PUBLICATIONS

2022

• Verdú, M., … Kikvidze, Z., … 80 თანაავტორი, 2022. RecruitNet: A global database of plantrecruitment networks. Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3923
• Bussmann, Rainer W., Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Inayat Ur Rahman, Zaal Kikvidze, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Kikodze, Davit Tchelidze, Manana Khutsishvili, and Ketevan Batsatsashvili. 2022. “ერთიანობა მრავალფეროვნებაში-საქართველოს საკვები მცენარეები და სოკოები.” Ethnobotany Research and Applications 23: 1-69.

2021

• Losapio, G., Schöb, C., Staniczenko, P.P., Carrara, F., Palamara, G.M., De Moraes, C.M., Mescher, M.C., Brooker, R.W., Butterfield, B.J., Callaway, R.M. and Cavieres, L.A., 2021. Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(6), p.e2005759118.
• Jolokhava, T., Abdaladze, O., Gigauri, K. and Kikvidze, Z., 2021. Gradient analysis of soil-plant interactions from the alpine-nival ecotone to the snowline on slopes of the Central Great
  Caucasus (Kazbegi Region, Georgia). Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 78(3), pp.163-175.
• Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Ur Rahman, I., Kikvidze, Z., Sikharulidze, S., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M. and Batsatsashvili, K., 2021. Unity in diversity—food plants and fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 17(1), pp.1-46.
• Hengky, S.H. and Kikvidze, Z., 2021. Sustainable Coastal Tourism in Tanjung Kelayang, Indonesia. Tourism Planning & Development, 18(3), pp.365-370.
• Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2021. ზემო იმერეთის, უკანა ფშავის, მესხეთისა და პანკისის ხეობის ეთნობოტანიკა. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, pp.1-22.
• Busman, R.V., Sambrana, N.I.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Chelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2021. Upper Imereti, rear Pshavi, Meskheti and Pankisi gorge Ethnobotany. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, p.15.

2020

Book

• Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Georgia: A Short History of the Caucasus. Routledge.
• Kikvidze, Z. 2020. Ethnobiology of Georgia. Ilia State University

Article

• Kenar, N. and Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Climatic drivers of ecological divergence among the genera of the tribe Stipeae in Turkey. Flora, 270,151650.
• Jolokhava, T., Abdaladze, O., Gadilia, S. and Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Variable soil pH can drive changes in slope aspect preference of plants in alpine desert of the Central Great Caucasus (Kazbegi district, Georgia). Acta Oecologica, 105,103582.
• Jolokhava, T., Abdaladze, O., Asanidze, Z. and Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Distribution of plant species and the rock particle size in subnival habitats of the Central Great Caucasus. Soil Environ. 39(2): 194-203.
• Kikvidze, Z., Jolokhava, T., Bakhia, A. and Abdaladze, O., 2020. Jumping the barrier: does a glacier tongue affect species distribution along the elevation gradient in the subnival and nival belts? A case study on Mt. Kazbegi, Georgia, Central Great Caucasus Mountains. Botanica Serbica, 44(2), pp.219-229.
• Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Georgia: A Short History of the Caucasus. Routledge.
• Kikvidze, Z., 2020. Ethnobiology of Georgia. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, Ilia State University Press
• Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Darchidze, M., Manvelidze, Z., Ekhvaia, J., Kikodze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2020. From the sea to the mountains-plant use in Adjara, Samegrelo and Kvemo Svaneti, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 20, pp.1-34.
• Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2020. An ethnobotany of Kakheti and Kvemo Kartli, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 19,1-27.
• Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E. and Pieroni, A., 2020. Your poison in my pie–the use of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) leaves in Sakartvelo, Georgia (Caucasus) and Gollobordo, Eastern Albania. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 19,07.
• Bussmann, R.W., Zambrana, N.P., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K. and Hart, R.E., 2020. Plants in the spa–the medicinal plant market of Borjomi, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 19, p.06.
• Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. and Bussmann, R.W. eds., 2020. Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai. Springer International Publishing.
• Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. and Bussmann, R.W. eds., 2020. Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe: Ural, Northern Caucasus, Turkey, and Iran. Springer International Publishing.

2019

• Kenar, N. and Kikvidze, Z., 2019. Climatic drivers of woody species distribution in the Central Anatolian forest-steppe. Journal of Arid Environments, 169(10),34-41.
• Kikvidze, Z. and Brooker, R.W., 2019. Quantifying plant interactions: Independent reference is critical for standardising the importance indices. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), pp.397-401.
• Zenderland, J., Hart, R., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Khutsishvili, M. and Batsatsashvili, K., 2019. The use of “Use Value”: quantifying importance in ethnobotany. Economic Botany, 73(3), pp.293-303
• Tevzadze, G., Zhuravliova, E., Meparishvili, M., Lortkipanidze, T., Shanshiashvili, L., Kikvidze, Z. and Mikeladze, D., 2019. Effects of a Gut Microbiome Toxin, p-Cresol, on the Contents of the NMDA2B Receptor Subunit in the Nucl. Accumbens of Rats. Neurophysiology, 51(2), pp.72-76.

2018

• • Hengky, S. H., & Kikvidze, Z. (2018). Tourism sustainability in the Bogor Botanical Gardens, Indonesia. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 30, 8-11.
  • Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Sikharulidze, S., Kikvidze, Z., Kikodze, D., Tchelidze, D., Batsatsashvili, K., Hart, R.E. and Robbie, E., 2018. Unequal brothers-Plant and fungal use in Guria and Racha, Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 17(1), pp.7-33.
  • Tevzadze, G., Nanobashvili, Z., Zhuravliova, E., Bilanishvili, I., Shanshiashvili, L., Kikvidze, Z. and Mikeladze, D., 2018. Effects of a gut microbiome toxin, p-Cresol, on the susceptibility to seizures in rats. Neurophysiology, 50(6), pp.424-427.
  • Tevzadze, G., Oniani, N., Zhuravliova, E., Darchia, N., Eliozishvili, M., Gogichadze, M., Lortkipanidze, N., Oniani, T., Kakabadze, A., Kakabadze, Z. and Karalashvili, L., 2018. Effects of a gut microbiome toxin, p-cresol, on the indices of social behavior in rats. Neurophysiology, 50(5), pp.372-377.