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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- Living with the enemy: the return of an apex predator is associated with habitat shifts in a common but rapidly declining prey population (2025)
- Landscape Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mesopredator control for waterfowl conservation: hunting reduces invasive raccoon dog abundance and predation on artificial nests (2025)
- European Journal of Wildlife Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Supplementary winter feeding is associated with higher recruitment rates in a population of a scavenging bird of prey (2025)
- Oecologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Winter survival of a small predator is determined by the amount of food in hoards (2025)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Anthropogenic bottom-up and top-down impacts on boreal breeding waterbirds (2024)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Broad geographic variation in age- and sex-dependent origin of harvested eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) revealed by stable-hydrogen (δ2H) isotope analyses of feathers (2024)
- European Journal of Wildlife Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Diet of the raccoon dog, an invasive mesopredator, during the breeding season of declining waterbird populations (2024)
- Global Ecology and Conservation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fecal calcium levels of bird nestlings as a potential indicator of species-specific metal sensitivity (2024)
- Environmental Pollution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Forest habitat loss and human land use alter predation of artificial ground nests (2024)
- Forest Ecology and Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hanhipellot ihmisten ja hanhien välisen ristiriidan lievittäjänä (2024) Forsman, Jukka; Jokinen, Mikko; Heikkinen, Juha; Hiedanpää, Juha; Juutinen, Artti; Laaksonen, Toni; Laurila, Marika; Liu, Xing; Piha, Markus; Pellikka, Jani; Salo, Matti; Seimola, Tuomas; Seltmann, Martin; Store, Ron; Ylitalo, Anna-Kaisa
(D4 Published development or research report or study )
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