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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 have been in the University of Helsinki since 1980. I became seriously interested in metapopulation dynamics in 1989 and started the Metapopulation Research Group in 1992. It has been wonderful to see the growth and development of MRG, and I am truly privileged in having had the opportunity to interact with so many excellent students and researchers over the years. Research I have worked in population and community ecology and conservation biology since the early 1980s. I have made contributions to the study of population regulation, cyclic population dynamics, mechanisms of coexistence in communities, and metapopulation biology. The long-term research on the Glanville fritillary butterfly was started in 1991, and ever since it has been the context within which much of the metapopulation work in MRG has been conducted. At present, I am developing a large-scale research project on the biology of tropical forest dung beetles in Madagascar, thereby returning to my first love in ecology (PhD on dung beetle community ecology in 1979). Misc Fixing our house has turned out to be a rewarding (and compulsory) hobby.
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