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LUOVA dissertations

Wild cat

Since the founding of the doctoral programme in 1995 more than 110 students have graduated from LUOVA. Below you can find all LUOVA dissertations and the date of defense.

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2012

121.

Heini Kujala, 1 June 2012
Climate change, species range shifts and uncertainty – a new era of conservation planning
E-thesis

120.

Christoph Meier, 25 May 2012
The consequences of spatial environmental variability on dispersal and on the spatial distribution of species
E-thesis

119.

Anton Chernenko, 25 May 2012
Recognition and social behaviour in Formica ants
E-thesis

118.

Ulla Tuomainen, 20 January 2012
Behavioural responses to anthropogenic disturbances
E-thesis

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2011

117.

Abigél Gonda, 25 November 2011
Intraspecific variation in brain size and architecture: population divergence and phenotypic plasticity
E-thesis

116.

Mari Bieri, 17 June 2011
The impact of FSC certification on timber tree regeneration and floristic composition in Honduran community forests
E-thesis

115.

Suvi Nikula, 5 May 2011
European aspen and hybrid aspen under changing environment : Leaf traits, growth and litter decomposition
E-thesis

114.

Jostein Starrfelt, 29 April 2011
Models of dispersal and diversification
E-thesis

113.

Riikka Kaartinen, 11 March 2011
Spatial ecology of food webs: herbivore-parasitoid communities on the pedunculate oak E-thesis

112.

Jaana Kekkonen, 28 January 2011
Evolutionary and conservation biology of the Finnish house sparrow
E-thesis

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2010

111.

Saija Sirkiä, 10 December 2010
Effects of largescale human land use on Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) populations in Finland
E-thesis

110.

Leon Vlieger, 26 November 2010
The effects of eutrophication on alternative reproductive tactics in threespine sticklebacks
E-thesis

109.

Jussi Alho, 5 June 2010
The emerging phenotype: Ecological genetics of color, form and sex in the common frog
E-thesis

108.

Ace North, 4 June 2010
Effects of environmental variation on ecological and evolutionary dynamics
E-thesis

107.

Ayco Tack, 28 May 2010
Spatial ecology of an oak-associated herbivore community : A metacommunity of herbivores
E-thesis

106.

Emma Vitikainen, 23 April 2010
Causes and consequences of inbreeding in the ant Formica exsecta
E-thesis

105.

Kati Vierikko, 16 April 2010
Sustainable forest management – ecologically sound and socially accepted
E-thesis

104.

Johan Ekroos, 9 April 2010
Effects of management and landscape structure on biodiversity in boreal agricultural farmland
E-thesis

103.

Varpu Mitikka, 26 March 2010
The range expansion of the European map butterfly in Finland
E-thesis

102.

Pekka Kontiainen, 19 March 2010
Living on voles – plastic life of the Ural owl
E-thesis

101.

Tuomas Leinonen, 5 February 2010
Evolutionary genetics in the wild - from populations to individuals
E-thesis

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2009

100.

Johanna Rainio, 19 December 2009
Carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) as indicators of environmental change in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
E-thesis

99.

Jenni Hottola, 18 December 2009
Communities of wood-inhabiting fungi: Ecological requirements and responses to forest management and fragmentation
E-thesis

98.

Kristjan Niitepõld, 4 December 2009
Flight metabolic rate in the Glanville fritillary butterfly
E-thesis

97.

Heidi Viljanen, 27 November 2009
Dung beetle communities in Madagascar
E-thesis

96.

Helena Wirta, 20 November 2009
Dung beetle radiations in Madagascar
E-thesis

95.

Outi Ala-Honkola, 30 October 2009
Pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa
E-thesis

94.

Lasse Ruokolainen, 23 October 2009
Ecological communities in variable environments : dynamics and diversity under coloured environmental stochasticity
E-thesis

93.

Gunther Jansen, 26 June 2009
Phylogenetics of Myrmica ants and their social parasites
E-thesis

92.

Aleksi Lehikoinen, 8 May 2009
Climate forcing on avian life history
E-thesis

91.

