Erkki Korpimäki
ekorpi@utu.fi Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 212 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7596-1955 |
Ecology, Evolution
A total of 284 articles published in international scientific journals with
referee practice and 1 scientific monograph during 1978-2018, as well as 27 Ph.D. theses
supervised during 1993-2018 (see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erkki_Korpimaeki
for more complete list of publications). Most of these papers have been
published in high-quality international natural science, ecology and behavioural
ecology journals, including Nature (3 papers in 1993-2018), Trends Ecol. Evol.
(3), Biol. Reviews (2), Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (12), BioScience (2), Global
Change Biol. (2), PLoS one (6), Ecol. Monogr. (2), Ecology (9), J. Anim. Ecol.
(14), Oikos (34), Oecologia (20), Ecol. Letters (1), Ecography (5), Methods in
Ecol. Evol. (1), Biol. Cons. (2), Ecoscience (7), Funct. Ecol. (2), Evol. Ecol.
(5), Evol. Ecol. Res. (1), Behav. Ecol. (3), Anim. Behav. (5), and Behav. Ecol.
Sociobiol. (8). These papers are also highly cited: a total of >11500 citations
in Web of Sci. during 1984-2018 (h-index 62).
Our team does research in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Our current project is on population dynamics, reproductive success, dispersal and survival of avian predators in relation to habitat change (e.g. forest loss and intensification of agricultural practices) and climate change in northern ecosystems.
There is a pressing need to understand how changing climate interacts with land-use change to affect predator-prey interactions in fragmented landscapes. This is particularly true in boreal ecosystems facing fast climate change and intensification in forestry practices. We investigate the relative influence of climate changes and habitat loss and degradation on the food storing behaviour, body condition, over-winter survival, reproductive success and costs of reproduction of a generalist predator in boreal forest. Our model species is the pygmy owl, and its main food resources, small rodents and birds. We have collected a unique dataset of >20 000 prey items accumulated in larders of pygmy owls in autumns during 2002-2018.
- Habitat use of coexisting Microtus vole species under competition and predation risk (2018)
- Canadian Journal of Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predation risk landscape modifies flying and red squirrel nest site occupancy independently of habitat amount (2018)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Simulated owl predation risk to voles modifies browsing effects on tree seedling growth (2018)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Why do top predators engage in superpredation? From an empirical scenario to a theoretical framework (2018)
- Oikos
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Competitors and predators alter settlement patterns and reproductive success of an intraguild prey (2017)
- Ecological Monographs
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Food supplementation and predation risk in harsh climate: interactive effects on abundance and body condition of tit species (2017)
- Oikos
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Food supplementation, but not predation risk, alters female antioxidant status during breeding (2017)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ilkka Hanski and small mammals: from shrew metapopulations to vole and lemming cycles (2017)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Increased autumn rainfall disrupts predator-prey interactions in fragmented boreal forests (2017)
- Global Change Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Food abundance and weather modify reproduction of two arboreal squirrel species (2016)
- Journal of Mammalogy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Guardian or threat: does golden eagle predation risk have cascading effects on forest grouse? (2016)
- Oecologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole-nesting birds (2016)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal transfer of androgens in eggs is affected by food supplementation but not by predation risk (2016)
- Journal of Avian Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mobility of a small mammalian predator changes according to the activity patterns of potential intraguild predators (2016)
- Journal of Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predator presence, but not food supplementation, affects forest red squirrels in winter (2016)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predator–rodent–plant interactions along a coast–inland gradient in Fennoscandian tundra (2016)
- Ecography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al. (2016)
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies (2015)
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Avian top predator and the landscape of fear: responses of mammalian mesopredators to risk imposed by the golden eagle (2015)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Coping with fast climate change in northern ecosystems: mechanisms underlying the population-level response of a specialist avian predator (2015)
- Ecography
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)