Kai Ruohomäki
Lecturer
kairuo@utu.fi +358 29 450 4098 +358 45 7874 5766 Natura, yliopistonmäki Turku |
Areas of expertise
Ecology; Finnish Macorlepidoptera
Ecology; Finnish Macorlepidoptera
Research
Population ecology of the autumnal moth (Epirrita
autumnata), currently mainly interaction of parasioids and the moth host.
Teaching
Biology teacher education; Ecology, evolutionary biology and systematics. Diversity of invertebrates, including field courses.
Publications 
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- Larval parasitism rate increases in herbivore-damaged trees: a field experiment with cyclic birch feeding moths (2012)
- Oikos
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Multi-objective optimization shapes ecological variation (2012)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Experimental test of parasitism hypothesis for population cycles of a forest lepidopteran (2010)
- Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Folivorous larvae on flowers: do autumnal moths benefit from catkins of the mountain birch? (2010)
- Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hydrolysable tannins as a factor of rapid inducible resistance of mountain birch trees to herbivorous insects (2010) Proceedings of the XXVth International Conference on Polyphenols Ossipov V, Klemola T Ruohomäki K, Salminen J-P
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication) - Local outbreaks of Operophtera brumata and Operophtera fagata cannot be explained by low vulnerability to pupal predation (2010)
- Agricultural and Forest Entomology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The evolution of female flightlessness among Ennominae of the Holarctic forest zone (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) (2010)
- Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dispersal of females and differentiation between populations of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera : Geometridae) inferred from variation in mitochondrial DNA (2004) Snall, N (Snall, N); Huoponen, K (Huoponen, K); Saloniemi, I (Saloniemi, I); Savontaus, ML (Savontaus, ML); Ruohomaki, K (Ruohomaki, K)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Seasonally varying diet quality and the quantitative genetics of development time and body size in birch feeding insects (2001)
- Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Within-season variability of pupal period in the autumnal moth: A bet-hedging strategy? (1999)
- Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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