Mikhail Kozlov
PhD
mikoz@utu.fi +358 29 450 4273 +358 50 462 3157 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 344 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9500-4244 |
Ecology; entomology; environmental pollution; global change research; insect-plant interactions; fluctuating asymmetry; macroecology; metaanalysis
Current research project: The challenges of living in soil: why are plant roots underutilized by herbivorous insects? (2024–2028; Research Council of Finland).
I graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1984 and obtained a Ph.D. in entomology in 1986. From 1984–1991, I was employed by the All-Union Institute of Plant Protection in St. Petersburg, Russia. Since 1991, I have worked at the University of Turku, Finland.
Insects are my favourite study objects. I started as an entomologist working on the morphology and systematics of archaic moths, but then extended my interest to insect ecology. My environmental research addresses the impacts of industrial pollution on terrestrial biota; my current focus is on macroecology and global change impacts on trophic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems, particularly belowground.
- High tolerance to simulated root herbivory in hydroponically grown cuttings of Salix phylicifolia (2021)
- Journal of Forestry Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Latitudinal gradient in the intensity of biotic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems: Sources of variation and differences from the diversity gradient revealed by meta-analysis (2021)
- Ecology Letters
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe (2021)
- Global Ecology and Biogeography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Seasonal variations in bird selection pressure on prey colouration (2021)
- Oecologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The fluctuating asymmetry of the butterfly wing pattern does not change along an industrial pollution gradient (2021)
- Symmetry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Additions and Corrections to the Fauna of Moths and Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of the Kola Peninsula (Murmansk Oblast), NW Russia (2020)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Additions to the fauna of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia (2020)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associational resistance to a pest insect fades with time (2020)
- Journal of Pest Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Biases in estimation of insect herbivory from herbarium specimens (2020)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Bird predation does not explain spatial variation in insect herbivory in a forest-tundra ecotone (2020)
- Polar Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Roots and insect herbivory01.09.2024 - 31.08.2028
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- GILES01.01.2017 - 31.12.2019
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Endeeminen juuri- ja versoherbivoria muuttuvassa ilmastossa01.09.2014 - 01.09.2018
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology



