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Overview

Jukka T. Forsman is affiliated with the Natural Resources Institute Finland in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant work in Ecology, Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Parasitology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics focused on avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, animal vocal communication and behavior, and species distribution and climate change.

Frequent publication venues for Forsman include the Journal of Applied Ecology, Oikos, Journal of Biogeography, Behavioral Ecology, and Oecologia. These journals reflect the ecological and biological emphasis of their research outputs.

Forsman has coauthored extensively with colleagues such as Sami M. Kivelä, Mira H. Kajanus, Jere Tolvanen, Mikko Mönkkönen, and Olli Loukola, demonstrating collaborative work in related research areas.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Forsman include the following:

  • Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils, 2022, Molecular Ecology
  • Effects of multiple targeted repelling measures on the behaviour of individually tracked birds in an area of increasing human-wildlife conflict, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Behavioural traits modulate the use of heterospecific social information for nest site selection: experimental evidence from a wild bird population, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large-scale changes in species associations, 2021, Oikos
  • The roles of temperature, nest predators and information parasites for geographical variation in egg covering behaviour of tits (Paridae), 2020, Journal of Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Social information use is a process across time, space, and ecology, reaching heterospecifics.

    Janne-Tuomas Seppänen;Jukka T. Forsman;Mikko Mönkkönen;Robert L. Thomson

  • Positive fitness consequences of interspecific interaction with a potential competitor

    J. T. Forsman;J.-T. Seppänen;M. Mönkkönen

  • Interspecific Social Learning: Novel Preference Can Be Acquired from a Competing Species

    Janne-Tuomas Seppänen;Jukka T. Forsman

  • Fear factor: prey habitat selection and its consequences in a predation risk landscape

    Robert L. Thomson;Jukka T. Forsman;Francesc Sardà-Palomera;Mikko Mönkkönen

  • Positive interactions between migrant and resident birds: testing the heterospecific attraction hypothesis

    Robert L. Thomson;Jukka T. Forsman;Mikko Mönkkönen

  • Evolution of heterospecific attraction: using other species as cues in habitat selection

    Mikko Mönkkönen;Roger Härdling;Jukka T. Forsman;Juha Tuomi

  • Competitor density cues for habitat quality facilitating habitat selection and investment decisions

    Jukka T. Forsman;Mårten B. Hjernquist;Jenni Taipale;Lars Gustafsson

  • Heterospecific attraction among forest birds: a review

    Mikko Mönkkönen;Jukka T. Forsman

  • The role of climate in limiting European resident bird populations

    Jukka T. Forsman;Mikko Mönkkönen

  • New behavioural trait adopted or rejected by observing heterospecific tutor fitness.

    Janne-Tuomas Seppänen;Jukka T. Forsman;Mikko Mönkkönen;Indrikis Krams

  • Mechanisms and fitness effects of interspecific information use between migrant and resident birds

    Jukka T. Forsman;Robert L. Thomson;Janne-Tuomas Seppänen

  • Responses by breeding birds to heterospecific song and mobbing call playbacks under varying predation risk

    Jukka T. Forsman;Mikko Mönkkönen

  • Mixed-species foraging aggregations and heterospecific attraction in boreal bird communities

    Mikko Mönkkönen;Jukka T. Forsman;Pekka Helle

  • How does variation in the environment and individual cognition explain the existence of consistent behavioral differences

    Petri T Niemelä;Anssi Vainikka;Jukka T Forsman;Olli J Loukola

  • Heterospecific attraction and food resources in migrants' breeding patch selection in northern boreal forest.

    Jukka T. Forsman;Mikko Mönkkönen;Pekka Helle;Jouko Inkeröinen

  • Energy availability, abundance, energy-use and species richness in forest bird communities : a test of the species-energy theory

    Mikko Mönkkönen;Jukka T. Forsman;Folmer Bokma

  • Indirect cues of nest predation risk and avian reproductive decisions.

    Mikko Mönkkönen;Jukka T Forsman;Tiina Kananoja;Hannu Ylönen

  • Landscape characteristics associated with the occurrence of the flying squirrel Pteromys volans in old-growth forests of northern Finland

    Mikko Mönkkönen;Pasi Reunanen;Ari Nikula;Jouko Inkeröinen

  • Predator proximity as a stressor in breeding flycatchers: mass loss, stress protein induction, and elevated provisioning

    Robert L. Thomson;Robert L. Thomson;Gustavo Tomás;Jukka T. Forsman;Juli Broggi

  • The past and the present in decision-making: the use of conspecific and heterospecific cues in nest site selection

    Sami M. Kivelä;Janne-Tuomas Seppänen;Otso Ovaskainen;Blandine Doligez

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia
Blandine Doligez
Blandine Doligez Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Toni Laaksonen
Toni Laaksonen University of Turku
Lars Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson Uppsala University
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Tore Slagsvold
Tore Slagsvold University of Oslo
Erkki Korpimäki
Erkki Korpimäki University of Turku
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu
Seppo Rytkönen
Seppo Rytkönen University of Oulu

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