Volodymyr Tytar currently works as a senior researcher in the Department of Evolutionary and Genetic Fundamentals of Systematics at the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS, Ukraine. Dr. Tytar is an expert in GIS technologies and biodiversity conservation, as well as ecological niche and species distribution modeling. Dr. Tytar is the author of more than 240 articles and abstracts and, since 1984, has been a candidate in biological sciences. Dr. Tytar's research interests include the evolutionary transformations of species in the anthropogenic environment, the study of the spatial structure of populations of model animal species with the involvement of technologies of geographic information systems, the creation of models of ecological niches, and the forecasting of changes.