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A selection of dung beetle and carrion fly articles by Ilkka Hanski and collaborators (references can be found in the publication list for Ilkka Hanski).

A selection of publications during 2008, 2007 and 2006 by researchers in MRG are listed below. Complete personal publication lists and pdf's or links to the articles are found in the researchers personal pages, see personnel.

 

2008

Arellano L., León-Cortés J.L., and Ovaskainen O. 2008. Patterns of abundance and movement in relation to landscape structure - a study of a common scarab (Canthon cyanellus cyanellus) in Southern Mexico. Landscape Ecology 23:69-78. pdf

Gripenberg, S. & Roslin, T. 2008. Neither the devil nor the deep blue sea: larval mortality factors fail to explain the abundance and distribution of Tischeria ekebladella. Ecological Entomology 33:346-356.

Gripenberg, S., Ovaskainen, O., Morriën, E. and Roslin, T. 2008. Spatial population structure of a specialist leaf-mining moth. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 757-767. pdf

Hanski, I. 2008. Insect conservation in boreal forests. Journal of Insect Conservation, 12:451-454. pdf

Hanski, I. 2008. Spatial patterns of coexistence of competing species in patchy habitats. Theoretical Ecology 1:29-43.

Hanski, I. 2008. The world that became ruined. EMBO reports 9:S34-S36. pdf

Hanski, I., Wirta, H., Nyman, T. & Rahagalala, P. 2008. Resource shifts in Malagasy dung beetles: contrasting processes revealed by dissimilar spatial genetic patterns. Request by e-mail: sami.ojanen(at)helsinki.fi

Koivisto, E., Huitu, O., Sundell, J., Korpimäki, E. 2008. Species-specific limitation of vole population growth by least weasel predation: facilitation of coexistence? Oikos 117:6-12. pdf

Laine, A.-L. 2008. Temperature-mediated patterns of local adaptation in a natural plant-pathogen metapopulation. Ecology Letters 11:327-337. pdf

Lewinsohn, T & Roslin, T. 2008. Four ways toward tropical herbivore megadiversity. Ecology Letters 11: 398-416.

Mitikka, V., Heikkinen, R.K., Luoto, M., Araujo, M.B., Saarinen, K., Pöyry, J., & Fronzek, S. 2008. Predicting range expansion of the map butterfly in Northern Europe using bioclimatic models. Biodiversity and Conservation 17:623-641. pdf

Moilanen, A., Leathwick, J.R., and Elith, J. 2008. A method for spatial freshwater conservation prioritization. Freshwater Biology 53:577-592. pdf

van Nouhuys, S. & Laine, A.-L. 2008. Population dynamics and sex ratio of a parasitoid altered by fungal infected diet of host butterfly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275:787-795. pdf

O'Hara, R. B., Cano Arias, J. M., Ovaskainen, O., Teplitsky, C. and Alho, J. 2008. Bayesian approaches in evolutionary quantitative genetics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:949-957. pdf

Orsini, L., Corander, J. Alasentie, A. and Hanski, I. 2008. Genetic spatial structure in a butterfly metapopulation correlates better with past than present demographic structure. Molecular Ecology 17:2629-2642. pdf

Ovaskainen O. 2008. Analytical and numerical tools for diffusion based movement models. Theoretical Population Biology 73:198-211. pdf

Ovaskainen O., Cano Arias J.M. and Merilä J. 2008. A Bayesian framework for comparative quantitative genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275:669-678. pdf [appendix]

Ovaskainen O., Luoto M., Ikonen I., Rekola H., Meyke E. and Kuussaari M. 2008. An empirical test of a diffusion model: predicting clouded apollo movements in a novel environment. American Naturalist 171:610-619. pdf

Ovaskainen O., Rekola, H., Meyke, E. and Arjas, E 2008. Bayesian methods for analyzing movements in heterogeneous landscapes from mark-recapture data. Ecology 89:542-554. pdf

Patterson T.A., Thomas L., Wilcox C., Ovaskainen O. and Matthiopoulos J. 2008. State-space models of individual animal movement. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23:87-94. pdf

Pöyry, J., Luoto, M., Heikkinen, R.K., & Saarinen, K. 2008. Species traits are associated with the quality of bioclimatic models. Global Ecology & Biogeography 3:403-414. pdf

Rosenlew, H. and Roslin, T. 2008. Habitat fragmentation and the functional efficiency of temperate dung beetles. Oikos 117: 1659-1666.

