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Heikki Roininen is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland and focuses research on areas within agricultural and biological sciences, psychology, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans various interdisciplinary subfields including insect science, social psychology, atmospheric science, genetics, and ecological modeling.

The research topics covered by Roininen include insect utilization and effects, animal and plant science education, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, climate change and permafrost, species distribution and climate change, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and tree-ring climate responses.

Roininen has co-authored papers with several researchers, frequently collaborating with Anu Valtonen, Sille Holm, Geoffrey M. Malinga, Philip Nyeko, and Jaana Sorjonen.

Several publications are associated with Roininen, appearing in journals such as Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, Journal of Economic Entomology, Journal of Ecology, and Authorea. Notable recent papers include:

  • Performance of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) on by-product diets in small-scale production, 2021, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
  • Growth performance and feed conversion of Ruspolia differens on plant-based by-product diets, 2020, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
  • Performance of the African edible bush-cricket, Ruspolia differens, on single and mixed diets containing inflorescences of their host plant species, 2020, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
  • Growth and Reproductive Performance of Edible Grasshopper (Ruspolia differens) on Different Artificial Diets, 2022, Journal of Economic Entomology
  • Dynamic effects of insect herbivory and climate on tundra shrub growth: Roles of browsing and ramet age, 2020, Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Effects of elevated CO2 and temperature on plant growth and herbivore defensive chemistry

    T. O. Veteli;K. Kuokkanen;R. Julkunen-Tiitto;H. Roininen

  • Why does the bud-galling sawfly, Euura mucronata, attack long shoots?

    P. W. Price;P. W. Price;H. Roíninen;J. Tahvanainen

  • Effects of reindeer browsing on tundra willow and its associated insect herbivores

    Michael Den Herder;Risto Virtanen;Heikki Roininen

  • Plant age and attack by the bud galler, Euura mucronata

    P. W. Price;P. W. Price;H. Roininen;J. Tahvanainen

  • EVOLUTION OF GALL MORPHOLOGY AND HOST‐PLANT RELATIONSHIPS IN WILLOW‐FEEDING SAWFLIES (HYMENOPTERA: TENTHREDINIDAE)

    Tommi Nyman;Alex Widmer;Heikki Roininen

  • Host Selection and Larval Performance of Two Willow-Feeding Sawflies

    Heikki Roininen;Jorma Tahvanainen

  • Terrestrial trophic dynamics in the Canadian Arctic

    Charles J Krebs;Kjell Danell;Anders Angerbjörn;Jep Agrell

  • Tropical phenology: bi-annual rhythms and interannual variation in an Afrotropical butterfly assemblage

    Anu Valtonen;Freerk Molleman;Colin A. Chapman;James R. Carey

  • HOST-PLANT PREFERENCE OF AN INSECT HERBIVORE MEDIATED BY UV-B AND CO2 IN RELATION TO PLANT SECONDARY METABOLITES

    Anu Lavola;Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto;Heikki Roininen;Pedro Aphalo

  • Phenolic glucosides as feeding cues for willow‐feeding leaf beetles

    J. Kolehmainen;R. Julkunen-Tiitto;H. Roininen;J. Tahvanainen

  • The influence of windthrow area and timber characteristics on colonization of wind-felled spruces by Ips typographus (L.)

    Miikka Eriksson;Miikka Eriksson;Antti Pouttu;Heikki Roininen

  • Response of galling insects to natural browsing by mammals in Alaska

    Heikki Roininen;Peter W. Price;John P. Bryant

  • Importance of phenolic glucosides in host selection of shoot galling sawfly,Euura amerinae, onSalix pentandra

    Jari Kolehmainen;Heikki Roininen;Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto;Jorma Tahvanainen

  • Oviposition Stimulant for a Gall-Inducing Sawfly, Euura lasiolepis, on Willow is a Phenolic Glucoside

    Heikki Roininen;Peter W. Price;Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto;Jorma Tahvanainen

  • Reindeer herbivory reduces willow growth and grouse forage in a forest-tundra ecotone

    Michael den Herder;Risto Virtanen;Heikki Roininen

  • Chapter 16 – Working toward Theory on Galling Sawfly Population Dynamics

    Peter W. Price;Timothy P. Craig;Heikki Roininen

  • The effects of reindeer grazing on the composition and species richness of vegetation in forest–tundra ecotone

    Anu Pajunen;Risto Virtanen;Heikki Roininen

  • Chlorogenic acid as an antiherbivore defence of willows against leaf beetles

    Arsi Ikonen;Jorma Tahvanainen;Heikki Roininen

  • THE EVOLUTION OF HOST-PLANT USE AND SEQUESTRATION IN THE LEAF BEETLE GENUS PHRATORA (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE).

    Alfred Kopf;Alfred Kopf;Nathan E. Rank;Nathan E. Rank;Heikki Roininen;Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto

  • Long-term species loss and homogenization of moth communities in Central Europe

    Anu Valtonen;Anu Valtonen;Anikó Hirka;Levente Szőcs;Matthew P. Ayres

  • The plant-based by-product diets for the mass-rearing of Acheta domesticus and Gryllus bimaculatus.

    Jaana M. Sorjonen;Anu Valtonen;Elina Hirvisalo;Maija Karhapää

  • HOST PREFERENCE AND ALLOZYME DIFFERENTIATION IN SHOOT GALLING SAWFLY, EUURA ATRA.

    Heikki Roininen;Jukka Vuorinen;Jorma Tahvanainen;Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorma Tahvanainen
Jorma Tahvanainen University of Eastern Finland
Peter W. Price
Peter W. Price Northern Arizona University
Matti Rousi
Matti Rousi Finnish Forest Research Institute
Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto
Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto University of Eastern Finland
Risto Virtanen
Risto Virtanen University of Oulu
Joakim Hjältén
Joakim Hjältén Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Elina Oksanen
Elina Oksanen University of Eastern Finland
Pekka Niemelä
Pekka Niemelä University of Turku
Takayuki Ohgushi
Takayuki Ohgushi Kyoto University
Kjell Danell
Kjell Danell Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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