Dr. Sci. (Biology), Professor (Yakutsk, Russia).

Research interests: adaptation of populations and communities to the conditions of the North, transformation of the mammal population in conditions of increasing anthropogenic impact, bioindication of the anthropogenic impact on terrestrial ecosystems of the North, phenomenon of the fluctuating asymmetry in plants and animals as a reflection of disturbances in the developmental stability caused by the stressing effects of natural and anthropogenic character, ermatoglyphic characteristics of the population of Yakutia.

PhD thesis: Small mammals of the Northern Taiga of the Lower Reaches of the Indigirka River (1994).

Doctoral dissertation: Bioindication of the mining industry impact on terrestrial ecosystems of the North (2004).

Profile:

2018 – Chief Researcher, Laboratory of Ecosystem Studies of Cold Regions, Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia.

2016 – head researcher, Laboratory of Ecosystem Studies of Cold Regions, Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia.

1991 – Yakut State University, Department of General Biology, Yakutsk, Russia.

1979-1991 – Institute of Biology SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia.

Elena G. Shadrina is an expert in the field of theriology. She has been engaged in bioindication of the anthropogenic impact on the environment. She focused on an assessment of the environmental quality of technologically transformed and urbanized territories using characteristics of the developmental stability of plants and animals.

She has shown that the response of communities and populations of small mammals to the impact of the mining industry is similar to the changes observed at the northern boundary of the species distribution. The revealed responses are a universal non-specific response to pessimization of living conditions, which makes it possible to use them in assessment of environmental quality.

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