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
Fluctuating asymmetry of birch leaves did not increase with pollution and drought stress in a controlled experiment (2018)
Ecological Indicators
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Ambient temperatures differently influence colour morphs of the leaf beetle Chrysomela lapponica: Roles of thermal melanism and developmental plasticity (2018)
Journal of Thermal Biology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Do defoliating insects distinguish between symmetric and asymmetric leaves within a plant? (2018)
Ecological Entomology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Critical evaluation of faunistic data: Three species of monotrysian moths (Eriocraniidae, Prodoxidae and Incurvariidae) erroneously reported from Russia (2018)
Nota Lepidopterologica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) (2018)
Zootaxa
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
How Not to Study Fluctuating Asymmetry (2018)
Sibirskij lesnoj žurnal
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Ontogenetic changes in insect herbivory in birch (Betula pubesecens): The importance of plant apparency (2017)
Functional Ecology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Decreased losses of woody plant foliage to insects in large urban areas are explained by bird predation (2017)
Global Change Biology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
New records of Lepidoptera from Arkhangelsk oblast of Russia (2017)
Entomologica Fennica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))