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 |
Areas of expertise
Ecology; entomology; environmental pollution; global change research; insect-plant interactions; fluctuating asymmetry; macroecology; metaanalysis
Ecology; entomology; environmental pollution; global change research; insect-plant interactions; fluctuating asymmetry; macroecology; metaanalysis
Research community or research topic
Current research project: The challenges of living in soil: why are plant roots underutilized by herbivorous insects? (2024–2028; Research Council of Finland).
Current research project: The challenges of living in soil: why are plant roots underutilized by herbivorous insects? (2024–2028; Research Council of Finland).
Biography
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.
Research
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.
Publications 
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- Can Larvae of Forest Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) Feed on Live Plant Roots? (2020)
- Insects
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Decline of Eulia ministrana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in polluted habitats is not accompanied by phenotypic stress responses (2020)
- Insect Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Doubling of biomass production in European boreal forest trees by a four-year suppression of background insect herbivory (2020)
- Forest Ecology and Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Latitudinal pattern in community-wide herbivory does not match the pattern in herbivory averaged across common plant species (2020)
- Journal of Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parasitoids indicate major climate-induced shifts in arctic communities (2020)
- Global Change Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predation and parasitism on herbivorous insects change in opposite directions in a latitudinal gradient crossing a boreal forest zone (2020)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Stinging wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera : Aculeata) of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, northern Russia (2020)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Three new species of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae) from Southeast Asia (2020)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Top-down factors contribute to differences in insect herbivory between saplings and mature trees in boreal and tropical forests (2020)
- Oecologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Variation in leaf size and fluctuating asymmetry of mountain birch (Betula pubescens var. pumila) in space and time: implications for global change research (2020)
- Symmetry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Principal investigator
- 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
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