Mirkka Lahdenperä
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
mirkka.lahdenpera@utu.fi +358 29 450 2079 +358 50 541 7246 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku |
evolutionary health, health behaviour, death causes, social living environment, physical living environment, milk composition, evolutionary ecology, life history, co-operation, conflict, kin effects, evolution of longevity, post-reproductive lifespan
My research focus on evolutionary perspectives of human health, life-history and social networks. I'm also interested in similar questions in other long-lived animals.
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- Sex-specific links between the social landscape and faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in semi-captive Asian elephants (2022)
- General and Comparative Endocrinology
- Anthropogenic interferences lead to gut microbiome dysbiosis in Asian elephants and may alter adaptation processes to surrounding environments (2021)
- Scientific Reports
- Handler familiarity helps to improve working performance during novel situations in semi-captive Asian elephants (2021)
- Scientific Reports
- Influence of handler relationships and experience on health parameters, glucocorticoid responses and behaviour of semi-captive Asian elephants (2021)
- Conservation Physiology
- Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-industrial human society (2021)
- Scientific Reports
- The elephant in the family: Costs and benefits of elder siblings on younger offspring life-history trajectory in a matrilineal mammal (2021)
- Journal of Animal Ecology
- Will granny save me? Birth status, survival, and the role of grandmothers in historical Finland (2021)
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Evaluating the Reliability of Non-Specialist Observers in the Behavioural Assessment of Semi-Captive Asian Elephant Welfare (2020)
- Animals
- Family dynamics and age-related patterns in marriage probability (2020)
- Evolution and Human Behavior
- Milk Composition of Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in a Natural Environment in Myanmar during Late Lactation (2020)
- Animals
- Taming age mortality in semi-captive Asian elephants (2020)
- Scientific Reports
- Asian elephants exhibit post-reproductive lifespans (2019)
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
- Capture from the wild has long-term costs on reproductive success in Asian elephants (2019)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Demographic and evolutionary trends in ovarian function and aging (2019)
- Human Reproduction Update
- Evolutionary significance of maternal kinship in a long-lived mammal (2019)
- Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
- Investigating changes within the handling system of the largest semi-captive population of Asian elephants (2019)
- PLoS ONE
- Limits to Fitness Benefits of Prolonged Post-reproductive Lifespan in Women (2019)
- Current Biology
- Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants (2019)
- Scientific Reports
- A Simple, Practical Method for Measurement of Fat in Milk, Applied to Mid- to Late-Lactating Working Elephants in Myanmar (2018)
- Novel Techniques in Nutrition and Food Science
- Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants (2018)
- Nature Communications
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