Viktor Gasso

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University · Zoology and Ecology

Studying the effects of neonicotinoids on non-target organisms is still an urgent task in today's world, where they are used in substantial quantities. Initially, it is interesting to find out the change in easy-to-detect parameters under insecticide exposure conditions that may indicate some exposure. Therefore, we investigated the parameters of o...

Бичок-ратан Ponticola ratan (Nordmann, 1840) зазвичай мешкає в солоних і солонуватих водах Чорного, Азовського та Каспійського морів. Нами представлені останні дані щодо місць знахідок бичка-ратана у прісних водах України. Знахідки статевозрілих особин бичка-ратана в Дніпровському та Канівському водосховищах свідчать про його активне просування вве...

Dice snakes can be a paratenic host for a stage IV of Eustrongylides excisus, Jägerskiöld, 1909 larva due to specific diet of the snakes. The infection rate of E. excisus in Natrix tessellata(Laurenti, 1768) was studied in the basin of the middle and the lower Dnipro River in 2013–2017. We searched for nematodes in snakes from four sites: Prydnipro...

Heavy metals in model conditions as well as industrial pollution launch disturbances in neural cells of different animals and human beings. The neurotoxicity of mercury, which is one of the most toxic heavy metals, has been studied for several decades. However, its low doses chronic exposure effects for neural tissue cells are still poorly understo...

Heavy metals in model conditions as well as industrial pollution launch disturbances in neural cells of different animals and human beings. The neurotoxicity of mercury, which is one of the most toxic heavy metals, has been studied for several decades. However, its low doses chronic exposure effects for neural tissue cells are still poorly understo...

The monograph is devoted to the study of the fullerene C60 nanoparticle influence on molecular and cellular processes in an animal organism. The state of the art of molecular pathway response to fullerene C60 as a potential environmental pollutant is highlighted. Aspects of astroglial and neuronal cytoskeleton disorders as well as effects on reprod...

Imidacloprid is a widely used pesticide that belongs to the class of neonicotinoids. There is a piece of rising evidence that neonicotinoids exert cytotoxic effects in non-target organisms including vertebrate species such as mammals. Nevertheless, dose-limiting toxicity and molecular mechanisms of neonicotinoids' deleterious effects are still poor...

Imidacloprid is a widely used pesticide that belongs to the class of neonicotinoids. There is a piece of rising evidence that neonicotinoids exert cytotoxic effects in non-target organisms including vertebrate species such as mammals. Nevertheless, dose-limiting toxicity and molecular mechanisms of neonicotinoids' deleterious effects are still poor...

The progressive development of technologies in the manufacture and application of nanomaterials in almost all spheres of human life causes penetration in an organism and accumulation of nanoparticles in its cells. Determinations of the risk of using nanomaterials and mechanisms of their cytotoxicity are extremely relevant current problems that shou...

Imidacloprid is the most widely used pesticide of the neonicotinoid class. Neonicotinoid toxicities against various insects are well known. Nevertheless, there are rising evidences that neonicotinoids exert cytotoxic effects on different non-target organisms including mammals, fish, birds etc. Besides, depending on pesticide application, the expose...

The synthetic pyrethroid of systemic insecticidal and acaricidal action, λ-cyhalothrin, is characterized by typical axonal excitotoxicity. Currently, it is widely used in agriculture worldwide. In fish, it negatively affects the functional characteristics of the nervous system, causes motorial paralysis, and increases mortality. The concentrations...

Amphibians play an important role in the formation of biodiversity and functioning in most terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Urbanization threatens to survive many species due to the destruction of natural ecosystems whose remains become fragmented, isolated, and modified by urbanization processes. The floodplain and coastal ecosystems along b...

Pyrethroid and neonicotinoid pesticides are synthetic substances that are distributed in different economic activity spheres and until recent times were considered one of the safe types of insecticides. It is known that the use of pyrethroid and neonicotinoid insecticides have certain environmental risks for animal populations. Reptiles manifest a...

Imidacloprid is the most widely used pesticide of the neonicotinoid class. Neonicotinoid toxicities against various insects are well known. Nevertheless, there are rising evidences that neonicotinoids exert cytotoxic effects on different non-target organisms including mammals, fish, birds etc. Besides, depending on pesticide application, the expose...

