Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Species in the wild are constantly faced with environmental variation, for example, in resource availability. The ability to cope with, react or even adapt to such environmental stress is therefore essential. We are using the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) as a study system to investigate how genetic variation underpinning individual differences in key life-history traits are influenced by environmental conditions during development, life history trade-offs and ecological factors that vary among populations. This system offers a unique opportunity to study these questions, as long term data on the population dynamics and ecologically relevant information are available for more than 500 local-populations of the butterfly, key life-history traits can be assesses for large number of individuals, and the molecular tools are now available for this species to apply genomic research to ecologically relevant traits.
Link to webpage: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/msaastam/
Fields of Science
- 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Clustered warming tolerances and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet
Williamson, J., Lu, M., Camus, M. F., Gregory, R. D., Lane, N., Saastamoinen, M., Maclean, I. M. D., Rocha, J. C., Wilson, R., Bridle, J. R. & Pigot, A. L., 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Biological Sciences. 380, 1917, 16 p., 20230321.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Cross-taxa analysis of long-term data reveals a positive biodiversity-stability relationship with taxon-specific mechanistic underpinning
Rodrigues, A. V., Rissanen, T. K., Jones, M., Huikkonen, I.-M., Huitu, O., Korpimäki, E., Kuussaari, M., Lehikoinen, A., Linden, A., Pietiäinen, H., Pöyry, J., Sihvonen, P., Suuronen, A., Vuorio, K., Saastamoinen, M., Vanhatalo, J. & Laine, A.-L., Apr 2025, In: Ecology Letters. 28, 4, 12 p., e70003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Model-based variance partitioning for statistical ecology
Schulz, T., Saastamoinen, M. & Vanhatalo, J., Feb 2025, In: Ecological Monographs. 95, 1, 24 p., e1646.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Recovering ecological interactions by mining non-target data from whole genome re-sequencing projects
Jones, M., Rastas, P., Chacon-Duque, C., Nair, A., Dileo, M. F., Oostra, V., Saastamoinen, M. & Duplouy, A., 21 Jan 2025, (In preparation) In: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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Demography and environment modulate the effects of genetic diversity on extinction risk in a butterfly metapopulation
DiLeo, M. F., Nair, A., Kardos, M., Husby, A. & Saastamoinen, M., 13 Aug 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 33, 12 p., e2309455121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Biodiversiteettimuutoksen mittarit ja ek
Laine, A.-L. (Project manager), Roslin, T. (Project manager), Saastamoinen, M. (Project manager), Vanhatalo, J. (Project manager), Aulanko, M. (Participant), Conenna, I. (Participant), Davrinche, A. M. (Participant), Ellis, E. (Participant), Ersalman, M. (Participant), Guilbault, E. P. (Participant), Hietanen, N. L. E. (Participant), Härkönen, S.-M. (Participant), Ikonen, S. (Participant), Jones, M. (Participant), Karellos, A. E. (Participant), Kleemola, P. (Participant), Kukkonen, L. K. (Participant), Lindell, V. T. (Participant), Mäkinen, J.A.-E. (Participant), Pipinis Troupakis, M. (Participant), Raittila, U.-M. (Participant), Rissanen, T. K. (Participant), Rodrigues, A. V. (Participant), Shafik, N. M. M. E. (Participant), Singer, L. P. (Participant), Siren, J. (Participant), Vanhala, S. A. E. (Participant), Vanko, M. (Participant), Vuorenpää, V. V. (Participant) & Westergård, V. A. (Participant)
01/01/2023 → 31/12/2027
Project: Foundations (Private Foundations, Non-Profit Foundations, Charitable Trusts)
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WildAP: Wild Animal Phenotyping Infrastructure
Primmer, C. (Project manager), Cabeza, M. (Participant), Duplouy, A. (Participant), Ecke, F. (Participant), Guillaume, F. (Participant), Hancock, G. R. A. (Participant), Mappes, J. (Participant), Saastamoinen, M. (Participant), Thorogood, R. (Participant), Tuominen, E.-P. (Other) & Loehr, J. (Scientific coordinator)
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/01/2023 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research Council of Finland: Research infrastructure
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Luonnon monimuotoisuuden seurannan tutki
Saastamoinen, M. (Project manager), Vanhatalo, J. (Project manager), Davrinche, A. M. (Participant), Ellis, E. (Participant), Guilbault, E. P. (Participant), Horn, M. (Participant), Jones, M. (Participant), Kaurila, K. (Participant), Kukkonen, L. K. (Participant), Numminen, S. (Participant), Rissanen, T. K. (Participant), Shafik, N. M. M. E. (Participant), Singer, L. P. (Participant), Siren, J. (Participant) & Vilkkavaara Cancocak, Y. (Participant)
01/09/2022 → 31/12/2024
Project: Ministry funding
Prizes
Activities
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Monimuotoisuutta tutkimassa
Hardwick, B. (Participant), Antao, L. (Participant), Forsblom, V. (Participant), Hällfors, M. (Participant), Hyttinen, P. (Participant), Itter, M. (Participant), Kaarlejärvi, E. (Participant), Laine, A.-L. (Participant), Opedal, Ø. (Participant), Ovaskainen, O. (Participant), Saastamoinen, M. (Participant), Vanhatalo, J. (Participant), Weigel, B. (Participant) & Roslin, T. (Participant)
Sept 2019Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
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PhD- thesis supervision - Torsti Schultz
Saastamoinen, M. (Supervisor)
2017 → …Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
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Post doctoral Advisor - Anniina Mattila
Saastamoinen, M. (Supervisor)
Jan 2017 → …Activity: Examination types › Post doctoral mentor
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ESEB 2017
Saastamoinen, M. (Member of organizing committee)
2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Member of a PhD thesis committee - Sanja Hakala
Saastamoinen, M. (Supervisor)
2016 → …Activity: Examination types › Member of doctoral thesis committee / follow-up group
Press/Media
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Butterflies, moths have difficulty adjusting to changing climate: Study
12/06/2021 → 14/06/2021
16 items of Media coverage
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Butterflies and moths have difficulty adjusting to a rapidly changing climate
10/06/2021 → 14/06/2021
8 items of Media coverage
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Combination of Phenology and Range Shifts Helps Lepidoptera Species Adapt to Changing Climate
11/06/2021
2 items of Media coverage
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-UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI: The record dry summer of 2018 collapsed the Glanville fritillary butterfly metapopulation
17/07/2020
2 items of Media coverage
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Record dry summer of 2018 collapsed Glanville fritillary butterfly metapopulation
16/07/2020
1 item of Media coverage
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