Aleksandar Pavlov

Macedonian Ecological Society | MES

The estimation of foraging parameters is fundamental for understanding predator ecology. Predation and feeding can vary with multiple factors, such as prey availability, presence of kleptoparasites and human disturbance. However, our knowledge is mostly limited to local scales, which prevents studying effects of environmental factors across larger...

The Balkan lynx (Lynx lynx balcanicus) is the most endangered autochthonous population of the Eurasian lynx, distributed only in the southwest Balkans. In 2022, 35 to 39 individuals were documented in North Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. The Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme (BLRP) started in 2006 as a transboundary project with EuroNatur (DE), KORA (...

Proper conservation of large carnivores always entails a robust understanding of their ecology. The diet is one of the fundamental elements that needs to be well assessed before proposing sound management measures. The brown bear population in Prespa is shared among three countries – Albania, Greece and North Macedonia – that considerably vary in h...

Selecting appropriate candidates for genetic rescue mostly relies on previous genetic research and monitoring, while ecological and behavioural traits of the remnant and source populations are rarely considered for such conservation measures. Because of their slow recovery, Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx populations in Central and Western Europe have been...

Aim Genome‐wide genetic data can provide key input for both taxonomy and conservation, but its use in this context remains limited. In this study, we performed the first genome‐wide assessment of genetic variation in two populations of the Eurasian lynx, the Balkan population, the most threatened, and the Caucasian population, a possible glacial re...

The Balkan lynx Lynx lynx balcanicus is a subspecies of the Eurasian lynx distributed in the south-west Balkans, with relict populations in the Mavrovo National Park and surroundings in North Macedonia and the Munella Mountains in Albania, and with single individuals in Bjeshkët e Nemuna, western Kosovo. In 2015 the Balkan lynx was assessed as Crit...

The aim of this study is to provide a descriptive analysis on the livestock keeping systems in the Albanian and North Macedonian parts of the Prespa basin and evaluate the extent and types of conflicts existing between shepherds and large carnivores, by the means of a questionnaire survey that was conducted through face-to-face interviews between S...

We contribute new data about distribution of 10 small mammal species in North Macedonia. For the first time wе recorded the presence of two brown-toothed shrews in еastern Macedonia – Sorex araneus and S. minutus. We documented the highest known observation in Europe for Microtus hartingi – from about 1000 m a.s.l. We provide new records of Glis gl...

Spatial and foraging ecology of the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) has been well recognized, however due to the distinct taxonomic position and geographic isolation of its Balkan population, it is important to learn and compare its ecology to other populations of this felid. Therefore, the paper offers the first ever investigation into the spatial and f...

The paper presents а contrastive analysis of the spatial meanings of the preposition na and its semantic counterparts in Macedonian. Reviewed here are the contexts in which na assumes similarity of meaning to another preposition. In that respect, a view is presented that the synonymy among prepositions ensues from a shared topology they denote. Thi...

The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx L. 1758) is an ambush predator with preference for medium-sized ungulates. The felid, however, has a varied diet which includes other animals, ranging from lagomorphs and rodents to chiropterans and small carnivores. The paper offers an overview of the alternative diet of the endangered population of the Balkan subspeci...

Two decapod crustaceans from the family Astacidae occur in freshwater habitats in the Republic of Macedonia: noble crayfish Astacus astacus (Linnaeus 1758), and stone crayfish, Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank 1803). Despite their importance in aquatic ecosystems, these species receive limited conservation attention and publicity in our country...