Tero Klemola
Ph.D.
tero.klemola@utu.fi +358 29 450 4216 +358 50 412 6599 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8510-329X |
Areas of expertise
population cycles; insect outbreaks; tritrophic interactions; herbivory; plant-herbivore interactions; predator-prey interactions; parasitoids; ticks
population cycles; insect outbreaks; tritrophic interactions; herbivory; plant-herbivore interactions; predator-prey interactions; parasitoids; ticks
Biography
at Department of Biology, University of Turku
M.Sc. (animal ecology and systematics) 1995
Ph.D. (ecology) 1999
University lecturer 2012-
Research
My research has focused on cyclic population fluctuations of herbivores. During past two decades, I have used both experimental, observational and theoretical approaches for searching explanations to populations cycles of voles and birch-feeding moths in Fennoscandia. Currently, I also work on the project studying biology of the hard ticks (Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus) and tick-borne pathogens in Finland.
Teaching
| BIOL1601 Biologian perusteiden harjoitukset BIOL4051 Biologinen aineisto: johdatus tilastomenetelmiin BIOL4210 Biologinen aineisto: lineaariset mallit BIOL5201 Presenting and Publishing Scientific Data in Biology EKOL2108 Populaatioekologia EKOL4101 Ecological Interactions |
Publications 
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- Effects of silicon application on Betula pendula seedlings (2025)
- Canadian Journal of Forest Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Insights From Observations and Large‐Scale Field Experiments on Vole Population Cycles in Northern Europe: A 40‐Year Study of Predator–Prey Interactions (2025)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Living with ticks: Results of an online survey of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding ticks and tick-borne pathogens in academic environments across Europe (2025)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - There Goes the Neighbourhood—A Multi-City Study Reveals Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Commonly Occupy Urban Green Spaces (2025)
- Zoonoses and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Encountered by Dogs and Cats: A North European Perspective (2025)
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Blood meal analysis reveals sources of tick-borne pathogens and differences in host utilization of juvenile Ixodes ricinus across urban and sylvatic habitats (2024)
- Zoonoses and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Genomic signatures of hybridization between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus in natural populations (2024)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Public knowledge and awareness of tick-borne pathogens and diseases: A cross-sectional study in Ghana (2024)
- Current research in parasitology and vector-borne diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Crowdsourced tick observation data from across 60 years reveals major increases and northwards shifts in tick contact areas in Finland (2023)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - For the people by the people: Citizen science web interface for real-time monitoring of tick risk areas in Finland (2023)
- Ecological Solutions and Evidence
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Voles, shrews and red squirrels as sources of tick blood meals and tick-borne pathogens on an island in southwestern Finland (2023)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A curated DNA barcode reference library for parasitoids of northern European cyclically outbreaking geometrid moths (2022)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Does environmental adaptation or dispersal history explain the geographical distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland? (2022)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing migrating and local breeding birds in Finland (2022)
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Northern Fennoscandia via the British Isles: evidence for a novel postglacial recolonization route by winter moth (Operophtera brumata) (2021)
- Frontiers of Biogeography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Doubling of biomass production in European boreal forest trees by a four-year suppression of background insect herbivory (2020)
- Forest Ecology and Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Enhanced threat of tick-borne infections within cities? Assessing public health risks due to ticks in urban green spaces in Helsinki, Finland (2020)
- Zoonoses and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Investigating evidence of enhanced aerosol formation and growth due to autumnal moth larvae feeding on mountain birch at SMEAR I in northern Finland (2020)
- Boreal Environment Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland (2020)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - One out of ten: low sampling efficiency of cloth dragging challenges abundance estimates of questing ticks (2020)
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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