Laura Henriques Antão
PhD
laura.antao@utu.fi +358 29 450 2292 +358 50 343 5927 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 238 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6612-9366 |
Biodiversity; Global Change; Macroecology; Community Ecology
2025 – Assistant Professor, University of Turku
2024 – Academy Research Fellow
2021 – 2024 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Centre for Ecological Change, University of Helsinki
2018 – 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Centre for Ecological Change, University of Helsinki
2013 – 2017 Ph.D. Biology and Ecology of Global Change, University of St Andrews
I am a global change ecologist. My main research interests are biodiversity, macroecology and global change. I am particularly interested in biodiversity synthesis and biodiversity patterns, and how we can generalize information across taxa and habitats, and furthermore across scales. In my research, I examine patterns of biodiversity change over space and time using long-term data, and link these patterns to large scale environmental drivers, such as climate and land-use.
- The urban tree of life: quantifying relationships between body size and urban tolerance for more than 30,000 plant and animal species (2025)
- bioRxiv
(Other publication) - Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity (2025)
- Nature
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



