Otso Suominen
PhD
otsosuo@utu.fi +358 29 450 2333 +358 40 486 0282 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku |
Areas of expertise
Community ecology; ecological interactions; herbivory; biodiversity; arctic; cervids; gastropods; climate change impacts in the north
Community ecology; ecological interactions; herbivory; biodiversity; arctic; cervids; gastropods; climate change impacts in the north
Research
The impacts of herbivores on boreal and arctic communities and ecosystems, deer biology, climate change imapcts in the norrthern boreal and arctic eocystems
Teaching
Subarctic ecology; winter ecology; grazing ecology
Publications 
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- Moose density and habitat productivity affects reproduction, growth and species composition in field layer vegetation (2010)
- Journal of Vegetation Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of mammalian herbivores on revegetation of disturbed areas in the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Fennoscandia (2005)
- Landscape Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Importance of large and small mammalian herbivores for the plant community structure in the forest tundra ecotone (2004)
- Oikos
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gastropod diversity in aspen stands in coastal northern Sweden (2003)
- Forest Ecology and Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impact of reindeer grazing on ground-dwelling Carabidae and Curculionidae assemblages in Lapland (2003)
- Ecography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impacts of semi-domesticated reindeer on structure of tundra and forest communities in Fennoscandia: a review (2000)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impact of cervid browsing and grazing on the terrestrial gastropod fauna in the boreal forests of Fennoscandia (1999)
- Ecography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Indirect effects of mammalian browsers on vegetation and ground-dwelling insects in an Alaskan floodplain (1999)
- Ecoscience -Quebec-
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Moose, trees, and ground-living invertebrates: indirect interactions in Swedish pine forests (1999)
- Oikos
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Variation in quality of mountain birch and tea-leaved willow for mammal and insect herbivores: Differences among trees, among sites and between tree species (1997)
- Ecography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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