Niklas Wahlberg

- Docent,
Department of Biology (Faculty of Science)

niklas.wahlberg@utu.fi

Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4

Turku

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.

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Morphology, molecules and fritillaries: approaching a stable phylogeny for Argynnini (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2006)
- Insect Systematics and Evolution
Simonsen TJ, Wahlberg N, Brower AVZ, de Jong R
Speciation in Pararge (Satyrinae : Nymphalidae) butterflies - North Africa is the source of ancestral populations of all Pararge species (2006)
- Systematic Entomology
Weingartner E, Wahlberg N, Nylin S
That awkward age for butterflies: Insights from the age of the butterfly subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2006) Wahlberg N
Negative density-distribution relationship in butterflies (2005)
- BMC Biology
Paivinen J, Grapputo A, Kaitala V, Komonen A, Kotiaho JS, Saarinen K, Wahlberg N
Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2005)
- Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Wahlberg N, Brower AVZ, Nylin S
Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers (2005) Wahlberg N, Braby MF, Brower AVZ, de Jong R, Lee MM, Nylin S, Pierce NE, Sperling FAH, Vila R, Warren AD, Zakharov E
Morphology versus molecules: resolution of the positions of Nymphalis, Polygonia, and related genera (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2003)
- Cladistics
Wahlberg N, Nylin S
Phylogenetic relationships of Phyciodes butterfly species (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae): complex mtDNA variation and species delimitations (2003)
- Systematic Entomology
Wahlberg N, Oliveira R, Scott JA
Towards a better understanding of the higher systematics of Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera : Papilionoidea) (2003) Wahlberg N, Weingartner E, Nylin S
Dynamic populations in a dynamic landscape: the metapopulation structure of the marsh fritillary butterfly (2002)
- Ecography
Wahlberg N, Klemetti T, Hanski I
Metapopulation structure and movements in five species of checkerspot butterflies (2002)
- Oecologia
Wahlberg N, Klemetti T, Selonen V, Hanski I
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
Natural history of some Siberian melitaeine butterfly species (Nymphalidae : Melitaeini) and their parasitoids (2001)
- Entomologica Fennica
Wahlberg N, Kullberg J, Hanski I
On the status of the scarce fritillary Euphydryas maturna (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) in Finland (2001)
- Entomologica Fennica
Wahlberg N
The phylogenetics and biochemistry of host-plant specialization in Melitaeine butterflies (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2001)
- Evolution
Wahlberg N
Comparative descriptions of the immature stages and ecology of five Finnish melitaeine butterfly species (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) (2000)
- Entomologica Fennica
Wahlberg N
Pattern of phylogenetic relationships among members of the tribe Melitaeini (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences (2000)
- Cladistics
Wahlberg N, Zimmermann M
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
Predicting the occurrence of endangered species in fragmented landscapes (1996)
- Science
Wahlberg N, Moilanen A, Hanski I