Jon Brommer
Head of Department
Department of Biology jon.brommer@utu.fi +358 29 450 2622 +358 50 534 3360 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 234 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2435-2612 |
Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Zoology; Biodiversity & Conservation; Social Ecological System
2019 onwards. Full professor (Dept of Biology) - University of Turku, FI
2012-2019 Tenure-track professor (Dept of Biology) - University of Turku, FI
2001-2012 I secured funding from the Research Council of Finland for various researcher positions allowing me to strengthen my expertise as a researcher. I have been acting as a lecturer for some times in between these research-oriented positions
2001. PhD (Ecology and Evolution) - University of Helsinki, FI
1997. MSc (Ecology and Evolution) - University of Amsterdam, NL
In the Brommer Lab we study a variety of ecological and environmental issues; in some projects focus is on specific taxa, in others a macroecological approach is used, often including a societal aspect.
Data gathering includes traditional field methods, but also acoustic monitoring and wildlife cameras. Macroecological project often rely on publicly available data. We carry out electronic surveys when study social aspects.
I teach general aspect of professional life (Professional Development), an introductory course for working in R (Getting to work in R) and central concepts in evolutionary biology (Advanced Evolutionary Biology).
- Exploring patterns of variation in clutch size-density reaction norms in a wild passerine bird (2013)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - On between-individual and residual (co)variances in the study of animal personality: are you willing to take the "individual gambit"? (2013)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Phenotypic plasticity of labile traits in the wild (2013)
- Current Zoology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Quantitative genetic analysis of responses to larval food limitation in a polyphenic butterfly indicates environment- and trait-specific effects (2013)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Range margin shifts of birds revisited - the role of spatiotemporally varying survey effort (2013)
- Global Change Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Valkohäntäpeuran koon ja sarvien kehitys – ainutlaatuinen tutkimus lounaisella Uudellamaalla (2013)
- Metsästäjä
(E1 Popularised article) - Variation in plasticity of personality traits implies that the ranking of personality measures changes between environmental contexts: calculating the cross-environmental correlation (2013)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A simple cage test captures intrinsic differences in aspects of personality across individuals in a passerine bird (2012)
- Animal Behaviour
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Exploring the genetics of nestling personality traits in a wild passerine bird: testing the phenotypic gambit (2012)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Heterozygosity in an Isolated Population of a Large Mammal Founded by Four Individuals Is Predicted by an Individual-Based Genetic Model (2012)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GENOTYPE AND SEXUAL CONFLICT ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCE TRANSGENERATIONAL FITNESS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER (2012)
- Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Levels of heavy metals in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) from urban and rural habitats of southern Finland (2012)
- Ornis Fennica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Morphometric differentiation across House Sparrow Passer domesticus populations in Finland in comparison with the neutral expectation for divergence (2012)
- Ibis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Quantitative genetics of behavioural reaction norms: genetic correlations between personality and behavioural plasticity vary across stickleback populations (2012)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Selection on plasticity of seasonal life-history traits using random regression mixed model analysis (2012)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Suomen valkohäntäpeurakanta - geneettisesti hauras? (2012)
- Metsästäjä
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Suuri valkohäntäpeura-projekti Länsi-Uudellamaalla (2012)
- Metsästäjä
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - The breeding ranges of Central European and Arctic bird species move poleward. (2012)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Adjusting the timing of hatching to changing environmental conditions has fitness costs in blue tits (2011)
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Blood parasites mediate morph-specific maintenance costs in a colour polymorphic wild bird (2011)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



