Vertebrate Ecology Research Group

Vertebrate Ecology Research Group VERG at University of Turku, Finland:
A coalition of several researchers (PIs) conducting empirical work on wild vertebrate populations

The Vertebrate Ecology Research Group (VERG) is a coalition of several Principal Investigators and their students. The main thrust of the group is empirical work on wild vertebrate populations, especially focusing on long-term studies and large-scale experiments. VERG team members study fundamental questions of ecology and evolution: trade-offs in life history decisions and behaviors, population

dynamics and regulation, and species and trophic interactions. In many studies the effects of environmental changes on the study species play a major role and there often are applied aspects to the research themes.

It has been three years since this last VERG post! Since that day much has happened. The activity in this community went...
20/11/2020

It has been three years since this last VERG post! Since that day much has happened. The activity in this community went to pause due to people moving around, but the work continued. Most of the PhD students at the time have already gotten their PhDs, and the last ones are about to do that soon. Others have moved to senior post docs or scientists, or to professors. Now there would seem to be a momentum to begin fresh again as the community.

Today we had our own tight half-day seminar In Ruissalo Botanical Garden and then some outdoors activity to catch the la...
10/11/2017

Today we had our own tight half-day seminar In Ruissalo Botanical Garden and then some outdoors activity to catch the last rays of sun. Nice :-)

28/09/2017

28.9.2017: Population dynamics of two beaver species in Finland
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Two beaver species are found in Finland: The invasive North American and the native Eurasian beaver. Both were (re-)introduced in the 1930s at several sites in Finland after the last Eurasian beavers were hunted to extinction in the late 19th century. North-American beaver population increased rapid...

28/09/2017

​26.9.2017: Habitat use of coexisting Microtus vole species under competition and predation risk.

Both interspecific competitors and predation risk can modify the habitat use of a species. In nature these factors rarely operate in isolation and thus knowing which factors is more prominent in causing observed habitat use patterns is challenging. In large outdoor enclosures, we studied the habitat...

20.9.2017: Jenni Poutanen interviewed by YLE on white-tailed deer project
28/09/2017

20.9.2017: Jenni Poutanen interviewed by YLE on white-tailed deer project

1930-luvulla Suomeen tuotu valkohäntäpeura viihtyy ja voi hyvin. Kannan määrästä on olemassa enemmän tietoa kuin arvaus, m***a nyt tarvitaan täsmällistä tietoa tärkeästä riistaeläimestä.

28/09/2017

25.9.2017: Insect herbivory may cause changes in the visual properties of leaves and affect the camouflage of herbivores to avian predators. Insectivorous birds are able to detect herbivore-damaged trees

Insectivorous birds are able to detect herbivore-damaged trees even when the herbivores and the damage have been removed from the birds’ sight, indicating that birds use cues related to the systemic responses by plants. However, the mechanism behind this behaviour is not clear, as previous studies s...

28/09/2017

​22.9.2017: Effects of Insect Herbivory on Bilberry Production and Removal of Berries by Frugivores. Most of the seed dispersal is mediated by vertebrates, mainly via birds and mammals.

Most of the seed dispersal is mediated by vertebrates, mainly via birds and mammals. For this reason, fruits should be highly rewarding to these mutualists. However, insect herbivory can cause allocation cost to plants by decreasing resources invested e.g. in fruit yield, as well as ecological costs...

28/09/2017

Järvinen et al..2017. Experimental manipulation of nest height does not support the hypothesis that birds build thicker nests for better thermoregulation of their offspring.

Tuuli-Marjaana Koski after an interesting and successful defense with the opponent Prof. Julia Koricheva and custos Prof...
09/09/2017

Tuuli-Marjaana Koski after an interesting and successful defense with the opponent Prof. Julia Koricheva and custos Prof. Erkki Korpimäki. Congratulations Tuuli!

09/09/2017

Meidän Tuuli väittelee parin tunnin kuluttua/Our Tuuli has her PhD defense today. Exciting!

Turun yliopistossa väittelevän Tuuli-Marjaana Kosken väitöstutkimuksessa selviää, että kasvit reagoivat hyönteistoukkien aiheuttamiin vaurioihin sekä paikallisesti että kokonaisvaltaisesti. Muutokset kasvissa voivat vaikuttaa sitä puolustaviin hyönteistoukkien petoihin tai muihin mutualistisiin eli…

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