Cadmium (Cd) is a nonessential transition metal and one of the most toxic environmental pollutants. Industrial, agricultural and urban activities are the main sources of Cd environmental contamination. Multiple deleterious effects of Cd exposure were reported for different cell types and living organisms in a great number of research papers. Cd bio...

Mercury is a widespread heavy metal that causes a stable and prolonged environmental pollution. Low concentrations of inorganic and organic mercury compounds are found in almost all water bodies. The high level of mercury bioaccumulation is a cause of tissue-specific toxicity, including neurotoxicity. Absorbed in nervous tissue mercury can cause br...

The creation of reservoirs in river valleys for the accumulation of fresh water has been and remains an important issue around the world. This process has both positive and negative consequences for people and nature. Significant changes in the regime of rivers and their valleys, flooding of meadows and forests, flooding of soils and changes in the...

Imidacloprid became the most sold neonicotinoid insecticide in the world in the 21st century. Due to their constant use, neonicotinoids are stored in soils, bottom deposits, and surface waters. It is known that neonicotinoids reveal toxicity for non-target species: annelid worms, insects, fish, birds, and mammals. Neonicotinoids exhibit reproductiv...

Anthropogenic pollution of natural waters by pesticides became a global prob-lem with the beginning of their widespread use in the 1960s of the twentieth century. The most studied cells’ response to the pesticides is an increase in the content of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and, as a consequence, the development of oxidative stress. The prolifera...

Differences in the herpetofauna of the shelterbelts, which are located at different distances from the fields treated with pesticides, have been studied. It was found that the herpetofauna of artificial forest plantations on the right bank of the Samara River consists of five species: Bufotes viridis, Pelobates vespertinus, Natrix natrix, Coronella...

Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal that currently presents in almost all components of the environment. Cd is a ubiquitous pollutant that is constantly entering the environment from industry and agriculture, mining, forest fires and many more sources. Some occupational diseases have aftereffects associated with Cd cytotoxicity. Despite long-term studies...

The present study was designed to evaluate the responsiveness of modulation of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) content and its fragmentation in the snake brain as a biomarker of local industrial pollution of aquatic ecosystems. Despite GFAP being a well known cytoskeleton marker of astrocytes’ reactivity in the brain of vertebrates, its expr...

The state of art analysis of available published data allowed to determine the features of the roadside ecosystems formation and the possibility of further development of biodiversity conservation measures. In Ukraine and around the world, road infrastructure is an important economic and social object that has a negative impact on the environment....

The monograph includes important scientific information on the assessments of climate change impacts on the animals under current conditions of anthropogenic pressure within the steppe zone of Ukraine. The place of animals in organization of biogeocenosis and characteristics of adaptation there of to climate change were revealed. The results of mul...

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of population-genetic processes that occur because of natural cross-species hybridization can show mechanisms of overcoming the reproductive barrier and obtaining the species status by a hybrid taxon. This is clearly seen in the population systems of Eurasian water frogs – Pelophylax esculentus complex. The...

Currently, most amphibian populations in the world exist under the influence of numerous stress factors. Among them, the main factors that affect almost all terrestrial animals, namely, the fragmentation of habitats, environmental pollution and anthropic transformation of landscapes. Moreover, those factors are joined by negative causes that affect...

Cadmium is a common transition metal that entails an extremely wide range of toxic effects in humans and animals. The cytotoxicity of cadmium ions and its compounds is due to various genotoxic effects, including both DNA damage and chromosomal aberrations. Some bone diseases, kidney and digestive system diseases are determined as pathologies that a...

In December 2016, the common perсarina Percarina demidoffii Nordmann, 1840 has been evidentiary detected in the Dniprovske (Zaporizske) reservoir for the first time. Two specimens of percarina were caught in the rowing channel area (the upper part of the reservoir) near the Dnipro city. One individual was caught there in 2017 as well. The paper pre...

The research was conducted in the spring and early summer of 2006, 2009 and 2011. We studied herpetofauna of agrocoenoses and the adjacent forest shelterbelts (Novomoskovs’k district of the Dnipropetrovsk region) (48.778° N, 35.429° E). Agrocoenoses are represented by sown areas with crop rotation of wheat Triticum L. and phacelia Phacelia Jus...

We studied the peculiarities of bioaccumulation and distribution of heavy metals (cadmium, lead, zinc and copper) in the bone tissue, liver and kidneys of the dice snake Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768) inhabited ecosystems under different anthropogenic loads in 2015-2016. Mature individuals were caught in anthropogenically transformed ecosystems...