Katja Holmala, 24 April 2009
The community of medium-sized carnivores: interactions between species, habitats and rabies
E-thesis

90.

Chaozhi Zheng, 24 April 2009
Modeling ecological and evolutionary processes in spatially structured populations
E-thesis

89.

Leena Hamberg, 17 April 2009
The effects of habitat edges and trampling intensity on vegetation in urban forests
E-thesis

88.

Anni Arponen, 4 April 2009
Species-based and community-level approaches to conservation prioritization
E-thesis

87.

Ville-Petri Friman, 14 March 2009
The role of productivity in the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of predator-prey interaction
E-thesis

86.

Jan Heuschele, 27 February 2009
The influence of eutrophication on sexual selection in sticklebacks
E-thesis

85.

Sanna Olsson, 27 February 2009
Evolution of the Neckeraceae (Bryopsida)
E-thesis

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2008

84.

Varpu Vahtera, 30 May 2008
Phylogenetics, taxon delimitation and phylogenetic diversity
E-thesis

83.

Kata-Riina Valosaari, 7 March 2008
Ecological consequences of genetic modifications - an invasion analysis approach
E-thesis

82.

Minna Malmivaara-Lämsä, 1 February 2008
Effects of recreational use and fragmentation on the understorey vegetation and soil microbial communities of urban forests in southern Finland
E-thesis

81.

Raisa Nikula, 18 January 2008
Phylogeography and hybrid swarms: history of brackish water bivalve diversity in North European marginal seas
E-thesis

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2007

80.

Natalia Pitala, 30 November 2007
Causes and consequences of variation in nestling immune function
E-thesis

79.

Juha Pöyry, 23 November 2007
Management of semi-natural grasslands for butterfly and moth communities
E-thesis

78.

Jukka Rintala, 2 November 2007
Dynamics of Finnish starlings in 1951-2005: from monitoring to population modelling
E-thesis

77.

Sofia Gripenberg, 26 October 2007
Spatial ecology of a specialist insect herbivore - the leaf-mining moth Tischeria ekebladella on the pedunculate oak Quercus robur
E-thesis

76.

Marjo Saastamoinen, 12 October 2007
Dispersal and related life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly
E-thesis

75.

Mika Laakkonen, 14 September 2007
Behavioural and physiological responses to predators of captive-bred Arctic charr: significance of genetics, learning and ontogeny
E-thesis

74.

Astrid van Teeffelen, 16 June 2007
Where and how to conserve: Extending the scope of spatial reserve network design
E-thesis

73.

Markus Piha, 15 June 2007
Spatial and temporal determinants of Finnish farmland bird populations
E-thesis

72.

Ville Vepsäläinen, 15 June 2007
Farmland birds and habitat heterogeneity in intensively cultivated boreal agricultural landscapes
E-thesis

71.

Patrik Karell, 1 June 2007
Short- and long-term consequences of food resources on Ural owl Strix uralensis reproduction
E-thesis

70.

Katja Matveinen-Huju, 11 May 2007
Short-term effects of variable retention on epigaeic spiders and carabid beetles in Finland
E-thesis

69.

Katja Bargum, 30 March 2007
Kin selection, social polymorphism and reproductive allocation in ants
E-thesis

68.

Irina Herzon, 24 February 2007
Ode to a Skylark: Agricultural intensification and farmland birds in the Baltic region
E-thesis

67.

Daniel Rankin, 26 January 2007
The population consequences of sex and conflict
E-thesis

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2006

66.

Mahoua Ma, 20 December 2006
Plant species diversity of buffer zones in agricultural landscapes: In search of determinants from the local to regional scale
E-thesis

65.

Jonna Katajisto, 8 December 2006
Habitat use and population dynamics of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Scandinavia
E-thesis

64.

Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, 2 December 2006
Use of ecological information in urban planning
E-thesis

63.

Henna Piha, 1 December 2006
Impacts of agriculture on amphibians at multiple scales
E-thesis

62.

