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Esa Koskela is a researcher affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their scholarly activities focus primarily on Environmental Science and Medicine, with particular attention to subfields including Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Parasitology.

The core research topics associated with Esa Koskela encompass:

  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

Esa Koskela has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Oecologia
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent scholarly papers include:

  • Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve, 2020, Oecologia
  • Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils, 2022, Molecular Ecology
  • Rodent host population dynamics drive zoonotic Lyme Borreliosis and Orthohantavirus infections in humans in Northern Europe, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Artificial selection for predatory behaviour results in dietary niche differentiation in an omnivorous mammal, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Evolved high aerobic capacity has context-specific effects on gut microbiota, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Throughout their career, Esa Koskela has collaborated extensively with various researchers. Frequent co-authors include Tapio Mappes, Heikki Henttonen, Otso Huitu, Eva R. Kallio, and Paweł Koteja.

Best Publications

  • Attractiveness of women's body odors over the menstrual cycle: the role of oral contraceptives and receiver sex

    Seppo Kuukasjärvi;C. J. Peter Eriksson;Esa Koskela;Tapio Mappes

  • COST OF REPRODUCTION IN THE WILD: MANIPULATION OF REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN THE BANK VOLE

    Minna Koivula;Esa Koskela;Tapio Mappes;Tuula A. Oksanen

  • Territorial behaviour and reproductive success of bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus females.

    Esa Koskela;Tapio Mappes;Hannu Ylonen

  • Endemic hantavirus infection impairs the winter survival of its rodent host.

    Eva R. Kallio;Eva R. Kallio;Eva R. Kallio;Liina Voutilainen;Olli Vapalahti;Antti Vaheri

  • Cyclic hantavirus epidemics in humans--predicted by rodent host dynamics.

    Eva R. Kallio;Michael Begon;Heikki Henttonen;Esa Koskela

  • Nonlinear effects of climate on boreal rodent dynamics: mild winters do not negate high-amplitude cycles.

    Katri Korpela;Maria del Mar Delgado;Heikki Henttonen;Erkki Korpimäki

  • Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve

    Harry P. Andreassen;Janne Sundell;Fraucke Ecke;Stefan Halle

  • Testosterone‐Mediated Effects on Fitness‐Related Phenotypic Traits and Fitness

    Suzanne C. Mills;Alessandro Grapputo;Ilmari Jokinen;Esa Koskela

  • Maternal antibodies postpone hantavirus infection and enhance individual breeding success

    Eva R Kallio;Antti Poikonen;Antti Vaheri;Olli Vapalahti

  • Quantitative measure of sexual selection with respect to the operational sex ratio: a comparison of selection indices

    Suzanne C Mills;Alessandro Grapputo;Esa Koskela;Tapio Mappes

  • Reproductive Costs and Litter Size in the Bank Vole

    Tapio Mappes;Esa Koskela;Hannu Ylonen

  • Does risk of predation by mammalian predators affect the spacing behaviour of rodents? Two large-scale experiments.

    P Jonsson;E Koskela;T Mappes

  • Limitation of reproductive success by food availability and litter size in the bank vole, Clethrionomys glareolus

    Esa Koskela;Pernilla Jonsson;Tommi Hartikainen;Tapio Mappes

  • Fitness trade-offs mediated by immunosuppression costs in a small mammal.

    Suzanne C. Mills;Suzanne C. Mills;Alessandro Grapputo;Ilmari Jokinen;Esa Koskela

  • Suppressed breeding in the field vole (Microtus agrestis): an adaptation to cyclically fluctuating predation risk

    Esa Koskela;Hannu YlÖnen

  • Offspring growth, survival and reproductive success in the bank vole: a litter size manipulation experiment.

    Esa Koskela

  • Breeding Suppression in Voles under Predation Risk of Small Mustelids: Laboratory or Methodological Artifact?

    Tapio Mappes;Esa Koskela;Hannu Ylönen

  • Negative frequency-dependent selection of sexually antagonistic alleles in Myodes glareolus.

    Mikael Mokkonen;Hanna Kokko;Esa Koskela;Jussi Lehtonen;Jussi Lehtonen

  • Determinants of reproductive success in voles: space use in relation to food and litter size manipulation

    Pernilla Jonsson;Tommi Hartikainen;Esa Koskela;Tapio Mappes

  • Hantavirus infections in fluctuating host populations: the role of maternal antibodies

    Eva R. Kallio;Michael Begon;Heikki Henttonen;Esa Koskela

  • Density-dependent vole damage in silviculture and associated economic losses at a nationwide scale

    Otso Huitu;Nuutti Kiljunen;Erkki Korpimäki;Esa Koskela

Frequent Co-Authors

Tapio Mappes
Tapio Mappes University of Jyväskylä
Suzanne C. Mills
Suzanne C. Mills École Pratique des Hautes Études
Phillip C. Watts
Phillip C. Watts University of Jyväskylä
Heikki Henttonen
Heikki Henttonen Natural Resources Institute Finland
Hannu Ylönen
Hannu Ylönen University of Jyväskylä
Olli Vapalahti
Olli Vapalahti University of Helsinki
Erkki Korpimäki
Erkki Korpimäki University of Turku
Antti Vaheri
Antti Vaheri University of Helsinki
Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Grant R. Singleton
Grant R. Singleton University of Greenwich

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