Finnish national ecology meeting
Turku 13-14.12 2012
Thursday 13.12 Biocity, Presidenttisali
9.15-9.30 Kai Lindström Welcome
9.30-10.00 Erkki Korpimäki Do vertebrate predators regulate prey populations?
10.00-10.30 Hannu Pöysä Ecology of alternative reproductive tactics: conspecific brood parasitism 10.30-10.45 Coffee
Biocity, Ministerisali
10.45-11.15 Markus Öst Eider ducks as a model to study reproductive cooperation and conflict
11.15-11.45 Kristina Noreikiene Studying individual variation in life-history trade-offs under physiological stress in
eiders (Somateria mollissima)
11.45-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Hanna Tuomisto Ecological research in Amazonia: piecing together a picture of the tropical rain forest and how its biodiversity came about
13.30-14.00 Anu Valtonen Recovery of biodiversity in tropical rain forests after human induced disturbances 14.00-14.30 Martin Forsius Impacts of climate change and land-use change on ecosystem processes and terrestri-
al biodiversity
14.30-15.00 Tero Klemola Population cycles and outbreaks of birch-feeding geometrid moths in Lapland 15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.00 Marianne Fred Joining forces for Science; Applied and Fundamental Universities 16.00-16.30 Janne Kotiaho Evolutionary Biology at the University of Jyväskylä
16.30-17.00 Mikko Mönkkönen Conservation Biology at the University of Jyväskylä 17.00-17.15 Break
17.15-18.00 Discussion Discussion about the initiative of peerage of science
Friday 14.12
Biocity, Ministerisali
9.15-9.45 Ilkka Hanski The species-fragmented area relationship 9.45-10.15 Markku Viitasalo Why investigate spatial ecology in the Baltic Sea?
10.15-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.30 Discussion Founding a Finnish Oikos-Society, ways forward 11.30-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Craig Primmer Genomics in the wild: genome-wide scans reveal a genetic contribution to life history
strategy in wild Atlantic salmon
13.30-14.00 Sami Merilaita How to not look good: studies on protective coloration 14.00-14.15 Coffee
14.15-14.45 Otso Ovaskainen A strength of Finnish (and Russian) ecological research: large-scale and long-term
observational data
14.45-15.15 Jukka Forsman Using the past in predicting the future in birds’ nest-site selection 15.15-15.45 Arja Kaitala Dispersal traits and deer ked invasions in Fennoscandia
15.45-15.50 Kai Lindström Closing words
