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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
67
Citations
14002
World Ranking
1625
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Boris R. Krasnov is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and biological sciences, focusing primarily on ecology, parasitology, and genetics.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to various topics such as animal ecology and behavior studies, research on Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites, as well as vector-borne infectious diseases. Further areas of focus include plant and animal studies, parasite biology and host interactions, evolution and genetic dynamics, and the study of mite species.

Their work has been published extensively across several scientific venues, including:

  • Parasitology Research
  • Parasitology
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Integrative Zoology
  • Ecological Entomology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Boris R. Krasnov include:

  • Irina S. Khokhlova
  • Georgy I. Shenbrot
  • Luther van der Mescht
  • Natalia P. Korallo-Vinarskaya
  • Maxim V. Vinarski

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Krasnov include:

  • "Drivers of compositional turnover are related to species' commonness in flea assemblages from four biogeographic realms: zeta diversity and multi-site generalised dissimilarity modelling," 2020, International Journal for Parasitology
  • "Latitudinal gradients in body size and sexual size dimorphism in fleas: males drive Bergmann's pattern," 2022, Integrative Zoology
  • "A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Dispersal-based versus niche-based processes as drivers of flea species composition on small mammalian hosts: inferences from species occurrences at large and small scales," 2021, Oecologia
  • "The compound topology of host-parasite networks is explained by the integrative hypothesis of specialization," 2021, Oikos

Krasnov's main fields of study include environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The subfields of focus emphasize ecology, genetics, evolutionary behavior, parasitology, and social psychology.

Best Publications

  • Species abundance and asymmetric interaction strength in ecological networks

    Diego P. Vázquez;Carlos J. Melián;Neal M. Williams;Nico Blüthgen

  • Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin?

    Miguel A. Fortuna;Daniel B. Stouffer;Jens M. Olesen;Pedro Jordano

  • Host specificity in phylogenetic and geographic space.

    Robert Poulin;Boris R. Krasnov;David Mouillot;David Mouillot

  • Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Fleas: A Model for Ecological Parasitology

    Boris R. Krasnov

  • Species abundance and the distribution of specialization in host–parasite interaction networks

    Diego P. Vázquez;Robert Poulin;Boris R. Krasnov;Georgy I. Shenbrot

  • Sex-biased parasitism, seasonality and sexual size dimorphism in desert rodents

    Boris R. Krasnov;Serge Morand;Hadas Hawlena;Irina S. Khokhlova

  • Host-habitat relations as an important determinant of spatial distribution of flea assemblages (Siphonaptera) on rodents in the Negev Desert.

    B. R. Krasnov;G. I. Shenbrot;S. G. Medvedev;V. S. Vatschenok

  • Effect of Air Temperature and Humidity on the Survival of Pre-Imaginal Stages of Two Flea Species (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae)

    Boris R. Krasnov;Irina S. Khokhlova;Laura J. Fielden;Nadezhda V. Burdelova

  • Flea species richness and parameters of host body, host geography and host ‘milieu’

    Boris R. Krasnov;Georgy I. Shenbrot;Irina S. Khokhlova;A. Allan Degen

  • Micromammals and macroparasites : from evolutionary ecology to management

    S. Morand;Boris R. Krasnov;Robert Poulin

  • THE EFFECT OF HOST DENSITY ON ECTOPARASITE DISTRIBUTION: AN EXAMPLE OF A RODENT PARASITIZED BY FLEAS

    Boris Krasnov;Irina Khokhlova;Georgy Shenbrot

  • Bartonella Infection in Rodents and Their Flea Ectoparasites: An Overview

    Ricardo Gutiérrez;Boris Krasnov;Danny Morick;Yuval Gottlieb

  • Phylogenetic signal in module composition and species connectivity in compartmentalized host-parasite networks.

    Boris R. Krasnov;Miguel A. Fortuna;David Mouillot;Irina S. Khokhlova

  • An Atlas of the Geographic Distribution of the Arvicoline Rodents of the World (Rodentia, Muridae: Arvicolinae)

    Georgy I. Shenbrot;Boris R. Krasnov

  • The Biogeography of Host-Parasite Interactions

    Serge Morand;Boris R. Krasnov

  • A tale of two phylogenies: comparative analyses of ecological interactions.

    Jarrod D. Hadfield;Boris R. Krasnov;Robert Poulin;Shinichi Nakagawa

  • Micromammals and Macroparasites

    Serge Morand;Boris R. Krasnov;Robert Poulin

  • The comparative ecology and biogeography of parasites

    Robert Poulin;Boris R. Krasnov;David Mouillot;David W. Thieltges

  • Spatial variation in species diversity and composition of flea assemblages in small mammalian hosts: geographical distance or faunal similarity?

    Boris R. Krasnov;Georgy I. Shenbrot;David Mouillot;Irina S. Khokhlova

  • Energy cost of ectoparasitism: the flea Xenopsylla ramesis on the desert gerbil Gerbillus dasyurus

    I. S. Khokhlova;B. R. Krasnov;M. Kam;N. I. Burdelova

Frequent Co-Authors

Irina S. Khokhlova
Irina S. Khokhlova Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Georgy I. Shenbrot
Georgy I. Shenbrot Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Robert Poulin
Robert Poulin University of Otago
A. Allan Degen
A. Allan Degen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Serge Morand
Serge Morand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Michal Stanko
Michal Stanko Slovak Academy of Sciences
Sonja Matthee
Sonja Matthee Stellenbosch University
Zvika Abramsky
Zvika Abramsky Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Michael Kam
Michael Kam Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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