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).
- Time to extinction of bird populations (2005)
- Ecology
- Immunocompetence and its costs during development: an experimental study in blue tit nestlings (2004)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Life-history variation predicts the effects of demographic stochasticity on avian population dynamics (2004)
- American Naturalist
- Single-generation estimates of individual fitness as proxies for long-term genetic contribution (2004)
- American Naturalist
- Supplementary fed Ural owls increase their reproductive output with a one year time lag (2004)
- Oecologia
- The range margins of northern birds shift polewards (2004)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici
- Influence of habitat quality and patch size on occupancy and persistence in two populations of the Apollo butterfly (Parnassius apollo) (2003)
- Journal of Insect Conservation
- Life-history consequences of partial-moult asymmetry (2003)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Life-history trade-off in two predator species sharing the same prey: a study on cassava-inhabiting mites (2003)
- Oikos
- Natural selection on individual clutch size-laying date trends in the Ural owl (2003)
- Evolutionary Ecology Research
- Ural owl sex allocation and parental investment under poor food conditions (2003)
- Oecologia
- Cyclic variation in seasonal recruitment and the evolution of the seasonal decline in Ural owl clutch size (2002)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Reproduction and survival in a variable environment: Ural owls (Strix uralensis) and the three-year vole cycle (2002)
- Auk
- Reproductive timing and individual fitness (2002)
- Ecology Letters
- Scale and seasonal sex-ratio trends in northern goshawk Accipiter gentilis broods (2002)
- Journal of Avian Biology
- Reproductive effort and reproductive values in periodic environments (2000)
- American Naturalist
- The evolution of fitness in life-history theory (2000)
- Biological Reviews
- Movement of the Apollo butterfly Parnassius apollo related to host plant and nectar plant patches (1999)
- Ecological Entomology
- The effect of age at first breeding on Ural owl lifetime reproductive success and fitness under cyclic food conditions (1998)
- Journal of Animal Ecology