Alia Sarhan, 20 October 2006
Behavioural, population and genetic processes affecting metapopulation dynamics of the Glanville fritillary butterfly
E-thesis

61.

Kalevi Trontti, 16 June 2006
Population structure and evolution in the ant Plagiolepis pygmaea and its two social parasites Plagiolepis xene and Plagiolepis grassei
E-thesis

60.

Tarja Latva-Karjanmaa, 31 March 2006
Reproduction and population structure in European aspen
E-thesis

59.

Asta Audzijonyte, 27 January 2006
Diversity and zoogeography of continental mysid crustaceans
E-thesis

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2005

58.

Jani Pellikka, 4 November 2005
Management of wildlife richness in Finnish forests - interplay between game-related actors and actions
E-thesis

57.

Sampsa Vilhunen, 28 October 2005
Evaluating innate and learned determinants for improving antipredator behaviour of stocked fish
E-thesis

56.

Paavo Hellstedt, 15 October 2005
Behaviour, dynamics and ecological impact of small mustelids
E-thesis

55.

Anna-Liisa Laine, 27 May 2005
Linking spatial and evolutionary dynamics in a plant-pathogen metapopulation
E-thesis

54.

Annamari Salonen, 21 May 2005
Behavioural and morphological variation in European grayling, Thymallus thymallus, populations
E-thesis

53.

Susanna Lehvävirta, 20 May 2005
Urban woodland ecology - methodological perspectives and empirical studies
E-thesis

52.

Katja Enberg, 13 May 2005
Sustainable harvesting in variable environments
E-thesis

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2004

51.

Reijo Penttilä, 29 October 2004
The impacts of forestry on polyporous fungi in boreal forests
E-thesis

50.

Terho Hyvönen, 28 May 2004
Temporal and spatial variation in weed community composition of spring cereal fields
E-thesis

49.

Maaria Kankare, 28 May 2004
Phylogeny and host associations of Cotesia parasitoids attacking checkerspot butterfles
E-thesis

48.

Lotta Wickström, 27 May 2004
Phylogeny, phyletic coevolution and phylogeography of anoplocephaline cestodes in mammals
E-thesis

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2003

47.

Sari Haikola, 19 December 2003
Inbreeding depression in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia)
E-thesis

46.

Pasi Sihvonen, 7 November 2003
Diversity and classification of the Scopulini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Sterrhinae)
E-thesis

45.

Tero Sipilä, 31 October 2003
Conservation biology of Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) with reference to other European seal populations
E-thesis

44.

Paula Siitonen, 24 October 2003
Reserve network design in fragmented forest landscapes
E-thesis

43.

Jukka Palo, 17 October 2003
Genetic diversity and phylogeography of landlocked seals
E-thesis

42.

Tytti Kontula, 3 October 2003
Phylogeography and evolution of freshwater cottid fishes
E-thesis

41.

Gergely Vàrkonyi, 26 September 2003
Population biology of periodic Xestia moths
E-thesis

40.

Mar Cabeza, 26 April 2003
Spatial population dynamics in reserve-network design
E-thesis

39.

Patrik Byholm, 25 April 2003
Reproduction and dispersal of goshawks in a variable environment
E-thesis

38.

Salla Hannunen, 10 April 2003
Trivial movements and redistribution of polyphagous insect herbivores in heterogeneous vegetation
E-thesis

37.

Innocent Zilihona, 21 March 2003
Responses of invertebrates to human-caused disturbances in East African tropical rainforests: conservation implications
E-thesis

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2002

36.

Olivier Gilg, 13 December 2002
Fluctuations cycliques du Lemming à collier (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus, Traill 1823) au Groenland : un modèle paramétrique pour les interactions prédateurs-proie

35.

Anne Luoma, 15 November 2002
Moose hunting in Finland - management of a heavily harvested population
E-thesis

34.

Vesa Selonen, 1 November 2002
Spacing behaviour of the Siberian flying squirrel - effects of landscape structure
E-thesis

33.

Janne Sundell, 31 May 2002
Vole population dynamics: experiments on predation
E-thesis

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2001

32.

