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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- Non-invasive genetic monitoring involving citizen science enables reconstruction of current pack dynamics in a re-establishing wolf population (2017)
- BMC Ecology
- Nosy neighbours: large broods attract more visitors. A field experiment in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca (2017)
- Oecologia
- Testosterone levels in relation to size and UV reflectance of achromatic plumage traits of female pied flycatchers (2017)
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Barrier crossing in small avian migrants: individual tracking reveals prolonged nocturnal flights into the day as a common migratory strategy (2016)
- Scientific Reports
- Carry-over effects of conditions at the wintering grounds on breeding plumage signals in a migratory bird: roles of phenotypic plasticity and selection (2016)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole-nesting birds (2016)
- Ecology and Evolution
- Intraguild predation and competition impacts on a subordinate predator (2016)
- Oecologia
- Landscape-scale gradients and temporal changes in the prey species of the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) (2016)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
- Light-level geolocators reveal migratory connectivity in European populations of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca (2016)
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Maternal transfer of androgens in eggs is affected by food supplementation but not by predation risk (2016)
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Post-fledging movements of white-tailed eagles: Conservation implications for wind-energy development (2016)
- AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
- Predator encounters have spatially extensive impacts on parental behaviour in a breeding bird community (2016)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Proximity to wind-power plants reduces the breeding success of the white-tailed eagle (2016)
- Animal Conservation
- Sex-dependent responses to increased parental effort in the pied flycatcher (2016)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Suomen merikotkat 2013–2015 (2016)
- Linnut-vuosikirja
- White-tailed eagle is an indicator for the health of the Baltic Sea (2016)
- Baltic Rim Economies
- An experimental test of whether pied flycatchers choose the best territory for rearing the young (2015)
- Current Zoology
- Do insectivorous birds use volatile organic compounds from plants as olfactory foraging cues? Three experimental tests (2015)
- Ethology
- Do Pied Flycatchers Use Personal or Social Information for Replacement Clutch Decisions? A Field Experiment (2015)
- Ethology
- Espanjassa kuultua (2015)
- Linnut
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