ЛеоноваID SCOPUS: 7005749743

ID ORCID: 0000-0001-9508-5008

 

DATE OF BIRTH: 16.12.1971

PLACE OF BIRTH: Penza

 

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Penza State University

40 Krasnaya

440026 Penza, Russia

Tel.: +7 909-317-11-89

E-mail: na_leonova@mail.ru

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

2003 – Associate Professor at the Department of Botany

1999 –  Ph.D. (Ecology), thesis ‘Structure of Coenopopulation Ulmus glabre and Ulmus laevis in Interfluve and Floodplain Forests of Central Russia’, Moscow State Pedagogical University

1996 – Master of Biology, Pushchino State University

1994 – graduation from Penza State Pedagogical Institute with ‘teacher of biology and chemistry’ qualification

 

APPOINTMENT

2000 – till present – Associate Professor, Department of General Biology and Biochemistry

1996 –2000 Teaching Assistant, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Botany, Penza State Pedagogical University

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • population biology;
  • plant ecology;
  • structural and functional organization of forest ecosystems;
  • historical ecology;
  • phytocenology.

 

VISITNG SCIENTIST

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS

2016:  grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (“Project of Organizing Russian (with International Participation) Science School-Conference  ‘Current Concepts in Biosystems Ecology and Their Role in Solving the Problems of Nature Preservation and Management’ dedicated to 115th anniversary of A.A. Uranov”)

2014-2016: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (‘Relict Floral-Coenotic Complexes in Samara, Penza, Ulyanovsk Regions and the Republic of Mordovia’)

2016-2018: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (‘Model Reconstruction of Potential Forest Cover of the Russian Plain, North Caucasus and the Urals in Current Climatic Conditions’)

2013: grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (‘Research Project for Organizing the International Science Conference  ‘Forest Steppe of the East Europe: Structure, Dynamics and Preservation’ Dedicated to 140th Sprygin Anniversary’)

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

1 post-university research student

 

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES 

Russian Botanical Society

Russian Geographical Society

Society of Plant Physiologists

 

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

 

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS:  120

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Leonova N.A. Elm populations (Ulmus L.) in different lighting environment in old-age broad-leafed communities in Kaluga and Penza regions. Forest studies, 1999, 6, 59–64.
  2. Chistyakova A.A., Leonova N.A. Protected forest communities in European forest and steppe in Russia, opportunities for reconstruction (specially protected zones of the Penza region). Ecology, 2003, 4, 265–272.
  3. Chistyakova A.A., Leonova N.A. Mosaic organization and spontaneous dynamicss of quazi-climax nemoral communities. East-European Forests: History in the Holocene and the Present, Vol. 1/ Ed. O.V. Smirnova. Moscow. Nauka, 2004, 161–175.
  4. Yamashkin A.A., Artemova S.N., Novikova L.A., Leonova N.A., Alekseeva N.S. Landscape map and spatial regularities of natural differentiation of the Penza region. Problems of regional ecology, 1, 2011, 49-57.
  5. Red data book of the Penza region (fungi, lichen, moss, vascular plants). Second edition. Vol. 1/Ed. A.I. Ivanova. Penza, Penzenskaya Pravda, 2013.
  6. Artemova S., Leonova N. Forest-steppe landscape organization of Eastern Europe (Penza region) // J. Wetlands Biodiversity (2014) 4: 147-152.
  7. Leonova N.A. Space-time plants transformations of the upper plateau of the Volga Upland (in the Penza region). Fundamental research, 9, 2014, 81-85.
  8. Leonova N.A. History of land use and current state of plants of forest landscapes at lower plateau of the Volga uplands. Current issues in science and education, 2014, 6.
  9. Electronic journal. URL:science-education.ru/120-15566 (access date: 26.11.2014).
  10. Novikova L.A., Leonova N.A. Current calcicole plants of the Penza region. Proceedings of Samara Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2014, 16(5), 158-163.
  11. Leonova N.A. Boreal pine forests of Oka-Don lowland in the Penza region. University Proceedings. Volga Region. Natural sciences. 2, 2014, 57-67.
  12. Leonova N.A. Wide-leafed forests of the south of the Penza region. University proceedings. Volga Region. Natural sciences. 4, 2015.