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91

Overview

Kai Lindström is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University in Finland, focusing on research in Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Physiology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics delve into Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Marine and Fisheries Research, Reproductive Biology and Impacts on Aquatic Species, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Plant and Animal Studies, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kai Lindström include:

  • Post-glacial establishment of locally adapted fish populations over a steep salinity gradient (2020), Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Molecular, behavioural and morphological comparisons of sperm adaptations in a fish with alternative reproductive tactics (2022), Evolutionary Applications
  • Sperm adaptation in relation to salinity in three goby species (2021), Journal of Fish Biology
  • Trade-off between mate choice speed and decision accuracy under mating competition in female sand gobies (2020), Journal of Ethology
  • Potential of Otolith Microchemistry to Distinguish Nursery Areas of Salmon within River Simojoki (2023), Fishes

Frequent coauthors with whom Lindström collaborates include Erica H. Leder, Jonathan N. Havenhand, Charlotta Kvarnemo, Ola Svensson, and Sofie Schöld. The interactions with these colleagues are evident across multiple publications, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Publication venues regularly featuring Lindström's work include the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Applications, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Ethology, and Fishes. Each venue holds one publication affiliated with Lindström, reflecting a diverse dissemination of research outcomes.

Best Publications

  • How cuckoldry can decrease the opportunity for sexual selection: data and theory from a genetic parentage analysis of the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus.

    Adam G. Jones;DeEtte Walker;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Kai Lindström

  • Competition versus cooperation: success of individuals foraging alone and in groups.

    Esa Ranta;Hannu Rita;Kai Lindstrom

  • Water turbidity by algal blooms causes mating system breakdown in a shallow-water fish, the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus

    Marja Järvenpää;Kai Lindström

  • Male-male competition for nest sites in the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus

    Kai Lindström

  • MODE OF SEXUAL SELECTION DETERMINED BY RESOURCE ABUNDANCE IN TWO SAND GOBY POPULATIONS.

    Elisabet Forsgren;Charlotta Kvarnemo;Kai Lindström

  • Environmental deterioration compromises socially enforced signals of male quality in three-spined sticklebacks

    Bob B. M. Wong;Ulrika Candolin;Kai Lindström

  • The effect of resource holding potential, nest size and information about resource quality on the outcome of intruder-owner conflicts in the sand goby

    Kai Lindström

  • Sexual selection for male parental care in the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus

    Kai Lindström;Colette M. St. Mary;Colette M. St. Mary;Christophe Pampoulie

  • Size matters when three-spined sticklebacks go to school

    Esa Ranta;Kai Lindström;Nina Peuhkuri

  • Habitat-specific clutch size and cost of incubation in common eiders, Somateria mollissima

    Mikael Kilpi;Kai Lindström

  • Assortative schooling in three-spined sticklebacks?

    E. Ranta;K. Lindström

  • Male size and parental care in the sand goby, Pomatoschistus minutus

    K. Lindström;M. Hellström

  • Have your cake and eat it too: male sand gobies show more parental care in the presence of female partners

    Christophe Pampoulie;Kai Lindström;Colette M. St. Mary

  • Behaviour and Conservation of Littoral Fishes

    Kai Lindström

  • Power to Hold Sheltering Burrows by Juveniles of the Signal Crayfish, Pasifastacus leniusculus

    Esa Ranta;Kai Lindström

  • Food access, brood size and filial cannibalism in the fantail darter, Etheostoma flabellare

    Kai Lindström;R. Craig Sargent

  • A Quantitative Analysis of the Courtship Acoustic Behaviour and Sound Patterning in Male Sand Goby, Pomatoschistus minutus

    Kai Lindström;Marco Lugli

  • Sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus) males exposed to an endocrine disrupting chemical fail in nest and mate competition.

    Minna Mari Saaristo;John A Craft;Kari K Lehtonen;Kai Lindstrom

  • Effects of resource holding potential and resource value on tenure at nest sites in sand gobies

    Kai Lindström;Christophe Pampoulie

  • Surprising similarity of sneaking rates and genetic mating patterns in two populations of sand goby experiencing disparate sexual selection regimes.

    Adam G. Jones;Deette Walker;Kai Lindström;Charlotta Kvarnemo

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob B. M. Wong
Bob B. M. Wong Monash University
Esa Ranta
Esa Ranta University of Helsinki
Charlotta Kvarnemo
Charlotta Kvarnemo University of Gothenburg
Hanna Kokko
Hanna Kokko Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ronald C. Ydenberg
Ronald C. Ydenberg Simon Fraser University
Johanna Mattila
Johanna Mattila Åbo Akademi University
John C. Avise
John C. Avise University of California, Irvine
Liselotte Sundström
Liselotte Sundström University of Helsinki
J. Christian Franson
J. Christian Franson United States Geological Survey

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