Jon Brommer, 23 November 2001
Intergenerational trade-offs in periodic environments - a reaction norm perspective
E-thesis

31.

Katriina Lahti, 9 November 2001
Integrated analysis of aggression in salmonids
E-thesis

30.

Anna-Liisa Sippola, 19 October 2001
Forest structure and biodiversity in northern boreal forests: Effects of regeneration cutting on flying beetles and wood-decomposing fungi
E-thesis

29.

Matti Koivula, 23 March 2001
Carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in boreal managed forests - meso-scale ecological patterns in relation to modern forestry
E-thesis

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2000

28.

Nuutti Kangas, 16 December 2000
Mechanisms of sexual selection in the sand soby, Pomatoschistus minutus
E-thesis

27.

David Tesar, 1 December 2000
Evolution of life-histories in stochastic environments: Cole’s paradox revisited
E-thesis

26.

Karin Hårding, 17 November 2000
Population dynamics of seals: the influences of spatial and temporal structures
E-thesis

25.

Niklas Wahlberg, 27 October 2000
The ecology and evolution of melitaeine butterflies
E-thesis

24.

Eero Aro, 2 June 2000
The spatial and temporal distribution patterns of cod (Gadus morhua callarias L.) in the Baltic Sea and their dependence on environmental variability - Implications for fishery management

23.

Janica Ylikarjula, 18 May 2000
Nonlinearity and environmental stochasticity in ecological interactions
E-thesis

22.

Markus Öst, 7 April 2000
Feeding constraints and parental care in female eiders
E-thesis

21.

Matti Salminen, 28 April 2000
Influence of smolt size on the postsmolt ecology of ranched Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in the northern Baltic Sea

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1999

20.

Teija Seppä, 18 December 1999
Growth and size variation in Saimaa arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)

19.

Jari Raitaniemi, 5 November 1999
The growth responses of fish to differences in acidity-related lake charasteristics and fish species composition
E-thesis

18.

Heidi Kinnunen, 22 October 1999
In search of spatial scale - Carabid beetle communities in agricultural landscapes

17.

Tomas Roslin, 2 October 1999
Spatial ecology of dung beetles
E-thesis

16.

Gunilla Ståhls, 28 May 1999
Systematics of Syrphidae and taxonomy of Cheilosia (Diptera): morphological and molecular evidence

15.

Mikko Peltonen, 21 May 1999
Bark beetles at forest edges: Effects of cuttings on species' occurrence

14.

Pekka Vilkamaa, 5 March 1999
Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera Prosciara, Lobosciara and Pseudozygoneura (Diptera: Sciaridae)

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1998

13.

Atte Moilanen, 18 December 1998
Modeling metapopulation dynamics

12.

Markku Milonoff, 7 August 1998
Clutch size determination in precocial birds with self-feeding chicks

11.

Mikko Kuussaari, 3 April 1998
Biology of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia)

10.

Lauri Kaila, 20 February 1998
Classification of the Elachistidae (Lepidoptera : Gelechioidea)

9.

Mikko Heino, 23 January 1998
Evolution of age schedules of reproduction and environmental feedback

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1997

8.

Sei-Woong Choi, 19 December 1997
Systematics of the Cidariini (Lepidoptera, Geometridae: Larentiinae)

7.

Anssi Laurila, 21 November 1997
Breeding habitat choice and larval ecology in two anurans

6.

Guangchun Lei, 7 March 1997
Metapopulation of host-parasitoid interactions

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1996

5.

Jari Heikkilä, November 1996
Interactions between small mustelids and voles in Fennoscandia

4.

Marko Nieminen, 1 November 1996
Metapopulation dynamics of moths

3.

Juha Laakkonen, 18 October 1996
Characterization and ecology of Pneumocystis carinii infection in wild small mammals

2.

Jan Lindström, 23 March 1996
Modelling grouse population dynamics

1.

Maija-Liisa Prinkkilä, 17 February 1996
Larval competition in the ecology of Lucilla blowflies

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