Research at the Biodiversity Unit

Research at Biodiversity Unit focuses broadly on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and –services.

The research infrastructure including the botanical garden and two field stations, long-term experiments and environmental monitoring datasets and scientific collections provides an excellent support for multidisciplinary research on topical questions such as climate change, biodiversity crisis, and the sustainable use and protection of natural resources in both natural and man-made environments.

In addition to its own research, the Biodiversity Unit promotes multidisciplinary research at the university and serves as a showcase for public outreach.

Our research

Aerobiology

Kevo Subarctic Research Institute

Archipelago Research Institute

Empirical Research

Natural History Museum

New publications

Biodiversity seen through the perspective of insects: 10 simple rules on methodological choices and experimental design for genomic studies (2019)

PeerJ

Matos-Maravi P, Ritter CD, Barnes CJ, Nielsen M, Olsson U, Wahlberg N, Marquina D, Saaksjarvi I, Antonelli A

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Molecular phylogeny of Ateleutinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): systematics and biogeography of a widespread parasitoid wasp lineage (2019)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Santos BF, Alvarado M, Sääksjärvi IE, van Noort S, Villemant C, Brady SG

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Heritable Epichloe symbiosis shapes fungal but not bacterial communities of plant leaves (2019)

Scientific Reports

Riitta Nissinen, Marjo Helander, Manoj Kumar, Kari Saikkonen

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

A new Gongylidioides Oi, 1960 from Taiwan (Aranei: Linyphiidae) (2019)

Arthropoda Selecta

Tanasevitch AV, Marusik YM

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Postglacial colonization history reflects in the genetic structure of natural populations of Festuca rubra in Europe (2019)

Ecology and Evolution

von Cräutlein M., Leinonen P.H., Korpelainen H., Helander M., Väre H., Saikkonen K.

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Biodiversity assessments in the 21st century: the potential of insect traps to complement environmental samples for estimating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity using high-throughput DNA metabarcoding (2019)

Genome

Ritter CD, Haggqvist S, Karlsson D, Saaksjarvi IE, Muasya AM, Nilsson RH, Antonelli A

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Revision of some central European species of Inocybe (Fr.: Fr.) Fr. subgenus Inocybe, with the description of five new species (2019)

Mycological Progress

Ditte Bandini, Bernd Oertel, Sebastian Ploch, Tahir Ali, Jukka Vauras, Anja Schneider, Markus Scholler, Ursula Eberhardt, Marco Thines

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

The Klingon batbugs: Morphological adaptations in the primitive bat bugs, Bucimex chilensis and Primicimex cavernis, including updated phylogeny of Cimicidae (2019)

Ossa G., Johnson J.S., Puisto A.I.E., Rinne V., Sääksjärvi I.E., Waag A., Vesterinen E.J., Lilley T.M.

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Vad har strömmingen at berätta? (2019)

Marjut Rajasilta, Jari Hänninen, Katja Mäkinen

(E1 Popularised article, newspaper article)

Near-ground effect of height on pollen exposure (2019)

Environmental Research

Rojo J, Oteros O, Pérez-Badia R, Cervigón P, Ferencova Z, Gutiérrez-Bustillo AM, Bergmann KC, Oliver G, Thibaudon M, Albertini R, Rodríguez-De la Cruz D, Sánchez-Reyes E, Sánchez-Sánchez J, Pessi AM, Reiniharju J, Saarto A, Calderón MC, Guerrero C, Berra D, Bonini M, Chiodini E, Fernández-González D, García J, Trigo MM, Myszkowska D, Fernández-Rodríguez S, Tormo-Molina R, Damialis A, Kolek F, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Severova E, Caeiro E, Ribeiro H, Magyar D, Makra L, Udvardy O, Alcázar P, Galán C, Borycka K, Kasprzyk I, Newbigin E, Adams-Groom B, Apangu GP, Frisk CA, Skjøth CA, Radišić P, Šikoparija B, Celenk S, Schmidt-Weber CB, Buters J

(A1 Journal article – refereed)

Kaikki julkaisut

Research at the Biodiversity Unit

Our research

Aerobiology

Kevo Subarctic Research Institute

Archipelago Research Institute

Empirical Research

Natural History Museum

New publications

Biodiversity seen through the perspective of insects: 10 simple rules on methodological choices and experimental design for genomic studies (2019)

Molecular phylogeny of Ateleutinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): systematics and biogeography of a widespread parasitoid wasp lineage (2019)

Heritable Epichloe symbiosis shapes fungal but not bacterial communities of plant leaves (2019)

A new Gongylidioides Oi, 1960 from Taiwan (Aranei: Linyphiidae) (2019)

Postglacial colonization history reflects in the genetic structure of natural populations of Festuca rubra in Europe (2019)

Biodiversity assessments in the 21st century: the potential of insect traps to complement environmental samples for estimating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity using high-throughput DNA metabarcoding (2019)

Revision of some central European species of Inocybe (Fr.: Fr.) Fr. subgenus Inocybe, with the description of five new species (2019)

The Klingon batbugs: Morphological adaptations in the primitive bat bugs, Bucimex chilensis and Primicimex cavernis, including updated phylogeny of Cimicidae (2019)

Vad har strömmingen at berätta? (2019)

Near-ground effect of height on pollen exposure (2019)

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