Mikhail
Kozlov
Docent, Faculty of Science
Senior Research Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
PhD
Areas of expertise
ecology
entomology
environmental pollution
global change research
insect-plant interactions
fluctuating asymmetry
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 global change impacts on trophic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems.
Publications
Losses of Foliage to Defoliating Insects Increase with Leaf Damage Diversity Due to the Complementarity Effect (2025)
Insects
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Editorial: Changes in plant–herbivore interactions across time scales: bridging paleoecology and contemporary ecology (2025)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
(B1 Vertaisarvioitu muu artikkeli (esim. pääkirjoitus, letter, comment) tieteellisessä lehdessä)
A taxonomic revision of the tristrigella species group of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae) from the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia (2025)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Chapter 31: Pollution in forests (2025)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Birch Populations in Residential Areas of St. Petersburg, Russia, from 2002 to 2022 (2025)
Earth
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Fluctuating asymmetry in ecological and environmental research: Quo vadis? (2025)
Functional Ecology
(B1 Vertaisarvioitu muu artikkeli (esim. pääkirjoitus, letter, comment) tieteellisessä lehdessä)
Offspring performance does not explain oviposition preference in the leafminer Stigmella sorbi (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae): a tri‐trophic perspective (2025)
Insect Science
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Cross-cultural data on romantic love and mate preferences from 117,293 participants across 175 countries (2025)
Scientific Data
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu data-artikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)
Searching for a universal indicator of plant stress: a three-year study of three woody species in three environmental gradients in boreal forests (2025)
Journal of Forestry Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Effects of industrial pollution and ambient air temperature on larval performance and population dynamics of Eriocrania leafminers (Lepidoptera) (2024)
Science of the Total Environment
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )