Toni Laaksonen
Professor of Animal Ecology
Areas of expertise
animal behaviour; applied ecology; conservation biology; life history evolution; population ecology; predator-prey interactions
animal behaviour; applied ecology; conservation biology; life history evolution; population ecology; predator-prey interactions
Biography
I am a professor of animal ecology at the Department of Biology, University of Turku. Before this position I was working as a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) 2018-2019, as a university lecturer and Academy research fellow at the University of Turku (2011-2017) and as a senior curator and Academy research fellow at Finnish Museums of Natural History, University of Helsinki (2009-2010). I gained both my MSc (2000) and PhD (2003) in Turku and worked as a post doc in Turku and in the Netherlands institute of Ecology (2005) before the Academy fellowships.
I am a professor of animal ecology at the Department of Biology, University of Turku. Before this position I was working as a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) 2018-2019, as a university lecturer and Academy research fellow at the University of Turku (2011-2017) and as a senior curator and Academy research fellow at Finnish Museums of Natural History, University of Helsinki (2009-2010). I gained both my MSc (2000) and PhD (2003) in Turku and worked as a post doc in Turku and in the Netherlands institute of Ecology (2005) before the Academy fellowships.
Research
My research interests range from animal behaviour and population ecology to multitrophic ecological interactions and evaluation of conservation strategies. My current main study systems are the hole-breeding animal community, waterfowl and birds of prey. See my publications in GoogleScholar profile or Publons ResearcherID profile (link above) because not all are listed below in the University of Turku database.
My research interests range from animal behaviour and population ecology to multitrophic ecological interactions and evaluation of conservation strategies. My current main study systems are the hole-breeding animal community, waterfowl and birds of prey. See my publications in GoogleScholar profile or Publons ResearcherID profile (link above) because not all are listed below in the University of Turku database.
Publications 
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- A gradual migratory divide determines not only the direction of migration but also migration strategy of a social migrant bird (2023)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Amidst the flyway: Co-designing accommodation fields for the barnacle goose in South-Eastern Finland (2023) Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives Hiedanpää Juha, Salo Matti, Jokinen Mikko, Pellikka Jani, Store Ron, Laaksonen Toni, Pirinen Mika, Heim Wieland, Piironen Antti, Mikander Nina, Lohilahti Hanne, Forsman Jukka T.
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Cavity-breeding birds create specific microhabitats for diverse arthropod communities in boreal forests (2023)
- Biodiversity and Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Early-life diet specificity is associated with long-lasting differences in apparent survival in a generalist predator (2023)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Occupancy rates of excavated cavities and nest boxes in managed boreal forest in relation to forest structure (2023)
- Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Passive acoustic survey reveals the abundance of a low-density predator and its dependency on mature forests (2023)
- Landscape Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - When and where to count? Implications of migratory connectivity and nonbreeding distribution to population censuses in a migratory bird population (2023)
- Population Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A rapid increase of large-sized waterfowl does not explain the population declines of small-sized waterbird at their breeding sites (2022)
- Global Ecology and Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Arktiset valkoposkihanhet ja maatalousvahingot – löytyykö ratkaisu hanhipelloista? (2022)
- Linnut-vuosikirja
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Editorial: Determinants and Consequences of Perceived Predation Risk: From Individual Behavior to Transgenerational Effects (2022)
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Effects of multiple targeted repelling measures on the behaviour of individually tracked birds in an area of increasing human-wildlife conflict (2022)
- Journal of Applied Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - ”Ihminen valloittaa, villieläimet vikisevät” – sadat lajit ovat sukupuuton partaalla ja tilanne ei ole parantumassa (2022)
- MustRead
(E1 Popularised article) - Invasive species control with apex predators: increasing presence of wolves is associated with reduced occurrence of the alien raccoon dog (2022)
- Biological Invasions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lakla-metsähanhi (2022) Veenkoirasta vaakalintuun – Kalevalan eläimiä Laaksonen Toni
(E2 Popularised book ) - Maternally transferred thyroid hormones and life-history variation in birds (2022)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - More wood but less biodiversity in forests in Finland: a historical evaluation (2022)
- Memoranda Societatis Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Population differences in the length and early-life dynamics of telomeres among European pied flycatchers (2022)
- Molecular Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predicting spatio-temporal distributions of migratory populations using Gaussian process modelling (2022)
- Journal of Applied Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Protecting prey by deceiving predators: A field experiment testing chemical camouflage and conditioned food aversion (2022)
- Biological Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Species-specific song responses emerge as a by-product of tuning to the local dialect (2022)
- Current Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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