Niklas Wahlberg

- Docent,
Department of Biology (Faculty of Science)

niklas.wahlberg@utu.fi

Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1259-3363

Research

I am currently a University Researcher at the Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biology, University of Turku. My main area of research is the systematics and evolution of the butterfly family Nymphalidae.

Publications

14 of 14

Metapopulation structure and movements in five species of checkerspot butterflies (2002)
- Oecologia
Wahlberg N, Klemetti T, Selonen V, Hanski I
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Inbreeding depression and the maintenance of genetic load in Melitaea cinxia metapopulations (2001)
- Conservation Genetics
Haikola S, Fortelius W, O'Hara RB, Kuussaari M, Wahlberg N, Saccheri IJ, Singer MC, Hanski I
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Natural history of some Siberian melitaeine butterfly species (Nymphalidae : Melitaeini) and their parasitoids (2001)
- Entomologica Fennica
Wahlberg N, Kullberg J, Hanski I
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
On the status of the scarce fritillary Euphydryas maturna (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) in Finland (2001)
- Entomologica Fennica
Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The phylogenetics and biochemistry of host-plant specialization in Melitaeine butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2001)
- Evolution
Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Comparative descriptions of the immature stages and ecology of five Finnish melitaeine butterfly species (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2000)
- Entomologica Fennica
Wahlberg N
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Pattern of phylogenetic relationships among members of the tribe Melitaeini (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences (2000)
- Cladistics
Wahlberg N, Zimmermann M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Phylogeny of Euphydryas checkerspot butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data (2000)
- Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Zimmermann M, Wahlberg N, Descimon H
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Predicting the occurrence of endangered species in fragmented landscapes (1996)
- Science
Wahlberg N, Moilanen A, Hanski I
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)