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Metapopulation Research Group Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1) FI-00014 University of Helsinki FINLAND phone +358 9 1911 (Exchange) firstname.lastname(at)helsinki.fi Comments on the pages to
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Profile I finished my MSc in February 2006 from the University of Oulu. I did my MSc thesis project in the MRG in Åland islands in 2003, about behavioural ecology of a specialist parasitoid of Melitaea cinxia, with Saskya van Nouhuys as my supervisor. In the beginning of January 2006 I continued in the MRG as a PhD student under the supervision of Tomas Roslin. Research My research interests focuses on community structure and how host plant density and habitat fragmentation might change it. The insect communities under study consist of specialist leaf miners, gall wasps and their natural enemies on English oak. As my key project I will construct quantitative food webs for the miners, gallers and their inquilines and parasitoids for 30 local communities in the South western archipelago of Finland. I collected the data in 2006 and 2007. Now I’m identifying the reared insects and starting to analyze results. I’m also planning to use molecular methods to untangle complicated relationships between different species. As a second project I will study how community structure changes on different spatial scales, and across the distribution of the English oak in Finland. For this project, I did a National Oak Gall wasp survey in the summer 2007 together with Bess Hardwick. These research projects will be mainly carried out on the south-western island of Wattkast in Korppoo. My co-worker Ayco Tack is also studying insects on the English oak. Misc My favourite ways of spending spare time include bird watching, collecting cool parasitoids, travelling and especially combining these three. |
