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
Chapter 31: Pollution in forests (2025)
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa)Fluctuating asymmetry in ecological and environmental research: Quo vadis? (2025)
Functional Ecology
(B1 Vertaisarvioitu muu artikkeli (esim. pääkirjoitus, letter, comment) tieteellisessä lehdessä)
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)
Forest management affects ecosystem functioning (predation and herbivory) but not ecosystem constancy: A comparative study across four forest ecosystems around the world (2024)
Global Ecology and Conservation
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns (2024)
Global Ecology and Biogeography
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Fairy moths of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg, 1798 (Lepidoptera: Adelidae) from Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (2024)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Blind measurements did not confirm effects of forest fragmentation on fluctuating asymmetry of a tropical butterfly Morpho helenor (2024)
The Science of Nature - Naturwissenschaften
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Description of six new species forming the sumbana species group of the genus Nemophora Hoffmannsegg (Lepidoptera, Adelidae) from the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia (2024)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Challenging the value of a pseudoreplicated study: A comment to Liu et al. (2024) (2024)
South African Journal of Botany
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )