Toni
Laaksonen
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Animal Ecology
Areas of expertise
animal behaviour
applied ecology
conservation biology
life history evolution
population ecology
predator-prey interactions
Biography
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.
Research
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.
Publications
Successful invasion: camera trap distance sampling reveals higher density for invasive raccoon dog compared to native mesopredators (2024)
Biological Invasions
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Diet of the raccoon dog, an invasive mesopredator, during the breeding season of declining waterbird populations (2024)
Global Ecology and Conservation
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Optimised PCR assays for detecting elusive waterfowl from environmental DNA (2024)
Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
The habitat preferences of invasive raccoon dog imply elevated risks for wetland-associated prey species (2024)
Oecologia
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Large-scale genotypic identification reveals density-dependent natal dispersal patterns in an elusive bird of prey (2024)
Movement ecology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Winter-ground microhabitat use by differently coloured phenotypes affects return rate in a long-distance migratory bird (2024)
Oecologia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Reduced survival in a soaring bird breeding in wind turbine proximity along the northern Baltic Sea coast (2024)
Biological Conservation
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Fecal calcium levels of bird nestlings as a potential indicator of species-specific metal sensitivity (2024)
Environmental Pollution
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Broad geographic variation in age- and sex-dependent origin of harvested eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) revealed by stable-hydrogen (δ2H) isotope analyses of feathers (2024)
European Journal of Wildlife Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Anthropogenic bottom-up and top-down impacts on boreal breeding waterbirds (2024)
Ecology and Evolution
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))