Professor Virpi Lummaa - UTU Tutkimustietojärjestelmä

Virpi Lummaa
Professor

- Professor,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Department of Biology)

Department of Biology

virpi.lummaa@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2097

+358 50 438 2044

Vesilinnantie 5

Turku

Office: 242

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2128-7587

Human Life History Group

Myanmar Timer Elephant Project

Areas of expertise

Evolutionary ecology and genetics; human life history; natural selection; evolutionary biology of Asian elephants; ageing; senescence; behavioural ecology; lifespan; reproductive success; endocrinology; health; sex differences; socio-econimic differences;

Publications

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Tusks, testosterone and personality in male Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) (2025)
- Royal Society Open ScienceNature Communications
Huguet, Hoedric; Seltmann, Martin W.; Htut, Win; Briga, Michael; Lynsdale, Carly; Lummaa, Virpi
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Asian elephant calf physiology and mahout perspectives during taming in Myanmar (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
Crawley, Jennie A. H.; Nandar, Hnin; Zaw, Htet T.; Lahdenperä, Mirkka; Franco dos Santos, Diogo J.; Seltmann, Martin W.; Brown, Janine L.; Goodsell, Robert M.; Oo, Zaw M.; Htut, Win; Nyein, U. K.; Aung, Htoo H.; Lummaa, Virpi
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Enhancing Stress Assessment in Sledge Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): A Pilot Study on Infrared Thermal Imaging and its Opportunities for Advancement as a Welfare Assessment Tool (2024)
- Animal Behavior and Cognition
Liehrmann, Océane; Ollila, Anne; Lummaa, Virpi; Lansade, Léa; Seltmann, Martin
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Extracting Social Connections from Finnish Karelian Refugee Interviews Using LLMs (2024)
- CEUR Workshop ProceedingsJournal of Animal Ecology
Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024 (CHR 2024), Aarhus, Denmark, December 4-6, 202 Laato, Joonatan; Kanerva, Jenna; Loehr, John; Lummaa, Virpi; Ginter, Filip
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Fertility resilience varies by socioeconomic status and sex : Historical trends in childlessness across 150 years (2024)
- iScience
Salonen, Milla; Lahdenperä, Mirkka; Rotkirch, Anna; Lummaa, Virpi
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Grandmother effects over the Finnish demographic transition (2024)
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
Chapman, Simon N.; Lummaa, Virpi
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Menopause has not evolved as a general trait in mammals: A response to ‘Do mammals have menopause?’ (2024)
- bioRxiv
Chapman, Simon N.; Ellis, Samuel; Lahdenperä, Mirkka; Croft, Darren P.; Lummaa, Virpi
(Other publication)
Milk metabolite composition of a semi-captive population of Asian elephants (2024)
- Royal Society Open Science
Galante, Laura; dos Santos, Diogo Joao Franco; Mikkonen, Elisabeth; Horak, Jeannie; Stijepic, Zorica; Demmelmair, Hans; Vielhauer, Andrea; Koletzko, Berthold; Zaw, Htet Thi; Htut, Win; Lummaa, Virpi; Lahdenperä, Mirkka
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
No evidence of early life resource pulse effects on age‐specific variation in survival, reproduction and body mass of female Siberian flying squirrels (2024)
Le Coeur, C.; Berger, V.; Lummaa, V.; Wistbacka, R.; Selonen, V.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Reply to: Maternal capacity, twinning and fertility: the last birth matters2024
Courtiol, Alexandre; Vullioud, Colin; Rousset, Frnacois; Postma, Erik; Helle, Samuli; Lummaa, Virpi; Kylli, Ritva; Pettay, Jenni E.; Røskaft, Eivin; Skjærvø, Gine R.; Störmer, Charlotte; Voland, Eckard; Waldvogel Dominique; Rickard, Ian J.
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)