Satu Ramula
PhD, adjunct professor
satu.ramula@utu.fi +358 29 450 4227 +358 50 465 3149 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/IDorcid.org/0000-0001-7795-0352 |
Demographic methods; invasive species; plant ecology; population ecology; soil microbiota; structured population models
2020- University lecturer in plant ecology, University of Turku
2015-2020 Academy of Finland research fellow, University of Turku
2006 PhD, Stockholm University
My research focuses on population ecology and invasive species. I am broadly interested in population-level ecological, evolutionary and methodological questions, including drivers of plant invasions, species interactions, and data quality issues. I often apply structured population models to understand spatial and temporal variation in wild populations, and to produce management recommendations.
I am a member of the science committee for the COMPADRE & COMADRE database (https://www.compadre-db.org) project to create an open-access database of matrix population models for both animals and plants from all over the world to facilitate its usage for scientific and teaching purposes. These databases are a repository of demographic data from (mostly) published literature. As the number of published matrix population models (MPMs) grows, so do the opportunities to ask exciting questions about plant and animal demography, ecology, and evolution at a global and cross-taxonomic scale. The underlying motivation behind COMPADRE and COMADRE is to facilitate this research by collecting, digitising, and archiving MPMs at a central repository in a standardised format.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JecNUpoAAAAJ&hl=en
Website: https://sites.utu.fi/popdyn
- Current courses:
- BIOL1007 Structure and function of plants
- BIOL4220 Biological data analysis: multivariate methods
- EKOL2110 Populations, communities, and ecosystems
- EKOL2111 Practical exercises in ecology
- EKOL2354 Identification of vascular plants in Finland
- EKOL2302 Terrestrial plant ecology, field course
- MAAN6154 Biogeography
- Glyphosate-based herbicide increases the number of foraging trips but does not affect the homing of Bombus terrestris (2025)
- Apidologie
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicide on learning and memory of the buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) (2024)
- Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Neglected puzzle pieces of urban green infrastructure: richness, cover, and composition of insect-pollinated plants in traffic-related green spaces (2024)
- Landscape Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Root, Nodule and Soil Bacterial Communities Associated With the Invasive Nitrogen-Fixing Lupinus polyphyllus (2024)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The invasive legume Lupinus polyphyllus has minor site-specific impacts on the composition of soil bacterial communities (2024)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Allelopathy by the invasive garden lupine inhibits the germination of native herbs (2023)
- Botany
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A standard protocol to report discrete stage-structured demographic information (2023)
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Biological flora of Central Europe – Lupinus polyphyllus Lindley (2023)
- Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Growth of invasive Lupinus polyphyllus (Fabaceae) is not affected by site invasion history (2023)
- Annales Botanici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Rhizobial benefits to an herbaceous invader depend on context and symbiotic strain (2023)
- Plant and Soil
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Soil Biota in a Nonnative Range has a Net Positive Effect on the Perennial Herb Lupinus polyphyllus (2023)
- The Ohio Journal of Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Glyphosate residues alter the microbiota of a perennial weed with a minimal indirect impact on plant performance (2022)
- Plant and Soil
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Glyphosate residues in soil can modify plant resistance to herbivores through changes in leaf quality (2022)
- Plant Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Introduced populations of the garden lupine are adapted to local generalist snails but have lost alkaloid diversity (2022)
- Biological Invasions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Soil microbiota explain differences in herbivore resistance between native and invasive populations of a perennial herb (2022)
- Journal of Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The economic costs, management and regulation of biological invasions in the Nordic countries (2022)
- Journal of Environmental Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The invasive herb Lupinus polyphyllus can reduce plant species richness independently of local invasion age (2022)
- Biological Invasions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Phenotypic plasticity masks range-wide genetic differentiation for vegetative but not reproductive traits in a short-lived plant (2021)
- Ecology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Population responses to observed climate variability across multiple organismal groups (2021)
- Oikos
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Annual mowing has the potential to reduce the invasion of herbaceous Lupinus polyphyllus (2020)
- Biological Invasions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)