Publications by researchers of MRG

Articles

Theses

PhD-, PhL- and MSc-Thesis by MRG.

PhD-Theses

Riikka Kaartinen 2011: Spatial ecology of food webs : herbivore-parasitoid communities on the pedunculate oak.
Ace North 2010: Effects of environmental variation on ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
Ayco Tack 2010: Spatial ecology of an oak-associated herbivore community : A metacommunity of herbivores.
Vapru Mitikka 2010: The range expansion of the European map butterfly in Finland.
Jenni Hottola 2009: Communities of wood-inhabiting fungi : Ecological requirements and responses to forest management and fragmentation.
Kristjan Niitepõld 2009: Flight metabolic rate in the Glanville fritillary butterfly.
Heidi Viljanen 2009: Species-based and community-level approaches to conservation prioritization.
Helena Wirta 2009: Dung beetle radiations in Madagascar.
Chaozhi Zheng 2009: Modeling ecological and evolutionary processes in spatially structured populations.
Anni Arponen 2009: Species-based and community-level approaches to conservation prioritization.
Sofia Gripenberg 2007: Spatial ecology of a specialist insect herbivore : the leaf-mining moth Tischeria ekebladella on the pedunculate oak Quercus robur.
Marjo Saastamoinen 2007: Dispersal and related life history traits in the Glanville fritillary butterfly.
Astrid van Teffelen 2007: Where and how to conserve: Extending the scope of spatial reserve network design.
Jonna Katajisto 2006: Habitat use and population dynamics of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Scandinavia.
Alia Sarhan 2006: Behavioural, population, and genetic processes affecting metapopulation dynamics of the Glanville fritillary butterfly.
Tarja Latva-Karjanmaa 2006: Reproduction and population structure in European aspen.
Paavo Hellstedt 2005: Behaviour, dynamics and ecological impact of small mustelids.
Anna-Liisa Laine 2005: Linking spatial and evolutionary dynamics in a plant-pathogen
      metapopulation.
Reijo Penttilä 2004: The impacts of forestry on polyporous fungi in boreal forests.
Maaria Kankare 2004: Phylogeny and host associations of Cotesia parasitoids attacking
      checkerspot butterflies.
Mar Cabeza 2003: Spatial population dynamics in reserve-network design.
Sari Haikola 2003: Inbreeding depression in the Glanville Fritillary Butterfly ( Melitaea cinxia).
Gergely Várkonyi 2003: Population biology of periodic Xestia moths.
Janne Sundell 2002: Vole Population Dynamics: Experiments on Predation.
Olivier Gilg, 2002: Collared lemming ( Dicrostonyx groenlandicus , Traill 1823) cycles in
      Greenland: a parameterized model for the predator-prey interaction.
Niklas Wahlberg 2000: The Ecology and Evolution of Melitaeine Butterflies.
Tomas Roslin 1999: Spatial Ecology of Dung Beetles.

PhL-Theses

Atte Komonen 1999: Biology of insect populations and communities inhabiting old-growth
      forest polyporous fungi.

MSc-Theses

Minttu Kataja 2007: Finland’s last Onthophagus gibbulus occurrence – size, boundaries and the factors affecting to the spatial distribution.
Anne Reichgelt 2007 : Density-Dependent Aggregation of Hyperparasitoid Mesochorus stigmaticus.
Kaisa Torri 2007: Oviposition preference, habitat selection and parasitoids of Melitaea athalia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).
Heidi Syrjälä 2007: Caterpillars on the run – induced defences create spatial patterns in host plant damage
Anni Arponen 2005: Valuing biodiversity in reserve selection: species weighting and benefit
      functions.
Riikka Kaartinen 2005: The significance of odours and learning in the host location behaviour
      of the parasitoid wasp Hyposoter horticola (Gravenhorst).
Kaisa Välimäki 2005: The effects of inbreeding on the competitive ability of young common       shrews (Sorex araneus).
Helena Koivulehto 2004: Madagascar´s dung beetles - rain forest species avoid open areas.
Heidi Viljanen 2004: Diet specialization among endemic forest dung beetles in Madagascar.
Johanna Ehrnsten 2003: The within-patch movement behaviour of a mobile parasitoid,
      Hyposoter horticola.
Jenni Hottola 2003: Relationships between the structure of polypore communities and coarse
      woody debris in the forests of eastern Finland and adjacent areas in Russian Karelia.
Hanna Paulomäki 2003: The direct and indirect effects of weather on the local populations of
      the Glanville fritillary.
Astrid van Teeffelen 2003: Habitat loss, connectivity and probabilities: comparing reserve
      selection strategies.
Kata Valosaari 2003: Spatial and temporal variation in mortality in the juvenile stages of the
      Glanville fritillary butterfly ( Melitaea cinxia ) in Åland islands.
Jussi Ikävalko, 2002: Insect communities inhabiting bracket fungi of genus Fomitopsis in
      northeast China.
Eeva Punju 2002: Larval competition between two specialist parasitoids, Cotesia melitaeaum
      and Hyposoter horticola.
Marjo Saastamoinen 2002: Effects of secondary compounds of the host plants Plantago
      lanceolata and Veronica spicata on the growth and survival of the Glanville fritillary
      (Melitaea cinxia) larvae.
Sofia Gripenberg 2002: Spatial population structure and local adaptation in Tischeria
      ekebladella.
Christian Anton 2001: Host selection and performance of the parasitoid Cotesia melitaearum
      in a tritrophic context.
Anne Koivunen 2001: The structure of dung beetle communities in a decreasing network of
      cattle farms.
Vesa Hyyryläinen 2000: The occurrence and ecology of two lycaenid species, silver-studded
      blue butterfly ( Plebejus argus ) and idas blue ( Lycaeides idas ) in Finland.
Katja Ojala 2000: The wing pattern variation and fluctuating asymmetry of the Glanville fritillary
      butterfly in Åland archipelago.
Otto Miettinen 2000: Polypores of aspen ( Populus tremula ), their ecology and response to
      forest management.
Eva Kallio 1999: Behavior and survival of captive-reared least weasels in nature.
Tiia Kalske 1999: Estimating the indirect effects of least weasel presence on field vole
      behaviour and demography in a field experiment.