2019

1. Tsyganov, A.N., Kupriyanov, D.A., Babeshko, K. V, Borisova, T. V, Chernyshov, V.A., Volkova, E.M., Chekova, D., Mazei, Y.A., Novenko, E.Y., Checkova, D.A., Mazei, Y.A., Novenko, E.Y., 2019. Autogenic and allogenic factors affecting development of a floating Sphagnum dominated peat mat in a karst pond basin. Holocene 29, 120–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683618804631
2. Singer, D., Metz, S., Unrein, F., Shimano, S., Mazei, Y., Mitchell, E.A.D., Lara, E., 2019. Contrasted micro-eukaryotic diversity associated with Sphagnum mosses in tropical, subtropical and temperate climatic zones. Microb. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-019-01325-7

2018

1. Azovsky, A., Mazei, Y., 2018. Diversity and distribution of free-living ciliates from the high-Arctic Kara Sea sediments. Protist 169, 141–157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2018.01.001
2. Connor, S.E., Colombaroli, D., Confortini, F., Gobet, E., Ilyashuk, B., Ilyashuk, E., van_Leeuwen, J., Lamentowicz, M., van_der_Knaap, W.O., Malysheva, E., Marchetto, A., Margalitadze, N., Mazei, Y., Mitchell, E.A.D., Payne, R.J., Ammann, B., 2018. Long-term population dynamics – theory and reality in a peatland ecosystem. J. Ecol. 106, 333–346. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12865
3. Krashevska, V., Malysheva, E., Klarner, B., Mazei, Y., Maraun, M., Widyastuti, R., Schoe, S., 2018. Micro-decomposer communities and decomposition processes in tropical lowlands as affected by land-use and litter type. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4103-9
4. Kutluk, H., Mazei, Y., 2018. Organic-walled fossil testate amoebae records (Late Cretaceous−Holocene) from the Neotethyan−Mediterranean region. J. Foraminifer. Res. 48, 121–141. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.48.2.121
5. Tran, H.Q., Mazei, Y., 2018. Testate amoebae from South Vietnam waterbodies with the description of new species Difflugia vietnamica sp.nov. Acta Protozool. 57.
6. Mazei, Y., Tsyganov, A.N., Chernyshov, V.A., Ivanovsky, A.A., Payne, R.J., 2018. First records of testate amoebae from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago (Russian Arctic). Polar Biol. 41, 1133–1142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2273-x
7. Novenko, E.Y., Tsyganov, A.N., Pisarchuk, N.M., Volkova, E.M., Babeshko, K. V, Kozlov, D.N., Shilov, P.M., Payne, R.J., Mazei, Y.A., Olchev, A. V, 2018. Forest history, peatland development and mid- to late Holocene environmental change in the southern taiga forest of central European Russia. Quat. Res. 89, 223–236. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.91
8. Mazei, Y., Lebedeva, N., Taskaeva, A., Ivanovsky, A., Chernyshov, V., Tsyganov, A., Payne, R., 2018. Influence of seabirds on soil testate amoebae in the Arctic. Polar Sci. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2018.03.001
9. Rudenko, O. V, Volkova, E.M., Babeshko, K. V, Tsyganov, A.N., Mazei, Y.A., Novenko, E.Y., 2018. Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and human impact in the catchment basin of the Upper Oka River (Mid-Russian Uplands): A case study from the Orlovskoye Polesye National Park. Quat. Int. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.019
10. Tsyganov, A.N., Novenko, E.Y., Babeshko, K. V, Mazei, N.G., Borisova, T. V, Mazei, Y.A., 2018. Postfire succession of mire ecosystems reconstructed using paleoecological analysis : A case study of Novoaleksandrovskoe Mire (Meshchera Lowland, Ryazan Oblast. Biol. Bull. 45, 512–518. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359018050151

