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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- Foraging preference of barnacle geese on endophytic tall and red fescues (2019)
- Human-Wildlife Interactions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - High tick abundance and diversity of tick-borne pathogens in a Finnish city (2019)
- Urban Ecosystems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Opposite latitudinal patterns for bird and arthropod predation revealed in experiments with differently colored artificial prey (2019)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Physiological and compensatory growth responses of Jatropha curcas (L.) seedlings to simulated herbivory and drought stress (2019)
- South African Journal of Botany
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Factors affecting genetic and seed yield variability of Jatropha curcas (L.) across the globe: A review (2018)
- Energy for Sustainable Development
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Leaves, berries and herbivorous larvae of bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus as sources of metals in food chains at a Cu-Ni smelter site (2018)
- Chemosphere
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Local adaptations and phenotypic plasticity may render gypsy moth and nun moth future pests in northern European boreal forests (2018)
- Canadian Journal of Forest Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The importance of study duration and spatial scale in pathogen detection - evidence from a tick-infested island (2018)
- Emerging microbes & infections
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tick-borne pathogens in Finland; comparison of Ixodes ricinus and I-persulcatus in sympatric and parapatric areas (2018)
- Parasites and Vectors
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A field study with geometrid moths to test the coevolution hypothesis of red autumn colours in deciduous trees (2017)
- Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Crowdsourcing-based nationwide tick collection reveals the distribution of Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus and associated pathogens in Finland (2017)
- Emerging microbes & infections
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of Insect Herbivory on Bilberry Production and Removal of Berries by Frugivores (2017)
- Journal of Chemical Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hemispheric asymmetries in herbivory: do they exist? (2017)
- Journal of Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Insect herbivory may cause changes in the visual properties of leaves and affect the camouflage of herbivores to avian predators (2017)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Anaplasma phagocytophilum in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in southwestern Finland (2016)
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessing the abundance, seasonal questing activity, and Borrelia and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) prevalence of Ixodes ricinus ticks in a Lyme borreliosis endemic area in Southwest Finland (2016)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Herbivory by an outbreaking moth increases emissions of biogenic volatiles and leads to enhanced secondary organic aerosol formation capacity (2016)
- Environmental Science and Technology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impacts of simulated drought stress and artificial damage on concentrations of flavonoids in Jatropha curcas (L.), a biofuel shrub (2016)
- Journal of Plant Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - No regulatory role for adult predation in cyclic population dynamics of the autumnal moth, Epirrita autumnata (2016)
- Ecological Entomology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Northern geometrid forest pests (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) hatch at lower temperatures than their southern conspecifics: Implications of climate change (2016)
- European Journal of Entomology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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