal in Europe. In: José Carrión, Jim Rose and Chris Stringer (Editors) - Ecological scenarios for human evolution during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene in the western Palaearctic. Special Issue of Quaternary Science Reviews (Manuscript pages 1-89, figs. 1-6)

GERAADS D., SPASSOV N., HRISTOVA L., MARKOV G., TZANKOV T. (in press).

Upper Miocene mammals from Strumyani, South-Western Bulgaria. GEODIVERSITAS.

SPASSOV N., GERAADS D. (in press). A skull of Simocyon primigenius (Roth & Wagner, 1854) (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the late Miocene of Karaslari (Republic of Macedonia), with remarks on the systematics and evolution of the genus.