Otso Ovaskainen

Field of research: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, community ecology, ecosystem and species monitoring, population ecology

Anthropogenic impact under investigation: habitat modifications







Development of statistical approaches that help making more out of ecological data in the fields of metapopulation biology, movement ecology, mathematical methods for individual-based models, population genetics and evolutionary biology, fungal community ecology, statistical community ecology, and probabilistic methods of taxonomic placement. Keywords: statistical ecology, joint species distribution modelling, DNA-, audio- and image-based species identification.

Links of interest:

https://www.jyu.fi/science/en/bioenv/staff-and-administration/staff/ovaskainen-otso

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/statistical-ecology

https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/projects/lifeplan

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