Meri Arzumanyan

• PhD
• Researcher at Yerevan State University

The article presents the first overview of animal invasions in Armenia with a national comprehensive combined list of documented invasive alien animal species. This list includes 40 species from various taxa of invertebrates and vertebrates, including nematodes, annelids, crustaceans, insects, mollusks, fish and mammals. For each species, we presen...

Background Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 is amongst the fastest-spreading terrestrial slugs Europe-wide. In recent years, it has been recorded in Canada, Mexico and continues to expand eastwards into Eurasia. Renowned for its high invasiveness, combatting its swift spread creates significant challenges in organising effective preventative meas...

Research on the impact of tourism on ecosystems in protected areas has grown in recent years as a part of the debate on how to efficiently combine the use and conservation of natural habitats. Various taxa have been used as indicators through the use of invertebrate animals that have remained modest. The impact of uncontrolled flow of tourism on in...

Application of native species as sentinels allows environmental scientists to determine real genotoxic impact of environmental pollutants. The present study aims at investigating the DNA damage in the land snail Helix lucorum as a biomarker of soil pollution. For this reason, the genotoxic impact of contaminated soil on H. lucorum, collected from d...