Copper sulphate pentahydrate (CuSO4∙5H2O) is widely used as a pesticide not only in agricultural but in aquaculture farming as well. Copper sulphate is a cheap chemical and able to contaminate the environment, especially water sources, which is crucial for fish harvesting and farming. The copper contamination in some areas is caused over decades be...

Представлено результати досліджень обсягів рийної діяльності прудкої ящіркиу степовому та лісовому (суховатий бір) біогеоценозах Присамар’я. Визначено гли-бину занурення та довжину ходу нір, об’єм та масу винесеного на поверхню ґрунтуяк з однієї нори, так й у перерахунку на гектар. Встановлено, що нори прудкої ящір-ки можуть відрізнятися за будовою...

The Nature Reserve «Dniprovsky-Orilsky» occupies unique ecosystems of the floodplain of the middle part of the Dnieper River, where the medium-flooded forests (black poplar and willow forests, elm-Tatarian maple oakeries, and pine forests at the sandy second terrace) predominate. Marshy, wet and dry meadows, sandy steppes, salt marshes, floodplain...

Populational and biochemical response of sand lizard to the influence of metal-working manufacturing

Agricultural activities are one of the main factors affecting ecosystems. In Ukraine the sowing area averages 32.5 million hectares. The withdrawal of this area from natural landscape and its transformation into arable lands, introducing monocultures as well as application of pesticides and fertilizers led to the disruption of long-term ecological...

p>The problem of transformation of natural landscapes resulted from the negative technogenic impact is highlighted. It is shown that mining enterprises are powerful anthropo-technical sources of organic and inorganic toxicants entering the environment. Their wastes pollute all components of the ecosystems and negatively influence human health by in...

11 біохімічних параметрів сироватки крові популяцій звичайного вужа з різних за ступенем техно-генного навантаження екосистем. Дослідження проведені для популяцій звичайного вужа заплавних екосистем правого берега р. Дніпро (у межах м. Дніпропетровськ), які представлені системою озер і островів. Ці екосистеми перебувають під впливом роз-ташованих в...

The dice snake Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768) is one of the common snake species in the Southern Palaearctic and North Africa. In the Central and Southern Dnieper River basin the dice snake is one of the most numerous and characteristic species. Relative isolation and the varying influence of environmental factors are known to be a motive force...

Floodplain ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots and supply multiple ecosystem services. At the same time they are often prone to human pressures that increasingly impact their intactness. Multifunctional floodplain management can be defined as a management approach aimed at a balanced supply of multiple ecosystem services that serve the needs of th...

Dice snake Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768) is one of the most common snake species in the southern Palearctic and North Africa. Identification of ecological, morphological and phenetic features of the dice snake populations in different ecosystems is significant because they can reflect the microevolutional processes and animal adaptations to ce...

We studied morphophysiological indices of organs of the dice snakes, Natrix tessellata (Laurenti, 1768), from three populations in the Steppe Zone of Ukraine along the Dnieper River. The specimens were collected in 2013–2016 in three areas: Prydniprovska Thermal Power-Station (Dnipro City), the National Nature Park “Velykyi Luh”, Zaporizhia region,...

Вплив важких металів на життєздатність та фізичних стан водяного вужа (Natrix tessellata) залишається майже недослідженим. Важкі метали вважаються можливими чинниками порушення нормального функціонування органів тварин, вони зменшують тривалість життя та погіршують загальний стан здоров’я. Дослідження проводили у трьох місцях проживання вужів: балк...

Досліджено герпетофауну трьох новостворених заказників у Павлоградському районі Дніпропетровської області – Малотернівський, Троїцько-Вишневецький та В’язівоцький. Виявлено вісім видів плазунів: по одному виду черепах і ящірок та шість видів змій. Усі види плазунів занесені до Європейського Червоного списку, п’ять – до Червоного списку Дніпропетров...

The conservation of biodiversity has become of global importance. The aim of our research was to determine the current species composition and abundance of herpetofauna in ecosystems influenced by the coal-mining industry. Our field studies were made in April-September 2015. We investigated abundance of amphibians and reptiles in ecosystems closed...

