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5031
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73

Overview

Markku Orell is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a significant body of work in Ecology, encompassing aspects of Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications in notable journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include Forest Ecology and Management, Journal of Animal Ecology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other venues include Nature Communications and Oecologia.

Markku Orell's main research topics cover a range of ecological and biological studies. These topics are:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Orell and their colleagues include:

  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Climate change-driven elevational changes among boreal nocturnal moths, 2020, Oecologia
  • Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole-nesting passerines, 2022, Ecology
  • The great tit HapMap project: A continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird, 2024, Molecular Ecology Resources

Collaboration with frequent co-authors is a notable feature of Orell's work. Regular co-authors include Seppo Rytkönen, Emma Vatka, Frank Adriaensen, Anne Charmantier, and Erik Matthysen. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial number of joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Glacial history and colonization of Europe by the blue tit Parus caeruleus

    Laura Kvist;Keijo Viiri;Paula C. Dias;Seppo Rytkönen

  • Variable responses to large-scale climate change in European Parus populations

    ME Visser;F Adriaensen;JH Van Balen;J Blondel

  • The design of artificial nestboxes for the study of secondary hole-nesting birds: a review of methodological inconsistencies and potential biases

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Frank Adriaensen;Daniel R. Ardia;Alexandr V. Artemyev

  • Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

    Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  • Paternal Leakage of Mitochondrial DNA in the Great Tit (Parus major)

    Laura Kvist;Jochen Martens;Alexander A. Nazarenko;Markku Orell

  • Role of heredity in egg size variation in the Great Tit Parus major and the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

    Mikko Ojanen;Markku Orell;Risto A. Viiisiinen

  • Evolution and genetic structure of the great tit (Parus major) complex

    Laura Kvist;Jochen Martens;Hiroyoshi Higuchi;Alexander A. Nazarenko

  • Prior residency as a key determinant of social dominance in the willow tit (Parus montanus)

    Kari Koivula;Kimmo Lahti;Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkönen

  • TIME AND FOOD DEPENDENCE IN WILLOW TIT WINTER SURVIVAL

    Kimmo Lahti;Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkönen;Kari Koivula

  • Do subordinates expose themselves to predation? Field experiments on feeding site selection by Willow Tits

    Kari Koivula;Kimmo Lahti;Seppo Rytkonen;Markku Orell

  • From feces to data : A metabarcoding method for analyzing consumed and available prey in a bird-insect food web

    Seppo Rytkönen;Eero J. Vesterinen;Eero J. Vesterinen;Coen Westerduin;Tiina Leviäkangas

  • Population fluctuations and survival of Great Tits Par us major dependent on food supplied by man in winter

    Markku Orell

  • Causes of divorce in the monogamous willow tit, Parus montanus, and consequences for reproductive success

    Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkönen;Kari Koivula

  • Warming climate advances breeding and improves synchrony of food demand and food availability in a boreal passerine

    Emma Vatka;Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkönen

  • Great tits, Parus major, lay too many eggs: experimental evidence in mid-boreal habitats

    Seppo Rytkönen;Markku Orell

  • Delayed cost of reproduction and senescence in the willow tit Parus montanus

    Markku Orell;Eduardo J. Belda

  • The colonization history and present-day population structure of the European great tit (Parus major major)

    Laura Kvist;Minna Ruokonen;Jaakko Lumme;Markku Orell

  • Patterns of per-brood and per-offspring provisioning efforts in the Willow Tit Parus montanus

    Seppo Rytkonen;Kari Koivula;Markku Orell

  • Social influences on food caching in willow tits: a field experiment

    Kimmo Lahti;Kari Koivula;Seppo Rytkönen;Tima Mustonen

  • Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool

    Evi Van den Steen;Rianne Pinxten;Veerle L.B. Jaspers;Adrian Covaci

Frequent Co-Authors

Seppo Rytkönen
Seppo Rytkönen University of Oulu
Kari Koivula
Kari Koivula University of Oulu
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia
Frank Adriaensen
Frank Adriaensen University of Antwerp
Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
János Török
János Török Eötvös Loránd University
Mariusz Cichoń
Mariusz Cichoń Jagiellonian University

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