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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- Suomen haapanasaalis on peräisin laajalta alueelta (2024)
- Metsästäjä
- The habitat preferences of invasive raccoon dog imply elevated risks for wetland-associated prey species (2024)
- Oecologia
- Translocation experiment of taiga bean geese Anser fabalis provides evidence for oblique social learning of moult migration (2024)
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Winter-ground microhabitat use by differently coloured phenotypes affects return rate in a long-distance migratory bird (2024)
- Oecologia
- 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
- 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.
- Cavity-breeding birds create specific microhabitats for diverse arthropod communities in boreal forests (2023)
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Early-life diet specificity is associated with long-lasting differences in apparent survival in a generalist predator (2023)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Occupancy rates of excavated cavities and nest boxes in managed boreal forest in relation to forest structure (2023)
- Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
- Passive acoustic survey reveals the abundance of a low-density predator and its dependency on mature forests (2023)
- Landscape Ecology
- When and where to count? Implications of migratory connectivity and nonbreeding distribution to population censuses in a migratory bird population (2023)
- Population Ecology
- 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
- Arktiset valkoposkihanhet ja maatalousvahingot – löytyykö ratkaisu hanhipelloista? (2022)
- Linnut-vuosikirja
- Editorial: Determinants and Consequences of Perceived Predation Risk: From Individual Behavior to Transgenerational Effects (2022)
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
- 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
- ”Ihminen valloittaa, villieläimet vikisevät” – sadat lajit ovat sukupuuton partaalla ja tilanne ei ole parantumassa (2022)
- MustRead
- Invasive species control with apex predators: increasing presence of wolves is associated with reduced occurrence of the alien raccoon dog (2022)
- Biological Invasions
- Lakla-metsähanhi (2022) Veenkoirasta vaakalintuun – Kalevalan eläimiä Laaksonen Toni
- Maternally transferred thyroid hormones and life-history variation in birds (2022)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- More wood but less biodiversity in forests in Finland: a historical evaluation (2022)
- Memoranda Societatis Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica
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