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Short Curriculum vitae
Prof. Dr. Luidmila A. Pestryakova
Born 26/12/1954 in Churapcha, USSR, married
Phone: +7 914 101 82 31
Email: lapest@mail.ru
Professional Experience
2010 – Full University Professor for “Palaeogeography”, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
2010 – Senior Research Officer, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
2003 – 2010 Senior Research Officer, Laboratory of Water ecosystem, Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, Yakutsk, Russia
1992 – 2010 Lecturer at the Department of Ecology, Yakutian State University, Yakutsk, Russia
2000 – 2003 Head of Water Ecosystem Laboratory, Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, Yakutsk, Russia
1978 – 1992 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Limnology, Faculty of Biology and Geography, Yakutian State University, Yakutsk, Russia
Education
2009 Habilitation in Geography, Alexander Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
1994 PhD in Biology, Limnological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
1972 – 1978 Diploma in Geography, Yakutian State University, Yakutsk, Russia
Field of interests
Diatom Analysis, Aquatic Ecology, Hydrobiology, Paleolimnology, Limnology, Ecosystem Analysis, Paleoclimatology, Ecology
Membership
Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of natural protection, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia
Member of the Russian Geographic Society, Russia
Member of the Yakutian Centre of Russian Botanical Society, Russia
Member of the Russian Society for Diatom Research, Russia
Member of Diatomomist School of Russia and CIS countries, Russia
Leading of field trips (with duration of more than 4 weeks)
>30 expeditions in Siberia (since 1978)
Selected 10 publications
Number of ISI-listed publications: 14
H-Index: 5
Citations: 53
Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Ulrike Herzschuh, Sebastian Wetterich, Mathias Ulrich. Present-day variability and Holocene dynamics of permafrost-affected lakes in central Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) //Journal of Quaternary Science.-2012.Volume 51, Pages 56-70.
A.A.Bobrov, S.Wetterich, F. Beermann, A. Schneider, L. Kokhanova, L. Schirrmeister, L.A. Pestryakova, U. Herzschuh (2013) Testate amoebae and environmental characteristics of polygon tundra in the Indigirka lowland (East Siberia)//Polar Biology Volume 36, No 6, Pages 857-870.
R. Zibulski, U. Herzschuh, L. A. Pestryakova, J. Wolter, S. M¨ uller, N. Schilling, S. Wetterich,L. Schirrmeister, and F. Tian (2013): River flooding as adriver of polygon dynamics: modern vegetation data and a millennial peat record from Anabar River lowlands (Arctic Siberia)//Biogeosciences . 2013. Т. 10. №8. С. 5703-5728. DOI:10.5194/bgd-10-4067-2013.
Juliane Klemm, Ulrike Herzschuh, Michael F.J. Pisaric, Richard J. Telford, Birgit Heim, Luidmila A. Pestryakova. A pollen-climate transfer function from the tundra and taiga vegetation in Arctic Siberia and its applicability to a Holocene record //Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2013. Volume 386, 15 September, Pages 702-713.
Biskaborn, B. K. , Subetto, D. A. , Savelieva, L. A. , Vakhrameeva, P. S. , Hansche, A. , Herzschuh, U. , Klemm, J. , Pestryakova, L. A. , Meyer, H. , Kuhn, G. and Diekmann, B. (2015): Late Quaternary vegetation and lake system dynamics in northeastern Siberia: Implications for seasonal climate variability//Quarternary Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.014.
Kathleen Rosmarie Stoof-Leichsenring, Ulrike Herzschuh, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Juliane Klemm,Laura Saskia Epp, Ralph. Genetic data from algae sedimentary DNA reflect the influence of environment over geography//Scientific Reports. 2015. Т. 5. С. 12924. DOI:10.2038/step12924
Klemm J., Herzschuh U., Pestryakova L.A. Vegetation, clima te and lake changes over the last 7000 years at the boreal treeline in north-central Siberia//Quaternary Science Reviews. 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.015.
Bastian Niemeyer, Juliane Klemm, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Ulrike Herzschuh (2015): Relative pollen productivity estimates for common taxa of the northern Siberian Arctic //Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 221 , pp. 71-82 . doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.06.008
Ulrike Herzschuh, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, L.A. Savelieva, Liv Heinecke,Thomas Böhmer, Boris Biskaborn, Andrei Andreev, Arne Ramisch, Avery L.C. Shinneman,H. John B. Birks. Permafrost, larch forests, and epigenetic thaw-lake ion content are a coherent geochemical functional entity in Siberia //Nature Communications 5 September 2013 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms 3408
L.B.Nazarova, L.A.Pestryakova, L.A.Ushnitskaya, H.-W.Hubberten. Chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidea) in lakes of central Yakutia and their indicative potential for paleoclimatic research//Contemporary Problems of Ecology. 2008, Vol. 1, No.3, pp.335-345.