Toni Laaksonen
Professor of Animal Ecology
animal behaviour; applied ecology; conservation biology; life history evolution; population ecology; predator-prey interactions
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.
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.
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- Designing for diversity: Wetland ageing and habitat features at multiple scales influence the use of constructed wetlands by breeding waterfowl (2026)
- Biological Conservation
- Waterfowl Move Less in Heterogeneous and Human‐Populated Landscapes, With Implications for Spread of Avian Influenza Viruses (2026)
- Ecology LettersOrnis Fennica
- Arctic migrating barnacle geese utilize accommodation fields in a new agricultural staging area (2025)
- Journal of Applied EcologyAMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
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- Fisheries Research
- Crested Tits prefer pine forest but not mature forest: insights from an early spring passive acoustic survey (2025)
- Great cormorants and grey herons depredating at finfish aquaculture: Factors affecting the human–wildlife conflict (2025)
- Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long‐lived bird of prey (2025)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
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- Landscape Ecology
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- European Journal of Wildlife Research
- Supplementary winter feeding is associated with higher recruitment rates in a population of a scavenging bird of prey (2025)
- Oecologia
- Winter survival of a small predator is determined by the amount of food in hoards (2025)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Anthropogenic bottom-up and top-down impacts on boreal breeding waterbirds (2024)
- Ecology and Evolution
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- European Journal of Wildlife Research
- Diet of the raccoon dog, an invasive mesopredator, during the breeding season of declining waterbird populations (2024)
- Global Ecology and Conservation
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- Environmental PollutionMovement ecology
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- Forest Ecology and ManagementLinnut
- 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
- Large-scale genotypic identification reveals density-dependent natal dispersal patterns in an elusive bird of prey (2024)
- Merihanhillamme on kaksi eri muuttoreittiä (2024)
- Merimetson ja harmaahaikaran suorat kalatalousvahingot: määrän ja laadun arviointi Suomen merialueilla (2024) Westerbom, Mats; Airaksinen, Susanna; Arkko, Valtteri; Byholm, Patrik; Ekblad, Camilla; Hopkins, Juhani; Jormalainen, Veijo; Kankainen, Markus; Laaksonen, Toni; Lehmonen, Roope; Lehmuskallio, Juhani; Lindberg, Pia; Lindén, Andreas; Lindqvist, Meri; Moilanen, Noora; Niukko, Jari; Olin, Mikko; Ovaskainen, Antti; Piha, Markus; Pohjankukka, Jonne; Seimola, Tuomas; Svels, Kristina; Tiitinen, Matilda
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