The Northeast Science Station, Pleistocene Park, global carbon and methane cycles, Pleistocene ecosystem reconstruction
Awards
Wolf Vishniac Award (1991)
Scientific career
Institutions
Northeast Science Station
Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov (Russian: Сергей Афанасьевич Зимов; born 18 July 1955) is a Russian geophysicist who specialises in arctic and subarctic ecology. He is the Director of Northeast Scientific Station (a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences), a senior research fellow of the Pacific Institute for Geography (an institute within the Far East Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FED RAS)), and one of the founders of Pleistocene Park (a 160 km2 wildlife preserve and a research substation of the Northeast Scientific Station). He is best known for his work in advocating the theory that human overhunting of large herbivores during the Pleistocene caused Siberia's grassland-steppe ecosystem to disappear and for raising awareness as to the important roles permafrost and thermokarst lakes play in the global carbon cycle.
According to a colleague, Sergey Zimov is the most cited Russian earth scientist.[1]
^Dr. Igor Petrovich Semiletov (IARC resume), Head of the Laboratory of Geochemistry in the Polar Regions at the Pacific Oceanological Institute in Vladivostok and representative of the FED RAS at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in an interview in 2011. See Елизавета Понарина (Elizabeta Ponarina), "Парниковое дыхание Арктики. Деградация подводной мерзлоты Восточно-Сибирского шельфа как причина возможных будущих быстрых климатических изменений." 30 December 2011, retrieved from the archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
Sergey Aphanasievich Zimov (Russian: Сергей Афанасьевич Зимов; born 18 July 1955) is a Russian geophysicist who specialises in arctic and subarctic ecology...
glacial period. The project is being led by Russian scientists SergeyZimov and Nikita Zimov, testing the hypothesis that repopulating with large herbivores...
responsible for up to a 10% reduction in carbon storage in tropical forests. SergeyZimov, a Russian scientist and proponent of Pleistocene rewilding, argues that...
the Kolyma River in 2010, where a team of Russian scientists led by SergeyZimov aims to prove that muskoxen, along with other Pleistocene megafauna that...
microorganisms Ivan Yefremov, paleontologist, sci-fi author, founded taphonomy SergeyZimov, creator of the Pleistocene Park Aleksandr Bakulev, prominent cardiovascular...
microorganisms Ivan Yefremov, paleontologist, sci-fi author, founded taphonomy SergeyZimov, creator of the Pleistocene Park Vladimir Bekhterev, neuropathologist...
theory, popularized the term "biosphere" and developed biosphere theory SergeyZimov, geophysicist specialising in arctic and subarctic ecology, known for...
Sviatoslav Zabelin, biologist, awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize SergeyZimov, creator of the Pleistocene Park Nikolai Zograf, zoologist Valeriy Zyuganov...
painter and sculptor György Matolcsy, Hungarian politician and economist SergeyZimov, Russian geophysicist and creator of Pleistocene Park July 19 – Karen...
Holocene, and in turn used to explain the extinction of the megafauna. SergeyZimov proposed the opposite: That the extinction of the megafauna caused the...
oxic to anoxic decomposition within the soil. A hypothesis promoted by SergeyZimov is that the reduction of herds of large herbivores has increased the...
Chang; Gerhard Krinner; Shushi Peng; Nicolas Viovy; Josep Peñuelas; SergeyZimov (2018). "The large mean body size of mammalian herbivores explains the...
Bibcode:2009GBioC..23.2023T. doi:10.1029/2008GB003327. ISSN 1944-9224. Zimov, Sergey A.; Schuur, Edward A. G.; Chapin, F. Stuart (2006-06-16). "Permafrost...
Arctic East Siberian shelf, Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9, 01071. Sergey A. Zimov (6 May 2005): "Pleistocene Park: Return of the mammoths' ecosystem"...
Elephant Cells, Popular Science, archived from the original on 26 March 2015 Zimov, S. A. (2005). "Essays on Science and Society: Pleistocene Park: Return...
Tarnocai, C.; Canadell, J. G.; Schuur, E. a. G.; Kuhry, P.; Mazhitova, G.; Zimov, S. (2009). "Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost...
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