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Ecology and Evolution
Russia
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

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40
Citations
9410
World Ranking
5997
National Ranking
2

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  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Alexei V. Tiunov is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on ecology and related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these disciplines, their subfields of study comprise:

  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Genetics

Alexei V. Tiunov's research covers several key topics such as:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Their recent published papers illustrate the range and focus of their work:

  • "Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates," 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs," 2021, Ecology
  • "Harnessing soil biodiversity to promote human health in cities," 2023, npj Urban Sustainability
  • "KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept," 2020, PeerJ

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Russian Journal of Ecology
  • Diversity
  • Ecological Entomology
  • Hydrobiologia
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Andrey G. Zuev
  • Stefan Scheu
  • Vladislav D. Leonov
  • Sergey M. Tsurikov
  • Oksana L. Rozanova

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity and Litter Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Stephan Hättenschwiler;Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

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  • Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in soil ecological studies

    A. V. Tiunov

  • Invasion patterns of Lumbricidae into the previously earthworm-free areas of northeastern Europe and the western Great Lakes region of North America.

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Cindy M. Hale;Andrew R. Holdsworth;Tamara S. Vsevolodova-Perel

  • Microbial respiration, biomass, biovolume and nutrient status in burrow walls of Lumbricus terrestris L. (Lumbricidae)

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Connecting taxonomy and ecology: Trophic niches of collembolans as related to taxonomic identity and life forms☆

    Anton A. Potapov;Eugenia E. Semenina;Anastasiya Yu. Korotkevich;Natalia A. Kuznetsova

  • Uncovering trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition.

    Anton M. Potapov;Anton M. Potapov;Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Soil fauna: key to new carbon models

    Juliane Filser;Jack H. Faber;Alexei V. Tiunov;Lijbert Brussaard

  • Facilitative interactions rather than resource partitioning drive diversity‐functioning relationships in laboratory fungal communities

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Microbial biomass, biovolume and respiration in Lumbricus terrestris L. cast material of different age

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Carbon availability controls the growth of detritivores (Lumbricidae) and their effect on nitrogen mineralization

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Effects of the presence and community composition of earthworms on microbial community functioning.

    Stefan Scheu;Natalie Schlitt;Alexei V. Tiunov;John E. Newington

  • A methodological framework to embrace soil biodiversity

    Stefan Geisen;Maria J.I. Briones;Huijie Gan;Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier

  • Carbon stable isotope fractionation and trophic transfer of fatty acids in fungal based soil food chains

    Liliane Ruess;Alexei Tiunov;Dominique Haubert;Hans H. Richnow

  • Microfungal communities in soil, litter and casts of Lumbricus terrestris L. (Lumbricidae): a laboratory experiment.

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Trophic Position of Consumers and Size Structure of Food Webs across Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems.

    Anton M. Potapov;Ulrich Brose;Stefan Scheu;Alexei V. Tiunov

  • Arbuscular mycorrhiza and Collembola interact in affecting community composition of saprotrophic microfungi

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • Microflora, Protozoa and Nematoda in Lumbricus terrestris burrow walls: a laboratory experiment

    Alexei V. Tiunov;Michael Bonkowski;Jörn Alphei Tiunov;Stefan Scheu

  • The addition of labile carbon alters litter fungal communities and decreases litter decomposition rates

    N.I. Chigineva;A.V. Aleksandrova;A.V. Tiunov

  • Priorities for research in soil ecology

    Nico Eisenhauer;Pedro M Antunes;Alison E Bennett;Klaus Birkhofer

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Matty P. Berg
Matty P. Berg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall Colorado State University
Jan Frouz
Jan Frouz Charles University
Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Juan J. Jiménez
Juan J. Jiménez Spanish National Research Council
Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Olaf Schmidt
Olaf Schmidt University College Dublin
Tancredi Caruso
Tancredi Caruso Queen's University Belfast
Bryan S. Griffiths
Bryan S. Griffiths Scotland's Rural College

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