Running projects
Curriculum Vitae
2026 – 2027 Post-Doc: Humboldt Fellow (Georg-Forster-scholarship)
Department of Conservation Biology, University of Göttingen
2011 – current Research Fellow
Association for the Conservation of the Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK)
2015 – 2021 PhD (Doctoral degree) Geosciences
Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Germany (supervised by Johannes Kamp and Norbert Hölzel)
Thesis: Effects of land-use change on keystone small mammal species in the steppes of Kazakhstan
2012 – 2013 MSc Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation, exchange student
University of Greifswald, Germany
2011 – 2013 MSc Biology Education
Gumilev National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
2005 – 2009 BSc Tourism
Turan University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Publications
Google Scholar
Koshkina, A., Kudrenko, S., Ordiz, A., Kamiyeva, S., Devenish, A., & Kamp, J. (2026). Drivers of human attitudes towards wolves Canis lupus in Kazakhstan. People and Nature (online early). https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70001
Koshkina, A., Smelansky, I., Tabelinova, A., Stephens, G., Jones, S., Salemgareev, A., Bowe, M. & Devenish, A. (2026). Drivers of human-saiga antelope conflict in semi-arid rangelands of West Kazakhstan. Biological Conservation 313: 111631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111631
Van Nuland, M. E., Averill, C., Stewart, J. D., Prylutskyi, O., Corrales, A., Van Galen, L. G., …, Koshkina, A., …, & van den Hoogen, J. (2025). Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected. Nature 645: 414–422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09277-4
Jo, W. K., Anzolini Cassiano, M. H., de Oliveira-Filho, E. F., Brünink, S., Yansanjav, A., Yihune, M., Koshkina, A., Lukashev, A. N., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Lebedev, V.S., Olayemi, A., Bangura, U., Salas-Rojas, M., Aguilar-Setién, Á, Fichet-Calvet, E. & Drexler, J. F. (2024). Ancient evolutionary origins of hepatitis E virus in rodents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 121: e2413665121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2413665121
Koshkina, A., Freitag, M., Grigoryeva, I., Hölzel, N., Stirnemann, I., Velbert, F., & Kamp, J. (2023). Post‐Soviet fire and grazing regimes govern the abundance of a key ecosystem engineer on the Eurasian steppe, the yellow ground squirrel Spermophilus fulvus. Diversity and Distributions 29: 395–408. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13668
Abaturov, B. D., Gorbunov, S. S., & Koshkina, A. (2021). Features of fodder vegetation as a possible cause of saiga die-offs on steppe pastures. Arid Ecosystems 11: 399–405. https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096121040028
Ronkin, V., Tokarsky, V., Polchaninova, N., Atemasov, A., Koshkina, A., & Savchenko, G. (2020). Comparative assessment of ecological plasticity of the steppe marmot between Ukrainian and Kazakhstan populations: Challenges of man-induced environmental changes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00219/full
Koshkina, A., Grigoryeva, I., Tokarsky, V., Urazaliyev, R., Kuemmerle, T., Hölzel, N., & Kamp, J. (2020). Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 6: 153–167. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.138
Munteanu, C., Kamp, J., Nita, M. D., Klein, N., Kraemer, B. M., Müller, D., Koshkina, A., Prishchepov A.V. & Kuemmerle, T. (2020). Cold War spy satellite images reveal long-term declines of a philopatric keystone species in response to cropland expansion. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287:1927. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2897
Koshkina, A., Koshkin, A. V., Timoshenko, A. Y., Koshkin, A. A., & Schielzeth, H. (2019). A population survey of the endangered White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala in Kazakhstan shows an apparently increasing Eastern population. Bird Study 66: 111–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2019.1618239
Kamp, J., Koshkin, M. A., Bragina, T. M., Katzner, T. E., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Schreiber, D., Sheldon, R., Shmalenko (Koshkina), A., Smelansky, I., Terraube, J. & Urazaliev, R. (2016). Persistent and novel threats to the biodiversity of Kazakhstan’s steppes and semi-deserts. Biodiversity and Conservation 25: 2521-2541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1083-0