Niina Kiljunen

Research environment: forest, grassland, mountain/fell, peatland, tundra, urban

Taxonomic group of interest: arachnids, insects

Field of research: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, ecosystem and species monitoring, evolutionary ecology, phylogeny, taxonomy

Entomologist (and Arachnologist) interested among others in Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Diptera and Hymenoptera, currently focusing on studying dark taxa, the unknown part of our planet's biodiversity by using Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) as a model group. Expertise in DNA barcoding for species-level identification.

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