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Overview

Ilpo Kojola is affiliated with the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on wildlife ecology, conservation, and genetic diversity, with a strong presence in environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work spans several key areas within wildlife and ecological studies, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies

Research conducted by Ilpo Kojola has been published across various prominent journals and venues, such as:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Wildlife Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • European Journal of Wildlife Research

Several recent papers demonstrate the breadth and focus of their studies. Selected publications include:

  • "European agreements for nature conservation need to explicitly address wolf-dog hybridisation" (2020), Biological Conservation
  • "Does dispersal make the heart grow bolder? Avoidance of anthropogenic habitat elements across wolf life history" (2020), Animal Behaviour
  • "Whole-genome analyses provide no evidence for dog introgression in Fennoscandian wolf populations" (2020), Evolutionary Applications
  • "Ecological correlates of large carnivore depredation on sheep in Europe" (2021), Global Ecology and Conservation
  • "Does artificial feeding affect large carnivore behaviours? The case study of brown bears in a hunted and tourist exploited subpopulation" (2021), Biological Conservation

Ilpo Kojola has collaborated frequently with several researchers, reflecting an interdisciplinary and cooperative approach. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Samuli Heikkinen
  • Jouni Aspi
  • Vincenzo Penteriani
  • Paolo Ciucci
  • Đuro Huber

The main fields of study in their research contributions are Environmental Science with 86 publications and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 29 publications. Subfields of particular focus include Ecology, Genetics, Small Animals, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Best Publications

  • Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes

    Guillaume Chapron;Petra Kaczensky;John D. C. Linnell;Manuela von Arx

  • Rescue of a Severely Bottlenecked Wolf (Canis Lupus) Population by a Single Immigrant

    Carles Vilà;Anna-Karin Sundqvist;Øystein Flagstad;Jennifer Seddon

  • The fear of wolves: A review of wolf attacks on humans

    John Linnell;Reidar Andersen;Zanete Andersone;Linas Balciauskas

  • What is the animal doing? Tools for exploring behavioural structure in animal movements

    Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Chloe Bracis;Maria Delgado;Maria Delgado;Trevor D. Meckley

  • Predation has a greater impact in less productive environments: variation in roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, population density across Europe

    Claudia Melis;Bogumiła Jędrzejewska;Marco Apollonio;Kamil A. Bartoń

  • Brown bear attacks on humans: a worldwide perspective

    G. Bombieri;J. Naves;V. Penteriani;N. Selva

  • Combined use of maternal, paternal and bi-parental genetic markers for the identification of wolf-dog hybrids.

    Carles Vilà;Christopher Walker;Anna-Karin Sundqvist;Oystein Flagstad

  • Human behaviour can trigger large carnivore attacks in developed countries

    Vincenzo Penteriani;Maria del Mar Delgado;Maria del Mar Delgado;Francesco Pinchera;Javier Naves

  • The bioclimatic envelope of the wolverine (Gulo gulo): do climatic constraints limit its geographic distribution?

    Jeffrey Copeland;Kevin McKelvey;Keith Aubry;Arild Landa

  • DISPERSAL IN AN EXPANDING WOLF POPULATION IN FINLAND

    Ilpo Kojola;Jouni Aspi;Antero Hakala;Samuli Heikkinen

  • Genetic diversity, population structure, effective population size and demographic history of the Finnish wolf population

    J. Aspi;E. Roininen;M. Ruokonen;I. Kojola

  • Status, management and distribution of large carnivores – bear, lynx, wolf & wolverine – in Europe

    M. Adamec;F. Álvares;O. Anders;H. Andrén

  • Is the Fear of Wolves Justified? A Fennoscandian Perspective

    John D. C. Linnell;Erling J. Solberg;Scott Brainerd;Olof Liberg

  • Sudden expansion of a single brown bear maternal lineage across northern continental Eurasia after the last ice age: a general demographic model for mammals?

    Marju Korsten;Simon Y. W. Ho;John Davison;Berit Pähn

  • Differentiation and levels of genetic variation in northern European lynx (Lynx lynx) populations revealed by microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA analysis

    Linda Hellborg;Christopher W. Walker;Eli Knispel Rueness;John E. Stacy

  • Consequences of brown bear viewing tourism : A review

    Vincenzo Penteriani;José Vicente López-Bao;Chiara Bettega;Fredrik Dalerum;Fredrik Dalerum;Fredrik Dalerum

  • Multistage, Long-Range Natal Dispersal by a Global Positioning System-Collared Scandinavian Wolf

    Petter Wabakken;Håkan Sand;Ilpo Kojola;Barbara Zimmermann

  • Mitogenetic structure of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in northeastern Europe and a new time frame for the formation of European brown bear lineages.

    Urmas Saarma;Urmas Saarma;Simon Y. W. Ho;Oliver G. Pybus;Marju Kaljuste

  • Foraging conditions, tooth wear and herbivore body reserves: a study of female reindeer

    Ilpo Kojola;Timo Helle;Esa Huhta;Aarno Niva

  • INFLUENCES OF MATERNAL BODY WEIGHT, AGE, AND PARITY ON SEX RATIO IN SEMIDOMESTICATED REINDEER (RANGIFER T. TARANDUS).

    Ilpo Kojola;Eija Eloranta

Frequent Co-Authors

Petter Wabakken
Petter Wabakken Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Håkan Sand
Håkan Sand Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jon E. Swenson
Jon E. Swenson Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Urmas Saarma
Urmas Saarma University of Tartu
María del Mar Delgado
María del Mar Delgado Spanish National Research Council
John D. C. Linnell
John D. C. Linnell Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Ole-Gunnar Støen
Ole-Gunnar Støen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Vincenzo Penteriani
Vincenzo Penteriani Spanish National Research Council
Hans Ellegren
Hans Ellegren Uppsala University
Olof Liberg
Olof Liberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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