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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- 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. - Tick distribution and tick-borne pathogens in Finland - The tick project of the University of Turku (2016) Sormunen Jani, Laaksonen Maija, Penttinen Ritva, Klemola Tero, Vesterinen Eero, Hytönen Jukka, Sajanti Eeva, Hänninen Jari, Vuorinen Ilppo, Ruohomäki Kai, Sääksjärvi, Ilari
- Additive and non-additive effects of birch genotypic diversity on arthropod herbivory in a long-term field experiment (2015)
- Oikos
- 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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