Roslin, T. and Salminen J-P. 2008. Specialization pays off: contrasting effects of a purified oak tannin on specialist and generalist moth species. Oikos 117: 1560-1568.

Roslin, T., Syrjälä, H., Roland, J., Harrison, P. J., Fownes, S. and Matter, S. F. 2008. Caterpillars on the run - induced defences create spatial patterns in host plant damage. Ecography 31: 335-347.

Saastamoinen, M. 2008. Heritability of dispersal rate and other life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Heredity 100:39-46. pdf

Saastamoinen, M. and Hanski, I. 2008. Genotypic and environmental effects on flight activity and oviposition in the Glanville fritillary. The American Naturalist 171: E701-712. pdf

Sundell, J., Trebatická, L., Oksanen, T., Ovaskainen, O., Haapakoski, M., and Ylönen, H. 2008. Predation on two vole species by a shared predator: antipredatory response and prey preference. Population Ecology 50:257-266. pdf

van Teeffelen, A. & Moilanen, A. 2008. Where and how to manage: optimal selection of conservation actions for multiple species. Biodiversity Informatics 5:1-13. pdf

Thuiller, W., Albert, C., Araujo, M.B., Berry, P.M., Cabeza, M., Guisan, A., Hickler, T., Midgley, G.F., Paterson, J., Schurr, F.M., Sykes, M.T., & Zimmermann, N.E. 2008. Predicting global change impacts on plant species distributions: future challenges. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9:137-152. pdf

Vera, J.C., Wheat, C.W., Fescemyer, H.W., Frilander, M.J., Crawford, D.L., Hanski, I. and Marden, J.H. 2008. Rapid transcriptome characterization for a non-model organism using massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing. Molecular Ecology 7:1636-1647. pdf   supplementary material

Wirta, H., Wirta H., Orsini L. and Hanski I. 2008. An old adaptive radiation of forest dung beetles in Madagascar. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution 47:1076-1089. pdf



2007

Arponen, A., Kondelin, H., & Moilanen, A. 2007. Area-based refinement for selection of reserve sites with the benefit-function approach. Conservation Biology 21:527-533. pdf

Elzinga, J. A., van Nouhuys, S., van Leeuwen, D. J., Biere, A. 2007. Distribution and colonization ability of three parasitoids and their herbivorous host in a fragmented landscape. Basic and Applied Ecology 8: 75 - 88. pdf

Gripenberg, S. and Roslin, T. 2007. Up or down in space? Uniting the bottom-up versus top-down paradigm and spatial ecology. Oikos 116:181 - 188. pdf

Gripenberg, S., Morrien, E., Cudmore, A., Salminen, J.P., & Roslin, T. 2007. Resource selection by female moths in a heterogeneous environment: what is a poor girl to do? Journal of Animal Ecology 76:854-865. pdf

Gripenberg, S, Salminen J-P, and Roslin, T. 2007. A tree in the eyes of a moth - temporal variation in oak leaf quality and leaf-miner performance. Oikos, pdf

Hanski, I. 2007. Insect conservation in boreal forests. Journal of Insect Conservation, DOI 10.1007/s10841-007-9085-6.

Hanski, I. 2007. Spatial patterns of coexistence of competing species in patchy habitats. Theoretical Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s12080-007-0004-y.

Hanski, I., Koivulehto, H., Cameron, A., & Rahagalala, P. 2007. Deforestation and apparent extinctions of endemic forest beetles in Madagascar. Biology Letters 3:344-347. pdf

Kaartinen, R. & Quicke, D.L.J. 2007. A revision of the parasitic wasp genus Bathyaulax Szepligeti (Hymenoptera : Braconidae : Braconinae) from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Natural History 41:125-212. pdf

Laine, A.L. 2007. Detecting local adaptation in a natural plant-pathogen metapopulation: a laboratory vs. field transplant approach. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:1665-1673. pdf

Laine, A.L. 2007. Pathogen fitness components and genotypes differ in their sensitivity to nutrient and temperature variation in a wild plant-pathogen association. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:2371-2378. pdf

Mikusinski, G., Pressey, R.L., Edenius, L., Kujala, H., Moilanen, A., Niemelä, J., & Ranius, T. 2007. Conservation Planning in Forest Landscapes of Fennoscandia, and an Approach to the Challenge of Countdown 2010. Conservation Biology 21:1445-1454. pdf

