Group Members

E-mails can be sent to firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi

• Prof. Esa Ranta Backgammon and cooking mushrooms.
• Prof. Veijo Kaitala Mysterious sounds and other percussion.
• Dos. Heikki Hirvonen Predator-prey interactions, Behaviour and conservation, Ecology of individual growth, Mystery Horn.

Researchers

• Dr. Sami Aikio Ecology of plant life-histories, competition, ecological risks of gene manipulated organisms (GMO's).
• Dr. Katja Enberg MSc.
• Dr. Mike Fowler Spatial processes, Allee effects, Community interactions, Small Worlds, Long-term climate change
• Dr. Marianne Fred
• Hanna Kuukka MSc.
• Mika Laakkonen MSc.
• Dos. Jouni Laakso Hair dyes and nothing to do at the weekend.
• Tiina Lautula
• Andreas Lindén MSc.
• Dr. Anne Luoma
• Dr. Nina Peuhkuri
• Lasse Ruokolainen MSc. Developing models of community persistence using Niche theory.
• Dr. Annamari Salonen Ecological and evolutionary perspective to behavioural traits in European grayling.
• Dr. Katriina Tiira Behaviour, genetic variation and physiology in salmonids.
• Kata Valosaari MSc.
• Dr. Sampsa Vilhunen Innate and learned predator avoidance in salmonids, life skills training of hatchery fish.

Teaching

• Introduction to Ecological modelling course. Link to a page containing presentations & lectures given in this course.

The course gives an introduction to development and analysis of population models with computer simulations. Classical aspects of population ecology and management will be discussed. The topics include management aspects of game, fisheries and conservation biology. The course is demanding, involving lots of supervised exercises in a computer class. The most demanding part of the workshop is that each student will choose her/his own problem in, e.g., population management. The problem - for most solved by self-supervised learning - is solvable by the means and tools taught at the beginning of the workshop. A proper solution demands development and use of simulation models. The workshop ends with student-written reports of the results of their efforts. These, and other aspects of the workshop, will be discussed with the teachers at a closing seminar. Don't be afraid!.

Links

• Spatial Ecology Home Page. The Spatial Ecology Research Programme, funded by the Academy of Finland, aims to focus on the importance of spatial processes in ecology through the integration of a variety of different techniques.
• The Nordic Centre of Excellence. IKP is one of three nodes working on the ECOCLIM project - a collaborative research programme between theoretical ecologists in the Universities of Helsinki, Lund and Oslo.