The concept of green infrastructure has been recently taken up by the European Commissionfor ensuring the provision of ecosystem services (ESS). It aims at the supply of multiple ESS in a given landscape, however, the effects of a full suite of management options on multiple ESS and landscape multifunctionality have rarely been assessed. In this pa...

Затверджено Міністерством освіти і науки України для використання у вищих навчальних закладах (лист № 1/11-11406 від 12.07.13)

Abstract Background: Floodplains are among the most diverse, dynamic, productive and populated but also the most threatened ecosystems on Earth. Threats are mainly related to human activities that alter the landscape and disrupt fluvial processes to obtain benefits related to multiple ecosystem services (ESS). Floodplain management therefore requir...

Content and polypeptide composition of the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) has been studied in cytoskeleton, membrane and soluble fractions of the sand lizard’s brain astrocytes from three ecosystems of different pollution levels. The metabolic disorders in nervous cells came out as increased content of degraded polypeptide fragments of GFAP...

Наведено інформацію про 424 види рідкісних і зникаючих тварин Дніпропетровської області.

Results of 7-years research of the grass snake population in forest ecosystems of the Samara River area (Dnipropetrovsk province, Ukraine) are presented. The population is of high abundance but have a tendency to decrease. Population’s sex ratio, spatial structure, snakes’ morphometric parameters and pholidosis are described. Those characteristics...

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) content has been studied in cytoskeleton and membrane fractions of sand lizard’s brain astrocytes from three ecosystems of different pollution levels. Changes in the GFAB expression argue for considerable metabolic disorders in the nervous system induced by environmental pollutants influence. State of the cyto...

Influence of the environmental pollution on the alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotrans-ferase activity in the blood serum of the sand lizard has been studied. Aminotransferases (ALT and AST) are similar by the mechanism of action. These enzymes take part in the amino acids metabolism. The increase of the transaminases activities under co...

1958). Еще большие трудности отмечаются при создании лесных насаждений на шахтных отвалах, где основной компонент находится в разбалансированном состоянием с нарушенными биотическими связями и почти полным отсутствием почвообразователей. Поэтому подбор пород деревьев, с одной стороны, должен быть устойчивым в несвойственных исходных экологических п...

Distribution of reptiles species in the different forest biogeocenoses of a steppe zone is investigated in the present article. Long-term researches proved the existence of a correlation between biogeocenotic parameters (e.g. humidity, soil properties, grass canopy development, crown density, etc.) and reptiles’ species richness in each particular...

Influence of the environmental pollution on the alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase activity in the blood serum of the sand lizard has been studied. Aminotransferases (ALT and AST) are similar by the mechanism of action. These enzymes take part in the amino acids metabolism. The increase of the transaminases activities under con...

Показано, що рийна активність часничниці звичайної Pelobates fuscus (Laurenti, 1768) в умовах забруднення ґрунтів важкими металами здатна позитивно впливати на вміст металів у ґрунті. Трофометаболічна активність (виділення екскрецій) земноводних (P. fuscus) і плазунів (ящірки прудкої, Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758) зменшує вміст важких металів у ґр...

It has shown that fossorial activity of common spadefoot Pelobates fuscus (Laurenti, 1768) under conditions of heavy metals pollution of soils is able to reduce the level of the metals in soil. Tropho-metabolic activity (faeces excretion) of amphibians (P. fuscus) and reptiles (sand lizard Lacerta agilis Linnaeus, 1758) decreases the content of hea...

The review of a general characteristic of amphibians and reptiles of the Dnipropetrovsk region is presented. The species diversity is characterized. The cadastre of amphibians and reptiles is specified and their role in natural processes is covered. The recommendations concerning the rational use and the organization of conservation measures under...

Content of the haemoglobin, erythrocytes, leucocytes and leukogram pattern in six reptile species of the central steppeDnieperregion are studied. Morphological features of the blood cells are described.

Morphological Abnormalities of Fishes from the Dneprovskoye Reservoir (on the example of Stizostedion volgensis). Novicki R. A., Gasso V. Ya. – Wide range of aberrations of internal and external characteristics of fish from the Dneprovskoye reservoir were determined. It was found new phenotypic deviations. 76.5% of individuals born in 1990—1991 had...

In some parts of the world, as with the steppe Dnieper region, anthropogenic influence on the environment has intensified to a large extent. Although there are other methods for assessment of populations and ecosystems, indices of metabolism are also able to indicate the state of populations.