Biodiversity Research in Boreal Forests

Some publications

Komonen, A., Schroeder, L.M. & Weslien, J. 2010: Ips typographus population development after a severe storm in a nature reserve in southern Sweden. Journal of Applied Entomology (accepted)

Kotiaho, J.S., Komonen, A. & Päivinen, J. 2009: On the obvious positive relationship between abundance and distribution: a reply to Blackburn and Gaston. Biology Letters 5: 779-780.

Komonen, A. 2009: Riparian forest characteristics and their variation along the lakeshore-upland ecotone. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 24: 515-526.

Komonen, A., Päivinen, J. & Kotiaho, J.S. 2009: Missing the rarest: is the positive interspecific abundance-distribution relationship a truly general macroecological pattern? Biology Letters 5: 492-494.

Hokkanen, P., Kouki, J. & Komonen, A . 2009: Nestedness, SLOSS and conservation network of boreal herb-rich forests. Applied Vegetation Science 12: 295-303.

Mattila, N., Kotiaho, J.S., Kaitala, V., Komonen, A. & Päivinen, J. 2009: Interactions between ecological traits and host plant type explain distribution change in noctuid moths. Conservation Biology 23: 703-709.

Komonen, A., Jonsell, M. & Ranius, T. 2008: Red-listing saproxylic beetles in Fennoscandia: current stage and future perspectives. Endangered Species Research 6: 149-154.

Komonen, A., Niemi, M.E. & Junninen, K. 2008: Lakeside riparian forests support diversity of wood fungi in managed boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 2650-2659.

Mattila, N., Kotiaho, J.S., Kaitala, V. & Komonen, A. 2008. The use of ecological traits in extinction risk assessments: a case study on geometrid moths. Biological Conservation 141: 2322-2328.

Hedin, J., Isacsson, G., Jonsell, M. & Komonen, A. 2008: Forest fuel piles as ecological traps for saproxylic beetles in oak. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 23: 348-357.

Komonen, A. & Kouki, J. 2008: Do restoration fellings in protected forests increase the risk of bark beetle damages in adjacent forests? A case study from Fennoscandian boreal forest Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3736-3743.

Rita, H. & Komonen, A. 2008: Odds ratio: an ecologically sound tool to compare proportions. Annales Zoologici Fennici 45: 66-72.

Komonen, A., Tikkamäki, T., Mattila, N. & Kotiaho, J.S. 2008: Patch size and connectivity influence the population turnover of the threatened chequered blue butterfly (Scolitantides orion, Lycaenidae) in eastern Finland. European Journal of Entomology 105: 131-136.

Komonen, A. 2007: Are we conserving peripheral populations? An analysis of range structure of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Finland. Journal of Insect Conservation 11: 281-285.

Komonen, A. 2006: Local spatial pattern of two specialist beetle species (Ciidae) in the fruiting bodies of Fomitopsis pinicola. Écoscience 13: 372-377.

Mattila, N., Kaitala, V., Komonen, A., Kotiaho, J.S. & Päivinen, J. 2006: Ecological determinants of distribution decline and risk of extinction in moths. Conservation Biology 20: 1161-1168.

Komonen, A. & Kouki, J. 2005: Occurrence and abundance of fungus-dwelling beetles (Ciidae) in boreal forests and clearcuts: habitat associations at two spatial scales. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 28: 137-147.

Komonen, A. 2005: Local spatial pattern in the occurrence of two congeneric wood-decaying fungi in an old-growth boreal forest. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 20: 393-399.

Päivinen, J., Grapputo, A., Kaitala, V., Komonen , A., Kotiaho, J.S., Saarinen, K. & Wahlberg, N. 2005: Negative density–distribution relationship in butterflies. BMC Biology 3:5.

Kotiaho, J.S., Kaitala, V., Komonen, A. & Päivinen, J. 2005: Predicting the risk of extinction from shared ecological characteristics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102: 1963-1967.

Komonen, A., Jonsell, M., Økland, B., Sverdrup-Thygeson, A. & Thunes, K. 2004: Insect assemblage associated with the polypore Fomitopsis pinicola: a comparison across Fennoscandia. Entomologica Fennica 15: 102-112.

Komonen, A., Grapputo, A., Kaitala, V., Kotiaho, J.S. & Päivinen, J. 2004: The role of niche breadth, resource availability and range position on the life history of butterflies. Oikos 105: 41-54.

Komonen, A. 2003: Hotspots of insect diversity in boreal forests. Conservation Biology 17: 976-981.

Komonen, A. 2003: Distribution and abundance of insect fungivores in the fruiting bodies of Fomitopsis pinicola. Annales Zoologici Fennici 40: 495-504.

Komonen, A., Ikävalko, J. & Wang, W. 2003: Diversity patterns of fungivorous insects: comparison between glaciated vs. refugial boreal forests. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1873-1881.

Komonen, M., Komonen, A. & Otgonsuren A. 2003: Daurian pikas (Ochotona daurica) and grassland condition in eastern Mongolia. Journal of Zoology 259: 281-288.

Komonen, A. 2001: Structure of insect communities inhabiting two old-growth forest specialist bracket fungi. Ecological Entomology 26: 63-75.

Komonen, A., Siitonen, J. & Mutanen, M. 2001: Insects inhabiting two old-growth forest polypores. Entomologica Fennica 12: 4-14.

Vilkamaa, P. & Komonen, A. 2001: Redescription and biology of Baeosciara sinuata (Menzel & Mohrig) and classification of Baeosciara Tuomikoski (Diptera: Sciaridae). Entomologica Fennica 12: 46-49.

Komonen, A., Penttilä, R., Lindgren, M. & Hanski, I. 2000: Forest fragmentation truncates a food chain based on an old-growth forest bracket fungus. Oikos 90: 119-126.

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