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 ConservationLandscape EcologyEnvironmental Pollution
- Pine mires as key early-season habitat selection sites for Willow Tits in managed boreal forests (2026)
- Forest Ecology and Management
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- Forest Ecology and Management
- Waterfowl Move Less in Heterogeneous and Human‐Populated Landscapes, With Implications for Spread of Avian Influenza Viruses (2026)
- Ecology LettersMovement ecology
- (2025)
- Journal of Applied Ecology
- Cormorant predation in fyke net fishing: The direct effects of a protected bird on coastal commercial fishing (2025)
- Fisheries Research
- Crested Tits prefer pine forest but not mature forest: insights from an early spring passive acoustic survey (2025)
- Ornis FennicaEcology and Evolution
- Great cormorants and grey herons depredating at finfish aquaculture: Factors affecting the human–wildlife conflict (2025)
- AMBIO: A Journal of the Human EnvironmentEuropean Journal of Wildlife Research
- Habitat imprinting in breeding territory selection of a long‐lived bird of prey (2025)
- Journal of Animal EcologyGlobal Ecology and Conservation
- Living with the enemy: the return of an apex predator is associated with habitat shifts in a common but rapidly declining prey population (2025)
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- European Journal of Wildlife ResearchForest Ecology and Management
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- 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)
- 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)
- Diet of the raccoon dog, an invasive mesopredator, during the breeding season of declining waterbird populations (2024)
- Fecal calcium levels of bird nestlings as a potential indicator of species-specific metal sensitivity (2024)
- Forest habitat loss and human land use alter predation of artificial ground nests (2024)
- 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)
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