Toni
Laaksonen
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Animal Ecology
Areas of expertise
animal behaviour
applied ecology
conservation biology
life history evolution
population ecology
predator-prey interactions
Biography
I am a professor of animal ecology at the Department of Biology, University of Turku. Before this position I was working as a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) 2018-2019, as a university lecturer and Academy research fellow at the University of Turku (2011-2017) and as a senior curator and Academy research fellow at Finnish Museums of Natural History, University of Helsinki (2009-2010). I gained both my MSc (2000) and PhD (2003) in Turku and worked as a post doc in Turku and in the Netherlands institute of Ecology (2005) before the Academy fellowships.
Research
My research interests range from animal behaviour and population ecology to multitrophic ecological interactions and evaluation of conservation strategies. My current main study systems are the hole-breeding animal community, waterfowl and birds of prey. See my publications in GoogleScholar profile or Publons ResearcherID profile (link above) because not all are listed below in the University of Turku database.
Publications
Great cormorants and grey herons depredating at finfish aquaculture: Factors affecting the human–wildlife conflict (2025)
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Winter survival of a small predator is determined by the amount of food in hoards (2025)
Journal of Animal Ecology
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Mesopredator control for waterfowl conservation: hunting reduces invasive raccoon dog abundance and predation on artificial nests (2025)
European Journal of Wildlife Research
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Cormorant predation in fyke net fishing: The direct effects of a protected bird on coastal commercial fishing (2025)
Fisheries Research
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Living with the enemy: the return of an apex predator is associated with habitat shifts in a common but rapidly declining prey population (2025)
Landscape Ecology
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Supplementary winter feeding is associated with higher recruitment rates in a population of a scavenging bird of prey (2025)
Oecologia
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Reduced survival in a soaring bird breeding in wind turbine proximity along the northern Baltic Sea coast (2024)
Biological Conservation
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Arctic migrating barnacle geese utilize accommodation fields in a new agricultural staging area (2024)
Journal of Applied Ecology
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Fecal calcium levels of bird nestlings as a potential indicator of species-specific metal sensitivity (2024)
Environmental Pollution
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Broad geographic variation in age- and sex-dependent origin of harvested eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) revealed by stable-hydrogen (δ2H) isotope analyses of feathers (2024)
European Journal of Wildlife Research
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