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Ecology and Evolution
Russia
2025

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Animal Science and Veterinary

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39
Citations
4862
World Ranking
1324
National Ranking
1

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
4961
World Ranking
6458
National Ranking
4

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  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Alexey A. Kotov is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation and has contributed significantly to fields related to Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Genetics.

The scientist's work focuses primarily on aquatic environments, with key research topics covering Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior. Additional areas of study include Marine and Environmental Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Among recent publications are:

  • A new species group from the Daphnia curvirostris species complex (Cladocera: Anomopoda) from the eastern Palaearctic: taxonomy, phylogeny and phylogeography, 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • World checklist of freshwater Cladocera species, 2021, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Non-Indigenous Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): From a Few Notorious Cases to a Potential Global Faunal Mixing in Aquatic Ecosystems, 2022, Water

Kotov frequently publishes in journals such as Zootaxa, Water, rej, Biology Bulletin, and PeerJ. These venues represent a variety of biological and environmental science journals where contributions have been made on topics ranging from taxonomy to ecology.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including Petr G. Garibian, Д. П. Карабанов, Anna N. Neretina, D. D. Pereboev, and Eugeniya I. Bekker, reflecting a network of cooperation across multiple research projects.

Best Publications

  • Global diversity of cladocerans (Cladocera; Crustacea) in freshwater

    L. Forró;N. M. Korovchinsky;A. A. Kotov;A. Petrusek

  • A checklist of names in Alona Baird 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) and their current status: an analysis of the taxonomy of a lump genus

    Kay Van Damme;Alexey A. Kotov;Henri J. Dumont

  • Revision of the genus Bosmina (Cladocera: Bosminidae), based on evidence from male morphological characters and molecular phylogenies

    Alexey A. Kotov;Seiji Ishida;Derek J. Taylor

  • The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus, 1761) (Crustacea, Onychopoda).

    S. Xu;P. D. N. Hebert;A. A. Kotov;M. E. Cristescu

  • DNA Barcoding Reveals High Cryptic Diversity in the North Eurasian Moina Species (Crustacea: Cladocera).

    Eugeniya I. Bekker;Dmitry P. Karabanov;Yan R. Galimov;Alexey A. Kotov

  • Revision of the Old World Daphnia ( Ctenodaphnia ) similis group Cladocera: Daphniidae)

    Ekaterina V. Popova;Adam Petrusek;Vladimír Kořínek;Joachim Mergeay

  • Mesozoic fossils (>145 Mya) suggest the antiquity of the subgenera of Daphnia and their coevolution with chaoborid predators

    Alexey A Kotov;Derek J Taylor

  • A revision of Leydigia Kurz, 1875 (Anomopoda, Cladocera, Branchiopoda), and subgeneric differentiation within the genus

    Alexey A. Kotov

  • A new divergent lineage of Daphnia (Cladocera: Anomopoda) and its morphological and genetical differentiation from Daphnia curvirostris Eylmann, 1887

    S. Ishida;A. A. Kotov;D. J. Taylor

  • The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism

    Alexey A. Kotov;Artem Y. Sinev;Viviana Lorena Berrios

  • Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of the south-east of the Korean Peninsula, with twenty new records for Korea*

    Alexey A. Kotov;Hyun Gi Jeong;Wonchoel Lee

  • Phylogeography of the Chydorus sphaericus Group (Cladocera: Chydoridae) in the Northern Palearctic.

    Alexey A. Kotov;Dmitry P. Karabanov;Eugeniya I. Bekker;Tatiana V. Neretina

  • A new species in the Daphnia curvirostris (Crustacea: Cladocera) complex from the eastern Palearctic with molecular phylogenetic evidence for the independent origin of neckteeth

    Alexey A. Kotov;Seiji Ishida;Derek J. Taylor

  • Redescription and assignment of the chydorid Indialona ganapati Petkovski, 1966 (Branchiopoda: Anomopoda: Aloninae) to Indialonini, new tribus

    Alexey A. Kotov

  • Analysis of Kozhowia Vasiljeva & Smirnov, 1969 (Chydoridae, Anomopoda, Branchiopoda), with a description of Parakozhowia n. gen.

    Alexey A. Kotov

  • Analysis of the Ilyocryptus spinifer-species group (Anomopoda, Branchiopoda), with description of a new species

    Alexey A. Kotov;Henri J. Dumont

  • An annotated checklist of the Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) from India.

    Tapas Chatterjee;Alexey A. Kotov;Kay Van Damme;S. V.A. Chandrasekhar

  • A revision of the subgenus Eurycercus (Eurycercus) Baird, 1843 emend. nov. (Cladocera: Eurycercidae) in the Holarctic with the description of a new species from Alaska

    Eugeniya I. Bekker;Alexey A. Kotov;Derek J. Taylor

  • Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Vientiane province and municipality, Laos

    Alexey A. Kotov;Kay Van Damme;Eugeniya I. Bekker;Somepong Siboualipha

  • Jurassic Cladocera (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) with a description of an extinct Mesozoic order

    Alexey A. Kotov

  • Separation of two Neotropical species: Macrothrix superaculeata (Smirnov, 1982) versus M. elegans Sars, 1901 (Macrothricidae, Anomopoda, Cladocera)

    Alexey A. Kotov;Tania Garfias-Espejo;Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez

  • Phylogeography of Daphnia magna Straus (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Northern Eurasia: Evidence for a deep longitudinal split between mitochondrial lineages.

    Eugeniya I. Bekker;Dmitry P. Karabanov;Yan R. Galimov;Christoph R. Haag

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Taylor
Derek J. Taylor University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Henri J. Dumont
Henri J. Dumont Ghent University
D. Christopher Rogers
D. Christopher Rogers Northeastern State University
Adam Petrusek
Adam Petrusek Charles University
Walter Traunspurger
Walter Traunspurger Bielefeld University
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Anton Brancelj
Anton Brancelj University of Ljubljana
Russell J. Shiel
Russell J. Shiel University of Adelaide
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Koen Martens
Koen Martens Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

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