Также в сферу его интересов входили вопросы, касающиеся произрастания трав и прочей растительности в гористом районе Тараруа (англ.Tararua Range), где учёный часто совершал пешие прогулки. Кроме того, он опубликовал несколько работ по вопросам эрозии почв.
Виктор Дмитриевич был женат, у него было трое детей.
Избранная библиография
1928 Observations and experiments on the suckling clover content of the pastures on the school farm. Feilding Agricultural College Bulletin No. 7: 9-11.
1930 Notes on sexual expression in certain species of New Zealand Coprosmas. Transactions and Proceedings of the N.X. Institute 60: 547-56 (G. V. Wild and V. D. Zotov).
1930 A case of malformation in Clematis foetida. N. X. Journal of Science and Technology 11: 362-5 (H. H. Allan and V. D. Zotov).
1930 The canary grasses in New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Agriculture 40: 256-64 (H. H. Allan and V. D. Zotov).
1935 Pampas grass and its identification. N.X. Journal of Agriculture 50: 274-81 (H. H. Allan and V. D. Zotov).
1937 An artificial cross between Phormium colensoi and P. tenax. N.X. Journal of Science and Technology 18: 799—804 (H. H. Allan and V. D. Zotov).
1938 Survey of the tussock-grasslands of the South Island, New Zealand. Preliminary report. N.X. Journal of Science and Technology 20 A: 212-44 (N.X. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin No. 73, 1939, reprinted 1947. Abstract in Herbage Reviews 7: 89-90).
1938 Some correlations between vegetation and climate in New Zealand. N.X. Journal of Science and Technology 19: 474-87 (see also Report of Twenty-third Meeting of ANZAAS 1937: 339-40).
1938 An outline of the vegetation and flora of the Tararua Mountains. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of N.X. 68: 259—324 (V. D. Zotov, N. L. Elder, A. D. Beddie, G. O. K. Sainsbury, and E. A. Hodgson).
1940 Certain types of soil erosion and resultant relief features on the higher mountains of New Zealand. N.X. Journal of Science and Technology 2 IB: 256-62 (N.X. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Botany Division Bulletin No. 3).
1941 Pot-holing of limestone by development of solution cups. Journal of Geomorphology S: 71-3.
1942 An appreciation [Percy’s Reserve]. Wellington Botanical Society Bulletin No. 5: 3-4.
1943 Certain changes in the nomenclature of New Zealand species of Gramineae. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of N.Z. 73: 233-8.
1943 Rubber production in New Zealand. Trials with Kok-saghyz. N.Z. Journal of Agriculture 67: 75-8 (V. D. Zotov and E. P. White).
1949 New Zealand science abstracts. Botany. N.Z. Science Review 7: 80-1 (Abstractor: V. D. Zotov).
1951 Vegetation of the expedition area. In Poole, A. L. (Compiler). Preliminary Reports of the New Zealand-American Fiordland Expedition. N.Z. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 103: 51-7 (A. L. Poole, R. Mason, W. R. B. Oliver, and V. D. Zotov).
1953 Some factors determining the distribution of plants in New Zealand. Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Science Congress (Botany) 5: 156-8.
1957 A numerical study of the distribution of grasses in New Zealand. Proceedings of the N.Z. Ecological Society No. 4: 9-10.
1958 W. R. B. Oliver, F.R.S.N.Z. Wellington Botanical Society Bulletin No. 30: 7-9.
1963 Synopsis of the grass subfamily Arundinoideae in New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Botany 1: 78-136.
1965 Grasses of the Subantarctic Islands of the New Zealand region. Records of the Dominion Museum 5: 101—46.
1970 Chionochloa macra (Gramineae): a new species. N.Z. Journal of Botany 8: 91-3.
1971 Simplicia T. Kirk (Gramineae). N.Z. Journal of Botany 9: 539-44.
1971 Zoysia Willd. (Gramineae) in New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Botany 9: 639-44.
1973 Hierochloe R.Br. (Gramineae) in New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Botany 11: 561-79.
Примечания
Ссылки
Dell, R. K. Zotov, Victor Dmitrievich 1908—1977 (англ.). Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Правительство Новой Зеландии (updated 7 April 2006). Проверено 28 сентября 2009.
Thomson, A.D. Obituary: Victor Dmitrievich Zotov (1908—1977) (англ.) (pdf). (1977) v.15:781-784(недоступная ссылка — история). New Zealand Journal of Botany (1977 год). Проверено 28 сентября 2009.