Yakushov Vasily

Yakushov Vasily

Ph.D.
Research Scientist
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Research interests:

My research focuses on the long-term dynamics of small mammal populations and their responses to climate change. I am particularly interested in how environmental variability influences population cycles, community structure, and species interactions in northern ecosystems.

My Ph.D. research examined the population dynamics of small mammals in the middle Yenisei taiga in relation to climate warming. From 2017 to 2023, I investigated long-term changes in small mammal communities at the Yenisei Ecological Station ("Mirnoye").

My earlier research addressed the role of large rivers in shaping genetic differentiation among populations of insectivorous mammals.

In addition to ecological research, I develop educational resources for data analysis in ecology. I am the author of the "Introduction to Tidyverse" seminar series and the accompanying online course, which introduce modern R-based approaches for biological data analysis.

Publications (articles in the journals with rank Q1 are shown in bold)
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Bannikova A.A., Jenkins P.D., Lebedev V.S., Pavlova S.V., Yakushov V.D., Raspopova A.A., Zhu Y., Fang Y., Sun Y-H., Sheftel B.I. (2025) The morphological, chromosomal and molecular illumination of the dramatic diversity of the stripe-backed shrews, Sorex cylindricauda species complex (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae). Vertebrate Zoology 75: 227-243. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e153115
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Vasily D. Yakushov, Boris I. Sheftel (2024). Are population cycles recovering? Integrative Zoology; 19(3): 538-547.
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Zakharov V. M. et al. Developmental stability, population dynamics, and climate change, with particular reference to the common shrew (Sorex areneus L. 1758) in Central Siberia //Biology Bulletin. – 2023. – Т. 50. – №. Suppl 1. – С. S19-S24.
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Sheftel B. I., Yakushov V. D. Impacts of Climate Warming on Terrestrial Species in the Middle Yenisei Taiga //Contemporary Problems of Ecology. – 2022. – Т. 15. – №. 1. – С. 1-10.
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Kameneva P. et al. Serotonin limits generation of chromaffin cells during adrenal organ development //Nature communications. – 2022. – Т. 13. – №. 1. – С. 2901.
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Pavlova S. V. et al. High diversity of small insectivorous mammals on Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and first description of karyotype for four endemics of China //Scientific Reports. – 2021. – Т. 11. – №. 1. – С. 24496.
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Gorelysheva D. I. et al. Molecular and morphological characterisation of Syphacia petrusewiczi Bernard, 1966 (Nematoda, Oxyurida) from Russia //Russian Journal of Nematology. – 2020. – Т. 28. – №. 2. – С. 107-112.
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Yakushov V. D., Sheftel B. I. Is there a relationship between the Chitty effect and the types of population dynamics? //Doklady Biological Sciences. – Pleiades Publishing, 2020. – Т. 492. – С. 89-92.
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Sheftel Boris
Various types of population dynamics. Why do they replace each other? What is the role of global warming in this process? Dynamics of the community of small mammals and the populations included in them. How do these processes relate?