The Spatial Ecology programme was supported by the Academy of Finland from 1999 to 2005

The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, has established Spatial Ecology Research Programme. The program is funded by the Academy of Finland . The programme brings together different approaches to spatial ecology. We have four research groups focusing on different approaches to spatial ecology:

• metapopulation ecology (Head Professor Ilkka Hanski )
• landscape ecology (Head Professor Jari Niemelä )
• large-scale spatial dynamics (Head Professor Esa Ranta )
• levels of selection in spatially structured populations (Head Professor Lotta Sundström )
• spatially-extended evolutionary genetics (Head Professor Juha Merilä )

Activities

Symposium: Global Biodiversity and its Monitoring: focus on insects, Division of Population Biology, 20.4.1998

Workshop: Evolution of Dispersal, Tvärminne Zoological Station, Helsinki, 15 - 19.10.1998

Conference: Habitat Loss: Ecological, Evolutionary and Genetic Consequences, Hanasaari, Helsinki, 7 - 12.9.1999

Workshop: Urban Spatial Ecology, Helsinki, 3.11.2000

Workshop: Population Extinction: Processes, Patterns and Explanations, Tvärminne Zoological Station, Helsinki, 5 - 7.11.2000

Workshop: Genetic Analysis of Populations: the Importance of Population Dynamics and Demography, Tvärminne Zoological Station, 17 - 19.11.2001

Conference: Extinction Thresholds - Insights from Ecology, Genetics, Epidemiology and Behaviour, Unitas Conference Center, 2 - 5.9.2002

Symposium: Metapopulation Biology - Achievements and Challenges, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Helsinki, 14 - 15.2.2003

Fourth Nessling Symposium: Environmental Problems and Policies in Growing Urban Areas: a multidisciplinary approach, Hanasaari Cultural Centre, Espoo, 8 - 9.12. 2003

Workshop: Spatial Ecology of Insect-Plant Interactions, Tvärminne Zoological Station, 5 - 9.11.2004

Workshop: Ecological Response to Climate Change: scales of changes, scales of observation, Viiki Campus, 3 - 4.11.2005

Visitors' programme

Publications
 

Other events of potential interest:

ESF Workshop on Metapopulation Dynamics , Tvärminne Zoological Station, 15 - 18 April, 1999

Third Workshop on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests , Kuhmo, Finland, July 31 - August 4, 2000

Bob O'Hara and Mark Belisle's Applied Statistics for Ecologists course, Helsinki, Finland, November - December, 2001

International Workshop on Protecting Nature on Private Land - From Conflicts to Agreements , Lahti, Finland, 12 - 15 June, 2002

The Eighth Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology , Lohja, Finland, 28 Aug - 1 Sept, 2002

Statistics Course: Animal and generalised linear mixed models - a practical approach , Helsinki, Finland, 9-11 September, 2002 (Teachers: Loeske Kruuk (ICAP, Edinburgh, UK), David Coltman (Sheffield, UK), Bob O'Hara (Helsinki) and Juha Merilä (Helsinki, Finland)

Course: The Scope and Limits of Theoretical Biology, Helsinki, Finland, 2 November - 14 December, 2005 (Teachers: Heikki Helanterä and Tuomas Pernu)

Contact address

All researchers at the Spatial Ecology program can be reached at the address:
 

Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences	Tel +358 (0)9 1911 (exchange)
University of Helsinki	Fax +358 (0)9 191 57694
PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1)
FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

General inquiries should be directed to Johan Kotze (Tel +358 (0)9 191 57707, e-mail: johan.kotze@helsinki.fi )

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