2017

1. Elisabeth, H., Tikhonenkov, D. V, Martin, K., Javier, del C., Esaulov, A.S., Mylnikov, A.P., Keeling, P.J., 2017. Predators Reshape Holozoan Phylogeny and Reveal the Presence of a Two-Component Signaling System in the Ancestor of Animals. Curr. Biol. 27, 2043–2050.
2. Ratcliffe, J., Creevy, A., Andersen, R., Zarov, E., Gaffney, P., Taggart, M., Mazei, Y., Tsyganov, A., Rowson, J., Lapshina, E.D., Payne, R., 2017. Ecological and environmental transition across the forested-to-open bog ecotone in a West Siberian peatland. Sci. Total Environ. 607, 816–828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.276
3. Tsyganov, A.N., Babeshko, K. V, Novenko, E.Y., Malysheva, E.A., Payne, R.J., Mazei, Y.A., 2017. Quantitative Reconstruction of Peatland Hydrological Regime with Fossil Testate Amoebae Communities. Russ. J. Ecol. 48, 191–198. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413617020084
4. Novenko, E., Tsyganov, A., Payne, R., Mazei, N., Volkova, E., Chernyshov, V., Kupriyanov, D., Mazei, Y., 2017. Vegetation dynamics and fire history at the southern boundary of the forest vegetation zone in European Russia during the middle and late Holocene. Holocene. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617721331
5. Mazei, Y., Tsyganov, A., Esaulov, A., Tychkov, A., Payne, R., 2017. What is the optimum sample size for the study of peatland testate amoeba assemblages? Eur. J. Protistol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2017.09.004
6. Burkovsky, I. V, Mazei, Y.A., 2017. 21-year dynamics of marine benthic ciliate community in the White Sea intertidal flat: gradual or discrete? Russ. J. Ecosyst. Ecol. 2, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.21685/2500-0578-2017-2-1
7. Bobrov, A.A., Mazei, Y., 2017. A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia Penard, 1890 (Phryganellina: Cryptodifflugiidae) with a key to species. Zootaxa 4282, 292–308. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.4
8. Mazei, Y., Chernyshov, V., Bukhkalo, S., Mazei, N., Creevy, A., Payne, R., 2017. Exploring the ecology of testate amoebae in peatlands of Western Siberia. Acta Protozool. 56, 57–68. https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.17.0056969
9. Malysheva, E., Mazei, N., Shapovalov, M., Saprykin, M., Mazei, Y., 2017. Freshwater testate amoebae in the Belaya River bassin (Northwestern Caucasus). Inl. Water Biol. 10, 92–96. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082917010126
10. Qin, Y., Payne, R., Gu, Y., Mazei, Y., Xie, S., 2017. Short-term response of testate amoebae to wildfire. Appl. Soil Ecol. 116, 64–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.03.018
11. Geisen, S., Mitchell, E.A.D., Wilkinson, D., Adl, S., Bonkowski, M., Brown, M., Fiore-Donne, A.M., Heger, T., Jassey, V., Krashevska, V., Lahr, D., Marcisz, K., Mulot, M., Payne, R., Singer, D., Anderson, O.R., Charman, D., Ekelund, F., Griffiths, B., Rønn, R., Smirnov, A., Bass, D., Belbahri, L., Berney, C., Blandenier, Q., Chatzinotas, A., Clarholm, M., Dunthorn, M., Feest, A., Fernández, L., Foissner, W., Fournier, B., Gentekaki, E., Hajek, M., Helder, J., Jousset, A., Koller, R., Kumar, S., La Terza, A., Lamentowicz, M., Mazei, Y., Santos, S., Seppey, C., Spiegel, F., Walochnik, J., Winding, A., Lara, E., 2017. Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with. Soil Biol. Biochem. 111, 94–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.04.001
12. Shimano, S.D., Anatoly, B., Manfred, W., Mariusz, L., Yuri, M., Taisuke, O., 2017. Testate amoeba diversity of poor fen on mineral soil in the hilly areas of Central Honshu Japan. Acta Protozool. 56, p.211-216.