Moilanen, A. 2007. Landscape Zonation, benefit functions and target-based planning: Unifying reserve selection strategies. Biological Conservation 134:571-579. pdf

Moilanen, A. & Cabeza, M. 2007. Accounting for habitat loss rates in sequential reserve selection: Simple methods for large problems. Biological Conservation 136:470-482. pdf

Moilanen, A. & Wintle, B.A. 2007. The boundary-quality penalty: a quantitative method for approximating species responses to fragmentation in reserve selection. Conservation Biology 21:355-364. pdf

Montreuil, O. & Viljanen, H. 2007. Contribution à l’étude des Canthonini de Madagascar (7e note) : Mises au point taxonomiques et nomenclaturales dans le genre Nanos Westwood, 1947 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Revue fr. Ent. (N.S.), 29, 1–10.

Neflemann, C., Stoen, O.G., Kindberg, J., Swenson, J.E., Vistnes, I., Ericsson, G., Katajisto, J., Kaltenborn, B.P., Martin, J., & Ordiz, A. 2007. Terrain use by an expanding brown bear population in relation to age, recreational resorts and human settlements. Biological Conservation 138:157-165. pdf

North, A. and Ovaskainen, O. 2007. Interactions between dispersal, competition and landscape heterogeneity. Oikos, 116:1106-1119. pdf

Orsini, L., Koivulehto, H., & Hanski, I. 2007. Molecular evolution and radiation of dung beetles in Madagascar. Cladistics 23:145-168. pdf

Orsini, L., Pajunen, M., Hanski, I., & Savilahti, H. 2007. SNP discovery by mismatch-targeting of Mu transposition. Nucleic Acids Research, 35(6). pdf

Painter, J.N., Siitonen, J., & Hanski, I. 2007. Phylogeographical patterns and genetic diversity in three species of Eurasian boreal forest beetles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91:267-279. pdf

Roslin, T., Laine, A.-L., & Gripenberg, S. 2007. Spatial population structure in an obligate plant pathogen colonizing oak (Quercus robur). Functional Ecology 21:1168-1177.

Saastamoinen, M. 2007. Life-history, genotypic, and environmental correlates of clutch size in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Ecological Entomology 32:235-242. pdf

Saastamoinen, M. 2007. Mobility and lifetime fecundity in new versus old populations of the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Oecologia 153:569-578. pdf

Saastamoinen, M., van Nouhuys, S., Nieminen, M., O'Hara, B. and Suomi, J. 2007. Development and survival of a specialist herbivore, Melitaea cinxia, on host plants producing high and low concentrations of iridoid glycosides. Ann. Zool. Fennici 44:70 - 80. pdf

Sarhan, A. and Kokko, H. 2007. Multiple mating in the glanville fritillary butterfly: A case of within-generation bet hedging? Evolution, March:606 - 616. pdf

Van Teeffelen, A.J. A. and Ovaskainen, O. 2007. Can the cause of aggregation
be inferred from species distributions? Oikos 116(1): 4 - 16. pdf

Tscharntke, T., Bommarco, R., Clough, Y., Crist, T., Kleijn, D., Rand, T., Tylianakis, J., van Nouhuys, S., & S., V. 2007. Conservation biological control and enemy diversity on a landscape scale. Biological Control 43:294-309. pdf

Välimäki, K., Hinten, G., & Hanski, I. 2007. Inbreeding and competitive ability in the common shrew (Sorex araneus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 997-1005. pdf

Yang, J., Välineva, T., Hong, J.X., Bu, T.X., Yao, Z., Jensen, O.N., Frilander, M.J., & Silvennoinen, O. 2007. Transcriptional co-activator protein p100 with snRNP proteins and facilitates the E of the spliceosorne. Nucleic Acids Research 35:4485-4494. pdf

Zheng C., Ovaskainen O., Saastamoinen M. and Hanski I. 2007. Age-dependent survival analyzed with Bayesian models of mark-recapture data. Ecology 88:1970-1976. pdf

 

2006

Gilg, O., Sittler, B., Sabard, B., Hurstel, R., Sané, R., Delattre, P. & Hanski, I. 2006. Functional and numerical responses of four lemming predators in high arctic Greenland . Oikos 113:193-216. Oikos 2006 Gilg et al.pdf

