Alexander V. Drits

Alexander V. Drits

Born 1955, Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Plankton Ecology, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IO RAS).

ResercherID: G-1171-2014
ScopusID: 87004424272
AuthorID: 62953
SPIN: 6406-3401

In 1978 graduated as hydrobiologist from Biology Department of Moscow State University. In 1981, he graduated from the post-graduate course of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IO RAS). In 1982 got Ph.D. thesis “Some regularities of feeding of different trophic groups of zooplankton”. From 1982 till present, he has been working at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS in Moscow. He participated in 15 complex oceanological expeditions to the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic oceans and Antarctica as well as Black, Mediterranean and Bering seas. He published more than 90 scientific papers.
Leader and participant of the RFBR projects. The latest include:
№ 16-05-00037 «Pelagic "biofilter" at the river-sea boundary: patterns of functioning in the large Arctic rivers estuaries.» 2016-2918. Leader.
№ 19-05-00022 «Role of zooplankton in biosedimentation of particulate organic carbon in the Arctic Siberian seas». 2019-2021. Leader.
№ 19-04-00322 «Role of zooplankton in biotransformation in ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic seas: hydrophysical and biological factors of variation». 2019-2021. Participant.
№ 18-05-60069 Arctic «Pelagic ecosystems of the Siberian Arctic seas under the current climatic changes: structure, production, fluxes of matter» 2018-2020. Participant.
His main research interests – Structure and functioning of pelagic ecosystems, ecology of marine zooplankton, the role of zooplankton in biotransformation of organic matter in different regions of the Ocean.

List of publications over the past five years (2015-2020):

  • Drits A.V., Arashkevich E.G., Nikishina A.B., Sergeeva V.M., Solovyev K.A., and Flint M.V. Mesozooplankton grazing impact on phytoplankton in the Northern region of the Kara Sea in autumn. Oceanology, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 595–605.
  • Drits A.V., Arashkevich E.G., Nikishina A.B., Sergeeva V.M., Solovyev K.A., and Flint M.V. Feeding of dominant zooplankton species and their grazing impact on autotrophic phytoplankton in the Yenisei estuary in autumn. Oceanology, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 573–582.
  • Pasternak A.F., Drits A.V., Abyzova G.A., Semenova T.N., Sergeeva V.M., and Flint M.V. Feeding and distribution of zooplankton in desalinated “lens” in the Kara Sea: impact of the vertical salinity gradient. Oceanology, 2015. Vol. 55, No. 6. pp. 863–870.
  • Drits A.V., Nikishina A.B., Semenova T.N., Sergeeva V.M., Solovyev K.A., and Flint M.V. Spatial distribution and feeding of dominant zooplankton species in the Ob river estuary. Oceanology, 2016, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 382–394.
  • Drits A.V., Pasternak A.F., Nikishina A.B., Semenova T.N., Sergeeva V.M., Polukhin A.A., and Flint M.V. The dominant copepods Senecella siberica and Limnocalanus macrurus in te Ob estuary: ecology in a high-gradient environment. Polar Biology, 2016, Vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 1527–1538.
  • Drits A.V., Pasternak A.F., and Flint M.V. Distribution and grazing of dominant zooplankton species in the Ob Estuary: Influence of the runoff regime. Estuaries and Coasts, 2017, Vol. 40, pp. 1082–1095.
  • Drits A.V., Belevich T.A., Ilyash L.V., Semenova T.N., and Flint M.V. Does Zooplankton Control Phytoplankton Growth in Coastal Waters of the White Sea in Spring? Oceanology, 2018, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 558–572.
  • Drits A.V., Pasternak A.F., Kravchishina M.D., Arashkevich E.G., Sukhanova I.N., and Flint M.V. The Role of Plankton in the Vertical Fluxin the East Siberian Sea Shelf. Oceanology, 2019, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 669–677
  • Drits A.V., Kravchishina M.D., Pasternak A.F., Novigatsky A.N., Dara O.M., and Flint M.V. Role of Zooplankton in the Vertical Mass Flux in the Kara and Laptev Seas in fall. Oceanology, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 841–854.
  • Sergeeva V.M., Drits A.V., and Flint M.V. Distribution and feeding of dominant zooplankton species under autumn coccolithophorid development in the eastern part of the Barents Sea. Oceanology, 2019, Vol. 59, No. 9, pp. 734–745

Address:
36, Nakhimovskyi prospekt, 117997, Moscow, Russia, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, e-mail: drits.av@ocean.ru