ID SCOPUS: 7005749743
ID ORCID: 0000-0001-9508-5008
DATE OF BIRTH: 16.12.1971
PLACE OF BIRTH: Penza
HOME INSTITUTION
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Red data book of the Penza region (fungi, lichen, moss, vascular plants). Second edition. Vol. 1/Ed. A.I. Ivanova. Penza, Penzenskaya Pravda, 2013.
- Artemova S., Leonova N. Forest-steppe landscape organization of Eastern Europe (Penza region) // J. Wetlands Biodiversity (2014) 4: 147-152.
- 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.
- 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.
- Electronic journal. URL:science-education.ru/120-15566 (access date: 26.11.2014).
- 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.
- Leonova N.A. Boreal pine forests of Oka-Don lowland in the Penza region. University Proceedings. Volga Region. Natural sciences. 2, 2014, 57-67.
- Leonova N.A. Wide-leafed forests of the south of the Penza region. University proceedings. Volga Region. Natural sciences. 4, 2015.