Hanski, I., Saastamoinen, M. & Ovaskainen, O. 2006. Dispersal-related life-history trade-offs in a butterfly metapopulation. Journal of Animal Ecology 75:91 - 100. J Anim Ecol 2006 Hanski et al.pdf

Hanski, I. & Saccheri, I. 2006. Molecular-level variation affects population growth in a butterfly metapopulation. PLoS Biology 4:719 - 726. PLoS 2006 Hanski & Saccheri.pdf

Helm, A., Hanski, I. & Pärtel, M. 2006. Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation. Ecology Letters 9:72 - 77. Ecol Lett 2006 Helm et al.pdf

Laine, A.-L. & Hanski, I. 2006. Large-scale spatial dynamics of specialist plant pathogen. Journal of Ecology 94: 217 - 226. J Ecol 2006 Laine & Hanski.pdf

Latva-Karjanmaa, T, Suvanto, L, Leinonen K. & Rita, H. 2006. Sexual reproduction of European aspen (Populus tremula L.) at prescribed burned site: the effects of moisture conditions. New Forests 31: 545 - 558. New Forests 2006 Latva-Karjanmaa et al.pdf

Löbel, S., Snäll, T. & Rydin, H. 2006. Species richness patterns and metapopulation processes - evidence from epiphyte communities in boreo-nemoral forests. Ecography 29:169 - 182. Ecography 2006 Lobel et al.pdf

Löbel, S., Snäll, T. & Rydin, H. 2006. Metapopulation processes in epiphytes inferred from patterns of regional distribution and local abundance in fragmented forest landscapes. Journal of Ecology 94:856 - 868. J Ecology 2006 Lobel et al.pdf

Ovaskainen, O. and Cornell, S. J. 2006. Space and stochasticity in population dynamics. PNAS, 103,  12781 - 12786. PNAS 2006 Ovaskainen & Cornell.pdf

Ovaskainen, O. and Cornell, S. J. 2006. Asymptotically exact analysis of stochastic metapopulation dynamics with explicit spatial structure. Theoretical Population Biology 69, 13-33. TPB 2006 Ovaskainen & Cornell.pdf

Ovaskainen, O. and Laine, A.-L. 2006. Inferring evolutionary signals from ecological data in a plant-pathogen metapopulation. Ecology 87, 880 - 891. Ecology 2006 Ovaskainen & Laine.pdf

Penttilä, R., Lindgren, M., Miettinen, O., Rita, H. & Hanski, I. 2006. Consequences of forest fragmentation for polyporous fungi at two spatial scales. Oikos 114:225 - 240. Oikos 2006 Penttila et al.pdf

Pohjamo, M., Laaka-Lindberg, S., Ovaskainen, O., and Korpelainen, H. 2006. Dispersal potential of spores and asexual propagules in the epixylic hepatic Anastrophyllum hellerianum. Evolutionary Ecology 20, 415 - 430. Evol Ecol 2006 Pohjamo et al.pdf

Poulin, M., Bélisle, M. & Cabeza, M. 2006. Within-site habitat configuration in reserve design: a case study with a peatland bird. Biological Conservation 128: 55 - 66. Biol Cons 2006 Poulin et al.pdf

Roslin, T., Gripenberg, S., Salminen, J-P., Karonen, M., O'Hara, R B., Pihlaja, K. & Pulkkinen, P. 2006. Seeing the trees for the leaves - oaks as mosaics for a host-specific moth. Oikos 113: 106 - 120. Oikos 2006 Roslin et al.pdf

Roth, D., Roland, J. & Roslin, T. 2006. Parasitoids on the loose - experimental lack of support of the parasitoid movement hypothesis. Oikos 115:277 - 285. Oikos 2006 Roth et al.pdf

Saccheri, I. & Hanski, I. 2006. Natural selection and population dynamics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:341 - 347. TREE 2006 Saccheri & Hanski.pdf

Sundell, J., Kojola, I. & Hanski, I. 2006. A new GPS-GSM-based method to study behavior of brown bears. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(2). Wildlife S Bull 2006 Sundell et al.pdf

Van Teeffelen, A.J.A., M. Cabeza & A. Moilanen. 2006. Connectivity, probabilities and persistence: comparing reserve selection strategies. Biodiversity and Conservation 15: p. 899 - 919. Biodiv Cons 2006 van Teeffelen et al.pdf