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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- Geographic patterns of genetic differentiation and plumage colour variation are different in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) (2009) Lehtonen PK, Laaksonen T, Artemyev AV, Belskii E, Both C, Bures S, Bushuev AV, Krams I, Moreno J, Magi M, Nord A, Potti J, Ravussin PA, Sirkia PM, Saetre GP, Primmer CR
- Great tits lay increasingly smaller clutches than selected for: a study of climate- and density-related changes in reproductive traits (2009)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Latitudinal Gradient in 2D:4D (2009) Helle S, Laaksonen T
- Female field voles with high testosterone and glucose levels produce male-biased litters (2008)
- Animal Behaviour
- From Plants to Birds: Higher Avian Predation Rates in Trees Responding to Insect Herbivory (2008)
- PLoS ONE
- Low light reflectance may explain the attraction of birds to defoliated trees (2008)
- Behavioral Ecology
- The effects of sex, age and breeding success on breeding dispersal of pied flycatchers along a pollution gradient (2008)
- Oecologia
- Climate change can alter competitive relationships between resident and migratory birds (2007)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Variation in the diet composition of a generalist predator, the red fox, in relation to season and density of main prey (2007)
- Acta Oecologica
- Climate change, migratory connectivity and changes in laying date and clutch size of the pied flycatcher (2006)
- Oikos
- Climatic responses in spring migration of boreal and arctic birds in relation to wintering area and taxonomy (2006)
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Competition over nest-holes between a sedentary and a migratory bird under climatic fluctuation (2006)
- Journal für Ornithologie
- Environmental pollution has sex-dependent effects on local survival (2006)
- Biology Letters
- Variation in climate warming along the migration route uncouples arrival and breeding dates (2004)
- Global Change Biology
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