Jon Brommer
Head of Department
Department of Biology jon.brommer@utu.fi +358 29 450 2622 +358 50 534 3360 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku : 234 |
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).
- Extent of recent polewards range margin shifts in Finnish birds depends on their body mass and feeding ecology (2008)
- Ornis Fennica
- Heritability, plasticity and canalization of Ural owl egg size in a cyclic environment (2008)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Maternal effects on offspring Igs and egg size in relation to natural and experimentally improved food supply (2008)
- Functional Ecology
- Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum (2008)
- Ecology Letters
- Tawny owl reproduction and offspring sex ratios under variable food conditions (2008)
- Journal für Ornithologie
- Accounting for possible detectable distances in a comparison of dispersal: Apollo dispersal in different habitats (2007)
- Ecological Modelling
- A possible link between parasite defence and residual reproduction (2007)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Exploring the genetics of aging in a wild passerine bird (2007)
- American Naturalist
- Is extrapair mating random? On the probability distribution of extrapair young in avian broods (2007)
- Behavioral Ecology
- Nestling immune response to phytohaemagglutinin is not heritable in collared flycatchers (2007)
- Biology Letters
- The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations (2007)
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- The Intersexual Genetic Correlation for Lifetime Fitness in the Wild and Its Implications for Sexual Selection (2007)
- PLoS ONE
- Additive and environmental components of fitness in wild bird populations (2006)
- Journal für Ornithologie
- Consequences of the spatial configuration of resources for the distribution and dynamics of the endangered Parnassius apollo butterfly (2006)
- Biological Conservation
- Evolutionary genetics - Evolution of mate choice in the wild - Reply (2006) Qvarnstrom A, Brommer JE, Gustafsson L
- Testing the genetics underlying the co-evolution of mate choice and ornament in the wild (2006)
- Nature
- Generation time and temporal scaling of bird population dynamics (2005)
- Nature
- Natural selection and genetic variation for reproductive reaction norms in a wild bird population (2005)
- Evolution
- The colour of fitness: plumage coloration and lifetime reproductive success in the tawny owl (2005)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- The decline and current distribution of Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus) in Finland; the role of Cd (2005)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici



