fwk9mCEUeNwID SCOPUS: 6602820647

ID ORCID: 0000-0001-6815-3968

 

DATE OF BIRTH:02.08.1960

PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow

 

HOME INSTITUTION

Moscow State University

Leninskie Gory

119899, Moscow, Russia

Tel.: +7 (499) 9392573

E-mail: aiazovsky@mail.ru

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

2003  – D.Sc.  (Ecology)

1988  – Ph.D. (Ecology)

 

APPOINTMENT

2012 – till present – Professor at the Department of Hydrobiology, Moscow State University

1995 – 2012 – Associate Professor at the Department of Hydrobiology, Moscow State University

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • macro-ecology;
  • theoretical ecology;
  • marine ecology;
  • protozoan ecology;
  • structure of communities and species diversity;
  • ecological data analysis.

 

VISITNG SCIENTIST

2012: Annamalai University, Tamil-Nadu, India, with the support of Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS

1993-2013: 11 grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

1994-95: ISF grant  “Community models and model communities: theoretical ecology” № ISF MFS300

1993: Soros Foundation grant (programme ‘Biodiversity’)

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

2010 – Sapozhnikov F.B., ‘Coenosis of benthal micro-sea weeds of the Aral’ (candidate of biological sciences)

2009 – Chikina M.V. ‘Macro-zoo-benthos of loose earth of the North Caucuses coast of the Black Sea: spatial structure and long-standing dynamics’ (candidate of biological sciences)

2008 – Pavlova N.N. ‘Spatial and temporal changes of biological activity of urban soils (Obninsk case study)’ (candidate of biological sciences)

2005 – Chertoprud E.S. ‘Spatial and temporal changes of Harpacticoida (Copepoda) community of the White sea littoral zone’ (candidate of biological sciences)

1998 – Chertoprud M.V. ‘Diffrent-scale spatial inhomogenuity of benthos communities of the White Sea littoral zone’ (candidate of biological sciences)

 

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES

Russian Hydrobiology Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences

International Biogeographical Society

 

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

2010 – till present  –  Open Journal of Oceanography

 

 INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES

More than 10

 

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS:105

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Azovsky A.I., Mazei Yu.A. Do microbes have macroecology? Large-scale patterns in the diversity and distribution of marine benthic ciliates. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 2013, 22: 163–172
  2. Azovsky A., Saburova M., Tikhonenkov D., Khazanova K., Esaulov A., Mazei Yu. Composition, diversity and distribution of microbenthos across the intertidal zones of Ryazhkov Island (the White Sea). J. Protistol. 2013, 49 (4): 500-515
  3. Garlitska L., Neretina T., Schepetov D., Mugue N., De Troch M., Baguley J.G., Azovsky A. Cryptic diversity of the ‘cosmopolitan’ harpacticoids copepod Nannopus palustris: genetic and morphological evidence. Molecular Ecology 2012, 21: 5336–5347
  4. Azovsky A.I., Garlitska L.A., Chertoprud E.S. Broad-scale patterns in local diversity of marine benthic harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 2012, 460: 63-77
  5. Azovsky A.I. Species-area and species-sampling effort relationships: disentangling the effects. Ecography 2011, 34: 18-30
  6. Chertoprud E.S., Garlitska A., Azovsky A.I. Large-scale patterns in marine harpacticoid (Crustacea, Copepoda) diversity and distribution. Marine Biodiversity 2010, 40: 301–315
  7. Azovsky A.I. Structural complexity of species assemblages and spatial scale of community organization: a case study of marine benthos. Ecol. Complexity 2009, 6 (3): 308-315
  8. Mokievsky V.O., Udalov A.A., Azovsky A.I. Quantitative distribution of meiobenthos in deep-see zones of the World ocean. Oceanology, 2007, 47 (6), 857-874
  9. Azovsky A.I., Burkovsky I.V., Kolobov M.Yu., Kucheruk N.V., Saburova M.A., Sapozhnikov F.V., Udalov A.A., Chertoprud M.V. Self-similar character of spatial structure of littoral macro- and micro-benthos. Journal of General Biology, 2007, 68 (3), 180-194
  10. Azovsky A.I., Saburova M.A., Chertoprood E.S., Polikarpov I.G. Selective feeding of littoral harpacticoids on diatom algae: hungry gourmands? Mar. Biol. 2005, 148: 327–337
  11. Udalov A.A., Azovsky A.I., Mokievsky V.O. Depth-related pattern in nematode size: What does the depth itself really mean? Progress in Oceanography 2005, 67 (1-2): 1-23
  12. , Chertoprood E.S., Saburova M.A., Polikarpov I.G. Spatio-temporal variability of micro- and meiobenthic communities in the White Sea intertidal sandflat. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci 2004, 60 (4): 663-671
  13. Mokievsky V.O., Udalov A.A., Azovsky A.I. Quantitative distribution of meiobenthos on global continental shelf. Oceanology, 2004, 44 (1), 110-120
  14. Azovsky A.I., Mazei Yu.A. Conspectus of the Black Sea fauna of the benthic ciliates. Protistology 2003: 3 (2): 72-91
  15. Mokievsky V.O., Azovsky A.I. Re-evaluation of species diversity patterns of free-living marine nematodes. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 2002, 238: 101-108
  16. Azovsky A.I. Size-dependent species-area relationships in benthos, Or whether this world is more diverse for microbes? Ecography 2002, 25 (3): 273-282
  17. Hillebrand H. and Azovsky A.I. Body size determines the strength of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Ecography 2001, 24 (3): 251-256
  18. Azovsky A.I. Concept of scale in marine ecology: linking the words or the worlds? Web Ecology 2000, 1: 28-34 (http://www.oikos.ekol.lu.se/we/we.html)
  19. Azovsky A.I., Chertoprood M.V., Kucheruk N.V., Rybnikov P.V., Sapozhnikov F.V. Fractal properties of spatial distribution of intertidal benthic communities. Mar. Biol. 2000, 136(3): 581-590
  20. Azovsky A.I. The effect of scale on congeners coexistence: can mollusks and polychaetes reconcile beetles to ciliates? Oikos 1996, 77(1): 117-126
  21. Burkovsky I.V., Azovsky A.I., Mokiyevsky V.O. Scaling in benthos: from macrofauna to microfauna. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, Suppl., 1994, 99 (4): 517-535