From interspecific associations and their consequences to applying and developing community biomonitoring methods
Mira Kajanus, Bioenv Department, University of Jyväskylä
Teaser:
In my talk I will run you through the different topics of my research so far. First, I will briefly focus on my PhD work, where I studied the ecological and evolutionary consequences of species associations. In the work I used the Finnish bird community as the study system and implemented Joint Species Distribution Models to investigate patterns in species distributions. Then, I will talk about my current work, which is centered on evaluating and refining monitoring methods to measure biodiversity across various taxonomic groups on a national scale in Finland, including advanced automated high-throughput (DNA-, audio- and image) techniques to assess the diversity of fungi, birds, bats, mammals and invertebrates.
Biosketch:
I am a post doc in JYU, in the Predictive Community Ecology Group (PredCom) led by Prof. Otso Ovaskainen and Academy Research Fellow Nerea Abrego. I defended my PhD at the University of Oulu in 2022. Currently I am working in a project funded by the Finnish Ministry of Environment until the end of 2024, after which I will still stay in JYU and start working in an EU Horizon funded project “Safeguarding biodiversity and carbon-rich forest networks in Europe ~ SafeNet”.
