Tero Klemola
Ph.D.
tero.klemola@utu.fi +358 29 450 4216 +358 50 412 6599 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8510-329X |
population cycles; insect outbreaks; tritrophic interactions; herbivory; plant-herbivore interactions; predator-prey interactions; parasitoids; ticks
at Department of Biology, University of Turku
M.Sc. (animal ecology and systematics) 1995
Ph.D. (ecology) 1999
University lecturer 2012-
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.
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- Effects of silicon application on Betula pendula seedlings (2025)
- Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchEurosurveillance
- Insights From Observations and Large‐Scale Field Experiments on Vole Population Cycles in Northern Europe: A 40‐Year Study of Predator–Prey InteractionsThere Goes the Neighbourhood—A Multi-City Study Reveals Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Commonly Occupy Urban Green Spaces (2025)
- Ecology and EvolutionZoonoses and Public Health
- 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
- Repeated cross-sectional surveys show a decreasing trend in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato seroprevalence over a 50-year period, Finland, 1966 to 2017 (2025)
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- Tick‐Borne Viruses in Finland: Public Health Risks, Interventions and Research Insights (2025)
- Veterinary Medicine and Science
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Encountered by Dogs and Cats: A North European PerspectivePublic knowledge and awareness of tick-borne pathogens and diseases: A cross-sectional study in Ghana (2025)
- Transboundary and Emerging DiseasesCurrent research in parasitology and vector-borne diseases
- Blood meal analysis reveals sources of tick-borne pathogens and differences in host utilization of juvenile Ixodes ricinus across urban and sylvatic habitatsCrowdsourced tick observation data from across 60 years reveals major increases and northwards shifts in tick contact areas in Finland (2024)
- Zoonoses and Public HealthScientific Reports
- Genomic signatures of hybridization between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus in natural populationsFor the people by the people: Citizen science web interface for real-time monitoring of tick risk areas in Finland (2024)
- Ecology and EvolutionEcological Solutions and Evidence
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- 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
- A curated DNA barcode reference library for parasitoids of northern European cyclically outbreaking geometrid moths (2022)
- Ecology and Evolution
- Does environmental adaptation or dispersal history explain the geographical distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland?Enhanced threat of tick-borne infections within cities? Assessing public health risks due to ticks in urban green spaces in Helsinki, Finland (2022)
- Ecology and EvolutionZoonoses and Public Health
- Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing migrating and local breeding birds in Finland (2022)
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
- Northern Fennoscandia via the British Isles: evidence for a novel postglacial recolonization route by winter moth (Operophtera brumata) (2021)
- Frontiers of Biogeography
- Doubling of biomass production in European boreal forest trees by a four-year suppression of background insect herbivory (2020)
- Forest Ecology and Management
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- 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
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