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Satu
Ramula
Docent, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University Lecturer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
PhD, adjunct professor

Contact

+358 29 450 4227
+358 50 465 3149
Vesilinnantie 5
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

Demographic methods
invasive species
plant ecology
population ecology
soil microbiota
structured population models

Biography

2020-  University lecturer in plant ecology, University of Turku

2015-2020 Academy of Finland research fellow, University of Turku

2006 PhD, Stockholm University


Teaching

  • Current courses:
  • BIOL1007 Structure and function of plants
  • BIOL4220 Biological data analysis: multivariate methods
  • EKOL2110 Populations, communities, and ecosystems
  • EKOL2111 Practical exercises in ecology
  • EKOL2354 Identification of vascular plants in Finland
  • EKOL2302 Terrestial plant ecology, field course
  • MAAN6154 Biogeography


Research


My research focuses on population ecology and invasive species. I am broadly interested in population-level ecological, evolutionary and methodological questions, including drivers of plant invasions, species interactions, and data quality issues. I often apply structured population models to understand spatial and temporal variation in wild populations, and to produce management recommendations.

I am a member of the science committee for the COMPADRE & COMADRE database (https://www.compadre-db.org) project to create an open-access database of matrix population models for both animals and plants from all over the world to facilitate its usage for scientific and teaching purposes. These databases are a repository of demographic data from (mostly) published literature. As the number of published matrix population models (MPMs) grows, so do the opportunities to ask exciting questions about plant and animal demography, ecology, and evolution at a global and cross-taxonomic scale. The underlying motivation behind COMPADRE and COMADRE is to facilitate this research by collecting, digitising, and archiving MPMs at a central repository in a standardised format.  

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JecNUpoAAAAJ&hl=en

Website: https://sites.utu.fi/popdyn





Publications

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Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity (2020)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Annabel L. Smith, Trevor R. Hodkinson, Jesus Villellas, Jane A. Catford, Anna Mária Csergo, Simone P. Blomberg, Elizabeth E. Crone, Johan Ehrlén, Maria B. Garcia, Anna-Liisa Laine, Deborah A. Roach, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Glenda M. Wardle, Dylan Z. Childs, Bret D. Elderd, Alain Finn, Sergi Munné-Bosch, Maude E. A. Baudraz, Judit Bódis, Francis Q. Brearley, Anna Bucharova, Christina M. Caruso, Richard P. Duncan, John M. Dwyer, Ben Gooden, Ronny Groenteman, Liv Norunn Hamre, Aveliina Helm, Ruth Kelly, Lauri Laanisto, Michele Lonati, Joslin L. Moore, Melanie Morales, Siri Lie Olsen, Meelis Pärtel, William K. Petry, Satu Ramula, Pil U. Rasmussen, Simone Ravetto Enri, Anna Roeder, Christiane Roscher, Marjo Saastamoinen, Ayco J. M. Tack, Joachim Paul Töpper, Gregory E. Vose, Elizabeth M. Wandrag, Astrid Wingler, Yvonne M. Buckley
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Overcompensation: a 30-year perspective (2019)

Ecology
Satu Ramula, Ken N. Paige, Tommy Lennartsson, Juha Tuomi
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))