2016

1. Varotsos, C.A., Mazei, Y., Burkovsky, I., Efstathiou, M.N., Tzanis, C.G., 2016. Climate scaling behavior in the dynamics of the marine interstitial ciliate community. Theorectical Appl. Climatol. 125, 439–447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1520-0
2. Amesbury, M.J., Swindles, G.T., Bobrov, A., Charman, D.J., Holden, J., Lamentowicz, M., Mallon, G., Mazei, Y., Mitchell, E.A.D., Payne, R.J., Roland, T.P., Turner, T.E., Warner, B.G., 2016. Development of a new pan-European testate amoeba transfer function for reconstructing peatland palaeohydrology. Quarternary Sci. Rev. 152, 132–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.09.024
3. Azovsky A., Tikhonenkov D., Mazei Yu., 2016. Global diversity and distribution of the smallest eukaryotes: biogeography of marine benthic heterotrophic flagellates. Protist 98, 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2016.07.001
4. Krashevska, V., Malysheva, E., Klarner, B., Mazei, Y., Maraun, M., Widyastuti, R., Scheu, S., 2016. Land use and litter chemistry impact microbial decomposer communities and litter decomposition in tropical lowland land-use systems of Sumatra, Indonesia, in: Protistology, PROTIST-2016, International Scientific Forum (6-10 June, 2016). Moscow: Moscow State University, p. 39.
5. Mazei, Y., Belyakova, O., Coppellotti, O., Payne, R., 2016. Testate amoeba communities of epilithic mosses and lichens: new data from Russia, Switzerland and Italy. Acta Protozool. 55, 51–57. https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.16.006.4047
6. Tsyganov, A.N., Babeshko, K. V, Mazei, Y.A., 2016. A Guide to Testate Amoebae with the Keys to Genera. Penza State University Press Penza.
7. Novenko, E., Tsyganov, A., Rudenko, O., Volkova, E., Zuyganova, I., Babeshko, K., Olchev, A., Losbenev, I., Payne, R., Mazei, Y., 2016. Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation history, climate and human impact in the western Mid-Russian Upland: new data and a regional synthesis. Biodivers. Conserv. 25, 2453–2472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1051-8
8. Payne, R., Babeshko, K., van_Bellen, S., Blackford, J., Booth, R., Charman, D., Ellershaw, M., Gilbert, D., Hughes, P., Jassey, V., Lamentowicz, Ł., Lamentowicz, M., Malysheva, E., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y., Mitchell, E.A.D., Swindles, G., Tsyganov, A., Turner, T.E., Telford, R., 2016. Significance testing testate amoeba water table reconstructions. Quarternary Sci. Rev. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.030
9. Tsyganov, A., Mityaeva, O., Mazei, Y., Payne, R., 2016. Testate amoeba transfer function performance along localised hydrological gradients. Eur. J. Protistol. 55, 141–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2015.12.002
10. Payne, R., Greevy, A., Malysheva, E., Ratcliffe, J., Andersen, R., Tsyganov, A., Rowson, J., Marcisz, K., Zielinska, M., Lamentowicz, M., Lapshina, E., Mazei, Y., 2016. Tree encroachment may lead to functionally-significant changes in peatland testate amoeba communities. Soil Biol. Biochem. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.04.002
11. Payne, R.J., Malysheva, E., Tsyganov, A., Pampura, T., Novenko, E., Volkova, E., Babeshko, K., Mazei, Y., 2016. A multi-proxy record of Holocene environmental change, peatland development and carbon accumulation from Staroselsky Moch peatland, Russia. Holocene 26, 314–326. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615608692
12. Novenko, E.Y., Tsyganov, A.N., Volkova, E.M., Kupriyanov, D.A., Mironenko, I. V, Babeshko, K. V, Utkina, A.S., Viktor, P., Mazei, Y.A., Popov, V., Mazei, Y.A., 2016. Mid- and Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and fire history in the boreal forest of European Russia: A case study from Meshchera Lowlands. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 459, 570–584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.004

2015

1. Mazei, Y., Chernyshov, V., Tsyganov, A., Payne, R., 2015. Testing the effect of refrigerated storage on testate amoeba samples. Microb. Ecol. 70, 861–864. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-015-0628-1
2. Novenko, E., Tsyganov, A., Volkova, E., Babeshko, K., Lavrentiev, N., Payne, R., Mazei, Y., 2015. The Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of central European Russia reconstructed from pollen, plant macrofossil and testate amoeba analyses of the Klukva peatland, Tula region. Quat. Res. 83, 459–468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.03.006
3. Mazei, Y., Warren, A., 2015. A survey of the testate amoeba genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815 based on specimens in the E. Penard and C.G. Ogden collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Part 3: Species with shells that are spherical or ovoid. Protistology 9, 3–49.
4. Payne, R., Belyakova, O., Mazei, Y., 2015. Community structure and environmental controls on forest epiphyte testate amoeba communities from European Russia. Eur. J. Protistol. 51, 450–459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2015.02.006
5. Tikhonenkov, D. V, Burkovsky, I. V, Mazei, Y.A., 2015. Free-living heterotrophic flagellates of the sublittoral and bathyal zones of the Kara Sea. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 41, 194–202.
6. Tikhonenkov, D. V, Burkovsky, I. V, Mazei, Y.A., 2015. Is there a relation between the distribution of heterotrophic flagellates and the zonation of a marine intertidal flat? Oceanology 55, 711–723.

