ТиуновID SCOPUS: 6701328572

ID ORCID: 0000-0003-2400-3559

 

DATE OF BIRTH: 18.05.1962

PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow

 

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INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION AT THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

33 Leninsky Prospekt

11907, Moscow (Russia)

Tel.: +7 915 044 8434

E-mail: a_tiunov@mail.ru

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

Ph.D., D.Sc.

 

APPOINTMENT

Head of the laboratory

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • soil zoology;
  • interaction of micro- and macroorganisms in soil;
  • microbe activities and access of nutrition elements in soil;
  • trophic relations and networks in soil;
  • environment-building activity of soil animals;
  • diversity – ecosystem functioning;
  • isotope methods in ecology.

 

VISITNG SCIENTIST

2002-2003: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). Fellowship: “Trophic links and energy flows at basal levels of soil food webs: The use of stable isotopes”.

2000-2001: Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) and Russian Foundation for Basic research (Russia). Research project: “Effects of fluctuating temperature regimes on structure and functioning of soil systems”.

1996-1997: Volkswagenstiftung (Germany). Research project: “Soil fauna and microflora in middens of Lumbricus terrestris: The contribution of microhabitats in biological diversity in deciduous forests”.

 

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS

2014-2016: Russian Science Foundation (‘Roots of life: soil organisms in the dynamics of organic carbon of deep soil layers’)

2014-2016 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant (‘Structure of detrital food webs in forest ecosystems: integration of trophic levels and taxonomy groups’)

2011-2013 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant (‘Sources and ways of carbon entering soil detrital trophic nets – an isotopic study’)

2008-2010 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant (‘Structure of trophic nets in soils: isotopic studies in ecosystems of different climate and different productivity’)

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Five candidates of biological sciences

 

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES 

Russian Society of Soil Researchers

 

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

2015 – till present  –  ‘Ecology’ journal

2002 – till present  –  ‘Pedobiologia – International Journal of Soil Ecology’

 

TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS:  Around 80 publications in reviewed science journals

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS::

  1. Tiunov A.V., Scheu S. (2005) Arbuscular mycorrhiza and Collembola interact in affecting community composition of saprotrophic Oecologia, 142: 636-642.
  2. Ruess L., Tiunov A., Haubert D., Richnow H.H., Häggblom M.M., Scheu S. (2005) Carbon stable isotope fractionation and trophic transfer of fatty acids in fungal based soil food chains. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 37: 945-953.
  3. Tiunov A.V., Scheu S. (2005) Facilitative interactions rather than resource partitioning drive diversity-functioning relationships in laboratory fungal communities. Ecology Letters, 8: 618-625.
  4. Hättenschwiler S., Tiunov A.V., Scheu S. (2005) Biodiversity and litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 36: 191-218.
  5. Tiunov A.V., Hale C.M., Holdsworth A.R., Vsevolodova-Perel T.S. (2006) Invasion patterns of Lumbricidae into previously earthworm-free areas of north-eastern Europe and the western Great Lakes region of North America. Biological Invasions, 8: 1223-1234.
  6. Tiunov A.V. (2007) Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in soil and ecology studies. Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Biology Series, 4, 475-489.
  7. Tiunov A.V. (2009) Particle size alters litter diversity effects on decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 41: 176-178.
  8. Chigineva N.I., Aleksandrova A.V., Tiunov A.V. (2009) The addition of labile carbon alters litter fungal communities and decreases litter decomposition rates. Applied Soil Ecology, 42: 264-270.
  9. Belyaeva N.V., Tiunov A.V. (2010) Termites (Isoptera) in forest ecosystems of the Cát Tiên National Park (southern Vietnam). Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Biology Series, 4, 442-450.
  10. Tiunov A.V., Kirillova I.V. (2010) Stable isotope (13C/12C and 15N/14N) composition of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatishorn suggests seasonal changes in the diet. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24: 3146-3150.
  11. Bobrov A.A., Mazei Yu., Tiunov A.V. (2010) Testate amoebae of a monsoon tropical forest of South Vietnam. Acta Protozoologica, 49: 311-325.
  12. Uvarov A.V., Tiunov A.V., Scheu S. (2011) Effects of seasonal and diurnal temperature fluctuations on population dynamics of two epigeic earthworm species in a forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 43: 559-570.
  13. Semenina E.E., Tiunov A.V. (2011) Trophic fractionation (Δ15N) in Collembola depends on nutritional status: a laboratory experiment and mini-review. Pedobiologia, 54: 101-109.
  14. , Aleksandrova A.V., Marhan S., Kandeler E., Tiunov A.V. (2011) The importance of mycelial connection at the soil-litter interface for nutrient translocation, enzyme activity and litter decomposition. Applied Soil Ecology, 51: 35-41.
  15. Semenyuk I.I., Tiunov A.V., Golovatch S.I. (2011) Structure of mandibles in relation to trophic niche differentiation in a tropical millipede community. International Journal of Myriapodology, 6: 37-49.
  16. Dobrovolskaya M.V., Tiunov A.V. (2013) Neanderthals of Okladnikov Cave: environment and food according to isotope analysis data. Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia, 53 (1): 78-88.
  17. Shilenkova O.L., Tiunov A.V. (2013) Soil–litter nitrogen transfer and changes in δ13C and δ15N values in decomposing leaf litter during laboratory incubation. Pedobiologia, 56: 147-152.
  18. Filatova O.A., Witteveen B.H., Goncharov A.A., Tiunov A.V., Goncharova M.I., Burdin A.M., Hoyt E. (2013) The diets of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on the shelf and oceanic feeding grounds in the western North Pacific inferred from stable isotope analysis. Marine Mammal Science, 29(3): E253-E265.
  19. Goncharov A.A., Tiunov A.V. (2013) Trophic chains in soil. Journal of General Biology, 6: 450-462.
  20. Potapov A.M., Semenina E.E., Kurakov A.V., Tiunov A.V. (2013) Large 13С/12C and small 15N/14N isotope fractionation in an experimental detrital foodweb (litter-fungi-collembolans). Ecological Research, 28: 1069-1079.
  21. Fedosov A.E., Tiunov A.V., Kiyashko S.I., Kantor Yu.I. (2014) Trophic diversification in the evolution of predatory marine gastropods of the family Terebridae as inferred from stable isotope data. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 497: 143-156.
  22. Korobushkin D.I., Gongalsky K.B., Tiunov A.V. (2014) Isotopic niche (δ13C and δ15N values) of soil macrofauna in temperate forests. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 28: 1303-1311.
  23. Zalewski M., Dudek D., Tiunov A.V., Godeau J.-F., Okuzaki Y., Ikeda H., Sienkiewicz P., Ulrich W. (2014) High niche overlap in the stable isotope space of ground beetles. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 51: 301-312.
  24. Potapov A.M., Semenyuk I.I., Tiunov A.V. (2014) Seasonal and age-related changes in the stable isotope composition (15N/14N and 13C/12C) of millipedes and collembolans in a temperate forest soil. Pedobiologia, 57: 215-222.
  25. Semenina E.E., Anichkin A.E., Shilenkova O.L., Ermilov S.G., Tiunov A.V. (2015) Rapid extraction of invertebrates from tropical forest litter using modified Winkler apparatus. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 31: 191-194.
  26. Kudrin A.A., Tsurikov S.M., Tiunov A.V. (2015) Trophic position of microbivorous and predatory soil nematodes in a boreal forest as indicated by stable isotope analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 86: 193-200.