Pakolaisseminaari of Ecology 2011 in Joensuu

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1 Pakolaisseminaari of Ecology 2011 in Joensuu We are happy to invite you November to Joensuu campus of the UEF, which lies in the city of Joensuu in the Northern Carelia, in the Eastern Finland, ca. 70 km west from the border of Russia. Pakolaisseminaari was established in early 1980 s. The original idea of the seminar was to bring Finnish ecologists together and especially keep contact among ecologist who had worked in Joensuu during their career. Many of the earlier seminars have also celebrated 50 years anniversaries of Finnish ecologists. The topics of the seminar cover many aspects of ecology including basic ecology, evolutionary ecology and behavioral ecology. Traditionally, distinguished ecologists abroad are invited to seminar as keynote speakers. We have both the Tuesday and Wednesday for presentations and discussion. Traditional Esiseminaari will be held on Monday at Pub Palaveri, starting from There are several reasonably priced housing options in the downtown Joensuu. Registrations by to raine.kortet@uef.fi. On behalf of the Pakolaisseminaari of Ecology 2011 organizing committee. Raine, Hannu, Pekka & Heikki Welcome!

2 Participant list as Juuli Alm (Joensuu) Jani Anttila (Helsinki) Miina Auttila (Joensuu) Niels Dingemanse (Seewiesen; Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) Merja Elo (Jyväskylä) Richard Field (The University of Nottingham) Jukka Forsman (Oulu) Marko Haapakoski (Jyväskylä) Heikki Hirvonen (Helsinki) Hannu Huuskonen (Joensuu) Matti Janhunen (Jokioinen) Arja Kaitala (Oulu) Sirpa Kaunisto (Joensuu) Raine Kortet (Joensuu) Jukka Kekäläinen (Joensuu) Erkki Korpimäki (Turku) Jari Kouki (Joensuu) Janne Kotiaho (Jyväskylä) Mervi Kunnasranta (Joensuu) Jouni Laakso (Helsinki) Yi-Te Lai (Joensuu) Adriano Mazziotta (Jyväskylä) Jenni Miettunen (Joensuu) Mikko Mönkkönen (Jyväskylä) Pekka Niemelä (Turku) Petri Niemelä (Oulu/Joensuu) Marja Niemi (Joensuu) Hannu Pöysä (Joensuu) Markus Rantala (Turku) Lasse Ruokolainen (Helsinki) Heikki Simola (Joensuu) Saana Sipari (Jyväskylä) Ilkka Sirkka (Joensuu) Janne Sundell (Lammi) Jouni Taskinen (Jyväskylä) Raisa Tiilikainen (Joensuu) Anssi Vainikka (Oulu/Joensuu) Anu Valtonen (Joensuu) Mia Valtonen (Joensuu) Petteri Vihervaara (Joensuu) Hannu Ylönen (Jyväskylä/Konnevesi)

3 Joensuu campus of the UEF

4 Meeting Schedule November 7 : Monday 18:00 - Esiseminaari at Pub palaveri (Siltakatu 4) November 8 : Tuesday Pekka Niemelä & Raine Kortet: Opening the symposium; Pakolaisseminaari from early days to these days N100 Theme One hundred years of Finnish conservation biology Jari Kouki: Ecology in forest conservation N Mikko Mönkkönen: Avian biogeography: (some) patterns, processes and conservation implications N Lunch Session Conservation biology Plenary Richard Field: Plenary TBA N Short break

5 Merja Elo: Birds and energy in boreal forest - a macroecological perspective N Janne Kotiaho: Peerage of science N100 Session Various questions on mammals & birds Erkki Korpimäki Living in a variable environment: kestrels, Tengmalm s owls and the vole cycle N Coffee break (Ravintola Aura, Yliopistokatu 2) Janne Sundell Seasonal life history traits of voles with different origin in common environment N Saana Sipari Onset of spring and reproductive strategies in bank voles (Myodes glareolus) N Marko Haapakoski Predation risk and food: opposite effects on overwintering survival and onset of breeding in a boreal rodent N Jukka Forsman Learning what to do and what not to do from competitors N100 Session Co-evolution, virulence & parasitism stuff Jani Anttila: Bacterial diversity and opportunistic pathogens N Jouni Taskinen: Manipulation of fish host behaviour by Diplostomum spathaceum parasite F100

6 Dinner at Vanha Jokela (Torikatu 26) Informal discussions & social talk November 9 : Wednesday Plenary Niels Dingemanse Evolutionary and ecological approaches towards animal personality variation N Short break Session Variation in animal behaviour Anssi Vainikka: Evolutionarily stable boldness and emergence of behavioural consistency in relation to the state-dependent costs of parasitism and predation N Lunch Petri Niemelä: Effect of larval density on the behavioural development and life-history in a field cricket F Heikki Hirvonen: Heritable variation in innate and learned adaptive responses to predators hunting tactics N100

7 Session Co-evolution, virulence & parasitism stuff Yi-Te Lai Sexual selection and sexual signalling in common minnow Phoxinus phoxinus, and the potential influences from nematoid parasite Philometra ovata F Short break Jouni Laakso: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of opportunistic pathogens N Coffee break (Ravintola Aura, Yliopistokatu 2) Session Mate choice, sexual selection & other miscellanous stuff Markus Rantala: Role of parasites and pathogens in human sexual selection F Jukka Kekäläinen: Sexual selection and maintenance of variation in sexual ornamentation F Matti Janhunen: JALO breeding program for farmed rainbow trout F Short break Lasse Ruokolainen: Harvesting creates ecological traps: Consequences of invisible mortality risks in predator-prey metacommunities F100 Session Conservation biology Mervi Kunnasranta: Conservation biology of Lake Saimaa ringed seal F100

8 Pekka Niemelä & Raine Kortet: Concluding remarks & closing the Symposium F100 Travel back home: e.g. train to Helsinki 18.17, arrival or train to Jyväskylä 18.27, arrival