2014

1. Mazei, Y., Warren, A., 2014. A survey of the testate amoeba genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815 based on specimens in the E. Penard and C.G. Ogden collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Part 2: Species with shells that are pyriform or elongate. Protistology 8, 133–171.
2. Mitchell, E.A.D., Lamentowicz, M., Payne, R.J., Mazei, Y., 2014. Effect of taxonomic resolution on ecological and palaeoecological inference – a test using testate amoeba water table depth transfer functions. Quarternary Sci. Rev. 91, 62–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.03.006

2013

1. Azovsky, A., Saburova, M., Tikhonenkov, D., Khazanova, K., Esaulov, A., Mazei, Y., 2013. Composition, diversity and distribution of microbenthos across the intertidal zones of Ryazhkov Island (the White Sea). Eur. J. Protistol. 49, 500–515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2013.05.002
2. Azovsky, A.I., Mazei, Y.A., 2013. Do microbes have macroecology? Large-scale patterns in the diversity and distribution of marine benthic ciliates. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 22, 163–172. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00776.x
3. Romanova, N.D., Mazei, Y.A., Tikhonenkov, D. V, Sazhin, A.F., Azovsky, A.I., 2013. Heterotrophic microbial communities on the water-sediment boundary in the Kara Sea. Oceanology 53, 334–344. https://doi.org/10.1134/s0001437013030089
4. Malysheva, E.A., Mazei, Y.A., Yermokhin, M. V, 2013. Testate amoebae community pattern in different types of boundary structures at the water-land contact zone. Biol. Bull. 823–831. https://doi.org/10.1134/s106235901310004x

2012

1. Mazei, Y., Warren, A., 2012. A survey of the testate amoeba genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815 based on specimens in the E. Penard and C.G. Ogden collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Part 1: Species with shells that are pointed aborally and/or have aboral protuberances. Protistology 7, 121–171.
2. Mazei, Y.A., Marfina, O. V, Chernyshov, V.A., 2012. Distribution of soil-inhabiting testate amoebae along a mountain slope (Baikal Lake region, Khamar-Daban ridge, Cherskii peak). Biol. Bull. 39, 800–804. https://doi.org/10.1134/s1062359012100032
3. Tikhonenkov, D., Mylnikov, A., Gong, Y., Feng, W., Mazei, Y., 2012. Heterotrophic Flagellates from Freshwater and Soil Habitats in Subtropical China (Wuhan Area, Hubei Province). Acta Protozool. 51, 65–79. https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027ap.12.006.0389
4. Payne, R., Lamentowicz, M., van der Knaap, P., van Leeuwen, J., Mitchell, E.A.D., Mazei, Y., 2012. Testate amoebae as non-pollen palynomorphs. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 173, 68–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.09.006
5. Mazei, Y., Belyakova, O., Trulova, A., Guidolin, L., Coppellotti, O., 2012. Testate amoebae communities from caves of some territories in European Russia and North-Eastern Italy. Protistology 7, 42–50.
6. Bobrov, A., Mazei, Y., Chernyshov, V., Gong, Y., Feng, W., 2012. Testate amoebae communities from some freshwater and soil habitats in China (Hubei and Shandong provinces. Front. Earth Sci. 6, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-012-0310-6.
7. Mazei, Y.A., Malysheva, E.A., Lapteva, E.M., Komarov, A.A., Taskaeva, A.A., 2012. The role of the floodplain gradient in structuring of testate amoebae communities in the Ilych River. Biol. Bull. 39, 368–374. https://doi.org/10.1134/s1062359012040061
8. Fournier, B., Malysheva, E., Mazei, Y., Moretti, M., Mitchell, E.A.D., 2012. Toward the use of Testate Amoebae functional traits as indicator of floodplain restoration success. Eur. J. Soil Biol. 49, 85–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.05.008
9. Bobrov, A., Shimano, S., Mazei, Y., 2012. Two new species of testate amoebae from mountain forest soils of Japan and redescription of the genus Deharvengia Bonnet, 1979. Acta Protozool. 51, 51–55. https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027ap.12.005.0388
10. Tsyganov, A., Embulaeva, E., Mazei, Y., 2012. Distribution of soil testate amoeba assemblages along catenas in the northern taiga zone (Karelia, Russia). Protistology 7, 71–78.
11. Burkovsky, I. V, Mazei, Y.A., Esaulov, A.S., 2012. The stability of the species structure of the marine ciliate community to variations in environmental factors: The roles of physiological, population, and cenotic mechanisms. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 38, 43–55. https://doi.org/10.1134/s1063074012010038