Vitali Zverev
Ph.D.
vitzve@utu.fi Vesilinnantie 5 Turku |
Ecology, insect-plant interactions, environmental pollution
- Variation in fine root biomass along a 1000 km long latitudinal climatic gradient in mixed boreal forests of North-East Europe (2019)
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Реакции насекомых-фитофагов на одновременные изменения уровня загрязнения и климата: результаты долгосрочных наблюдений [Responses of herbivorous insects to simultaneous changes in pollution and climate: results of long-term monitoring] (2019) Экологические проблемы северных регионов и пути их решения Kozlov Mikhail, Zverev Vitali, Hunter Mark, Zvereva Elena
- Ambient temperatures differently influence colour morphs of the leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica: Roles of thermal melanism and developmental plasticity (2018)
- Journal of Thermal Biology
- Defence strategies of Chrysomela lapponica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larvae: relative efficacy of secreted and stored defences against insect and avian predators (2018)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Do defoliating insects distinguish between symmetric and asymmetric leaves within a plant? (2018)
- Ecological Entomology
- Fluctuating asymmetry of birch leaves did not increase with pollution and drought stress in a controlled experiment (2018)
- Ecological Indicators
- Temperature and herbivory, but not pollution, affect fluctuating asymmetry of mountain birch leaves: Results of 25-year monitoring around the copper nickel smelter in Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia (2018)
- Science of the Total Environment
- Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome (2017)
- Polar Biology
- Combined effects of environmental disturbance and climate warming on insect herbivory in mountain birch in subarctic forests: Results of 26-year monitoring (2017)
- Science of the Total Environment
- Decreased losses of woody plant foliage to insects in large urban areas are explained by bird predation (2017)
- Global Change Biology
- New records of Lepidoptera from Arkhangelsk oblast of Russia (2017)
- Entomologica Fennica
- Ontogenetic changes in insect herbivory in birch (Betula pubesecens): The importance of plant apparency (2017)
- Functional Ecology
- Reproducibility of fluctuating asymmetry measurements in plants: Sources of variation and implications for study design (2017)
- Ecological Indicators
- Strategies of chemical anti-predator defences in leaf beetles: is sequestration of plant toxins less costly than de novo synthesis? (2017)
- Oecologia
- Variation in defensive chemistry within a polyphagous Baikal population of Chrysomela lapponica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): potential benefits in a multi-enemy world (2017)
- Population Ecology
- Shelters of leaf-tying herbivores decompose faster than leaves damaged by free-living insects: Implications for nutrient turnover in polluted habitats (2016)
- Science of the Total Environment
- Two Birch Species Demonstrate Opposite Latitudinal Patterns in Infestation by Gall-Making Mites in Northern Europe (2016)
- PLoS ONE
- Abrupt changes in invertebrate herbivory on woody plants at the forest-tundra ecotone (2015)
- Polar Biology
- Background losses of woody plant foliage to insects show variable relationships with plant functional traits across the globe (2015)
- Journal of Ecology
- Consequences of long-term severe industrial pollution for aboveground carbon and nitrogen pools in northern taiga forests at local and regional scales (2015)
- Science of the Total Environment