Voles and Lemmings (Arvicolinae) of the Palaearctic Region

Boris Kryštufek is Professor of Zoology, Senior Curator at the Slovenian Museum of Natural History and Senior Scientist at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. He is a Visiting Professor at the Charles University, Prague and Associate Editor of Mammalia. He published widely on geographical variability, systematics and distribution of small terrestrial mammals of Europe, Asia, and Africa. He co-authored a three-volume Mammals of Turkey and Cyprus (2001, 2005, 2009), and co-edited Atlas of European Mammals (1999) and Balkan Biodiversity (2003). In the recent Handbook of the Mammals of the World, he co-authored accounts for hamsters Cricetidae (2017) and moles Talpidae (2018). The book Living with Bears – A Large European Carnivore in a Shrinking World (2003) which he co-edited and co-authored won a CIC Literary Award.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: bkrystufek@pms-lj.si

Georgy Shenbrot was until his retirement in 2019, a senior researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His main research interest is on small mammals and lizards under desert environment. He published 189 scientific articles. He is the principal author of the monograph on Jerboas and Birchmice in a series Mammals of Russia and Adjacent Regions (1995; Nauka Press, Moscow; English translation published in 2008 by Science Publishers Inc, Enfield, USA). He co-authored the Atlas of the Geographic Distribution of the Arvicoline Rodents of the world (2005; Pensoft) and the Spatial Ecology of Desert Rodent Communities (1999; Springer). In the recent Handbook of the Mammals of the World (Lynx Ediciones, Barcelona), he co-authored accounts for hamsters Cricetidae and jerboas Dipodidae (2017).

 Be'er Sheva, Izrael. E-mail: shenbrot@bgu.ac.il