NAME
Laakso Jouni Tapio
ADDRESS Integrative Ecology Unit, Department of
Bioscience
FINLAND
email: jouni.laakso AT
helsinki.fi
home page: http://www.helsinki.fi/˜jlaakso
PERSONAL
Date of
birth:
8. June 1967
Place of
birth:
Nationality:
Finnish
QUALIFICATIONS
-Master of Philosophy (magna cumlaude approbatur), 7 April
1993,
-Doctor in Philosophy, 7.10.
1998 (approved with honours),
-Docentships:
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY (in the order of fluency)
- Finnish, English, Swedish
EMPLOYMENT
1990 Research assistant,
1991 Research assistant,
1992 Research assistant,
University of Turku, 1.6.-15.6. 1992
Teacher in ecology field
course,
1993 Teacher in soil ecology
course,
Teaching material writer for The Open College,
1994 Researcher, University
of Jyväskylä, 1.1-31.12 1994
Teacher in soil ecology
course,
1995- Researcher,
Finland),
includes lecturing in various courses at the university
Researcher, University of Helsinki,
1.4-30.10. 1998
1998 Researcher, University
of Jyväskylä, 1.11-31.12. 1998
1999-
Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Evolutionary Ecology, University of
Jyväskylä, 1.1. 1999-31.7.2002
2002- Researcher, Integrative Ecology Unit, University of Helsinki (Academy of Finland), a member of the Nordic Centre of Excellence (“The dynamics of ecological systems under the influence of climatic variation”, 2003-2007), “Senior Scientist” member of the Centre of Excellence in Evolution Research, Jyväskylä (2006-2011)
GRANTS AND RESEARCH FUNDING
1994 Full-time researcher grant,
1998 Researcher grant, Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth, 1.1.1999 (30000FIM)
2005 Project funding “evolution of species interactions in fluctuating
environment”,
PUBLICATIONS
1. Laakso J., Salminen J. ja Setälä H., 1995. Effects of abiotic conditions and microarthropod
predation on the structure and function of soil animal communities, Acta Zool. Fenn., 196:162-167.
2.
Huhta, V., Sulkava,
P. and Laakso, J. 1996. Impact of soil faunal structure
on decomposition and N-mineralisation in relation to temperature and moisture
in forest soil. - Pedobiologia 40:505-513.
3.
Laakso, J. and Setälä, H. 1997. Nest mounds
of wood ants (Formica aquilonia): hot spots
for litter dwelling earthworms. Oecologia 111:565-569.
4. Setälä, H., Laakso, J., Mikola, J.,
and Huhta, V. 1998. Functional diversity of decomposer organisms in relation to primary
production. - Applied
Soil Ecology,
5. Laakso,
J. and Setälä, H.
1998. Composition and trophic structure of detrital food web in ant (Formica aquilonia)
nest mounds and in the surrounding soil. - Oikos, 81:266-278.
6. Laakso,
J. 1998. “Sensitivity of ecosystem functioning to changes in the structure
of soil food webs” Thesis.
7. Laakso,
J. 1999. Short-term effects of wood ants (Formica aquilonia
Yarr.) on soil animal community structure. Soil
Biology and Biochemistry 31:337-343.
8. Laakso,
J. and Setälä H.
1999. Sensitivity of primary production
to changes in the architecture of belowground food webs. Oikos
87:57-64.
9. Laakso,
J. and Setälä, H.
1999. Population and ecosystem-level effects of predation on
nematodes. Oecologia 120:279-286.
10.Katajisto J., Huhta V. and Laakso
J., 1999. Plant effects on
the soil community: a microcosm experiment. Eur.
J. Soil Biol. 35:17-21.
11.Laakso,
J. and Setälä, H. 2000. Impacts of wood ants (Formica aquilonia Yarr.) on the
invertebrate food web of boreal forest floor. Annales Zoologici Fennici 37:93-100.
12.Laakso, J., Setälä, H. and
Palojärvi, A. 2000. Influence
of decomposer food web structure and nitrogen availability on plant growth.
- Plant and Soil 225:153-165.
13.Ranta, E., Lundberg, P., Kaitala, V.
and Laakso, J. 2000. Visibility of the environmental noise
modulating population dynamics. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B 267:1851-1856.
14.Ylikarjula, J., Alaja, S., Laakso,
J. and Tesar, D. 2000. Effects of patch number and dispersal patterns
on population dynamics and synchrony. Journal of Theoretical Biology
207:377-387.
15.Laakso,
J. and Kaitala, V. and Ranta, E. 2001 How does environmental variation
translate into biological processes? - Oikos 92: 119-122.
16.Sulkava, P., Huhta, V., Laakso, J.
and Gylén, E-R. 2001. Influence
of soil fauna and habitat patchiness on plant (Betula pendula) growth
and carbon dynamics in a microcosm experiment. - Oecologia
129:133-138.
17. Laakso, J. and Kaitala, V., Ranta, E. 2003. Nonlinear biological responses to disturbance: consequences on population dynamics. Ecological Modelling 162: 247-258.
18. Gårdmark A., Enberg, K., Ripa, J.,
Laakso, J. and Kaitala, V. 2003. The
ecology of recovery. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 40: 131-144.
19. Laakso, J., Löytynoja, K., and Kaitala, V. 2003. Environmental
noise and population dynamics of
the ciliated protozoa Tetrahymena thermophila in aquatic microcosms. Oikos 102: 663-671.
20. Laakso, J. and Kaitala, V., Ranta, E. 2004. Nonlinear biological responses to disturbance affect population extinction risk. Oikos 104: 142-148.
21. Ketola, T., Laakso, J., Airaksinen, S. and Kaitala, V. 2004. Evolution of Hsp90 expression in Tetrahymena thermophila (Protozoa, Ciliata) populations exposed to thermally variable environment. Evolution, 58: 741-748.
22. Hiltunen, T., Laakso, J. and Kaitala, V. 2005 Interactions between environmental variability and immigration rate control patterns of species diversity. Ecol. Modell. In press.
23. Laakso, J. Kaitala, V., and Ranta, E. 2005 Population dynamic consequences of adaptive growth rate in fluctuating environment. Ecol. Modell. In press.
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
2000-2002: Image analysis software for
automated counting and identifying microbes from aquatic samples.
RESPONSIBLE
SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS:
1.
Juha Katajisto (MSc thesis),
2.
Katja Löytynoja (MSc thesis),
3.
Teppo Hiltunen (MSc
thesis),
4.
Tarmo Ketola (MSc thesis),
5.
Teppo Hiltunen (PhD thesis),
6.
Ville Friman (MSc
thesis),
7.
Minna Pekkonen (PhD thesis).
8.
Ville Friman (PhD thesis).
9.
Maija Orava (MSc thesis),
Research proposals: Natural
Environment Research Council,