Kai Ruohomäki
Lecturer
kairuo@utu.fi +358 29 450 4098 +358 45 7874 5766 Natura, yliopistonmäki Turku |
Ecology; Finnish Macorlepidoptera
Population ecology of the autumnal moth (Epirrita
autumnata), currently mainly interaction of parasioids and the moth host.
Biology teacher education; Ecology, evolutionary biology and systematics. Diversity of invertebrates, including field courses.
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- Biotic interactions outweigh direct climate effects in shaping subarctic mountain birch ecosystem: Insights from four decades of integrated monitoring (2026)
- Ecological Indicators
- Pitääkö nokkosperhosesta olla huolissaan?Tick distribution and tick-borne pathogens in Finland - The tick project of the University of Turku (2025)
- Baptria
- Using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning (2025)
- Oikos
- A curated DNA barcode reference library for parasitoids of northern European cyclically outbreaking geometrid moths (2022)
- Ecology and Evolution
- Pitääkö puutarhan pyjamaluteista huolestua? (2022)
- Turun Sanomat
- Investigating evidence of enhanced aerosol formation and growth due to autumnal moth larvae feeding on mountain birch at SMEAR I in northern FinlandAdditive and non-additive effects of birch genotypic diversity on arthropod herbivory in a long-term field experiment (2020)
- Boreal Environment ResearchOikos
- The End of Entomologica Fennica (2019)
- Entomologica Fennica
- Cold hardiness of Lymantria monacha and L-dispar (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) eggs to extreme winter temperatures: implications for predicting climate change impacts (2018)
- Ecological Entomology
- Local adaptations and phenotypic plasticity may render gypsy moth and nun moth future pests in northern European boreal forests (2018)
- Canadian Journal of Forest Research
- The recent northward expansion of Lymantria monacha in relation to realised changes in temperatures of different seasons (2018)
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Tick-borne pathogens in Finland; comparison of Ixodes ricinus and I-persulcatus in sympatric and parapatric areas (2018)
- Parasites and Vectors
- Crowdsourcing-based nationwide tick collection reveals the distribution of Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus and associated pathogens in Finland (2017)
- Emerging microbes & infections
- Assessing the abundance, seasonal questing activity, and Borrelia and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) prevalence of Ixodes ricinus ticks in a Lyme borreliosis endemic area in Southwest Finland (2016)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
- No regulatory role for adult predation in cyclic population dynamics of the autumnal moth, Epirrita autumnata (2016)
- Ecological Entomology
- Northern geometrid forest pests (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) hatch at lower temperatures than their southern conspecifics: Implications of climate change (2016)
- European Journal of Entomology
- Tick-borne bacterial pathogens in southwestern Finland (2016)
- Parasites and Vectors
Sääksjärvi I.E., Ruohomäki K., Vesterinen E.J. - 2016 Sormunen Jani, Laaksonen Maija, Penttinen Ritva, Klemola Tero, Vesterinen Eero, Hytönen Jukka, Sajanti Eeva, Hänninen Jari, Vuorinen Ilppo, Ruohomäki Kai, Sääksjärvi, Ilari
- (2015)
- Suomen 1 500 punkkilajista vain puutiainen ja taigapunkki levittävät borrelioosia ja puutiaisaivokuumetta (2015)
- Potilaan lääkärilehti
- Delayed density-dependent parasitism of eggs and pupae as a contributor to the cyclic population dynamics of the autumnal moth (2014)
- Oecologia
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