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Pekka Punttila is affiliated with the Finnish Environment Institute in Finland and specializes in research that intersects Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research covers a diverse range of main topics, notably Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

Frequent collaborators of Pekka Punttila include Henrik Lindberg, Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa, Heikki Helanterä, Ina Satokangas, and Pierre Nouhaud.

Their published research appears predominantly in the following venues:

  • Metsätieteen aikakauskirja
  • Ecological Processes
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Land Use Policy

Notable recent papers authored by or including Pekka Punttila are:

  • The challenge of combining variable retention and prescribed burning in Finland, 2020, Ecological Processes
  • The many ways to delimit species: hairs, genes and surface chemistry, 2023, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Context sensitive policy instruments: A multi-criteria decision analysis for safeguarding forest habitats in Southwestern Finland, 2020, Land Use Policy
  • Semipermeable species boundaries create opportunities for gene flow and adaptive potential, 2023, Molecular Ecology
  • Metsien monimuotoisuudelle merkittävien rakennepiirteiden muutokset Suomessa vuosina 1980-2015, 2020, Metsätieteen aikakauskirja

Best Publications

  • Coarse woody debris and stand characteristics in mature managed and old-growth boreal mesic forests in southern Finland

    Juha Siitonen;Petri Martikainen;Pekka Punttila;Josef Rauh

  • Species richness of Coleoptera in mature managed and old-growth boreal forests in southern Finland

    Petri Martikainen;Juha Siitonen;Pekka Punttila;Lauri Kaila

  • The importance of small-scale heterogeneity in boreal forests: variation in diversity in forest-floor invertebrates across the succession gradient

    Jari Niemelä;Yrjö Haila;Pekka Punttila

  • Dead trees left in clear-cuts benefit saproxylic Coleoptera adapted to natural disturbances in boreal forest

    Lauri Kaila;Petri Martikainen;Pekka Punttila

  • Leaf litter and the small-scale distribution of carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the boreal forest

    Matti Koivula.;Pekka Punttila.;Yrjö Haila;Jari Niemelä

  • Forestry and the boreal fauna: matching management with natural forest dynamics

    Y. Haila;I. K. Hanski;J. Niemela;P. Punttila

  • Small-scale heterogeneity in the spatial distribution of carabid beetles in the southern Finnish taiga

    Jari Niemela;Yrjo Haila;Eero Halme;Timo Pajunen

  • The distribution of carabid beetles in fragments of old coniferous taiga and adjacent managed forest

    Jari Niemelä;Yrjö Haila;Eero Halme;Tapani Lahti

  • Bark beetles (Coleoptera, Scolytidae) and associated beetle species in mature managed and old-growth boreal forests in southern Finland

    Petri Martikainen;Juha Siitonen;Lauri Kaila;Pekka Punttila

  • Colonisation of clearcut forests by ants in the southern Finnish taiga : a quantitative survey

    Pekka Punttila;Yrjö Haila;Timo Pajunen;Harri Tukia

  • Succession, forest fragmentation, and the distribution of wood ants

    Pekka Punttila

  • Saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) on dead birch trunks decayed by different polypore species

    L. Kaila;P. Partikainen;P. Punttila;E. Yakovlev

  • Ant communities in fragments of old-growth taiga and managed surroundings

    P. Punttila;Y. Haila;J. Niemela;T. Pajunen

  • Ground-dwelling spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in fragmented old forests and surrounding managed forests in southern Finland

    Timo Pajunen;Yrjö Haila;Eero Halme;Jari Niemelà

  • The importance of small-scale heterogeneity in boreal forests: variation in diversity in forest-floor invertebrates across the succession gradient

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  • Beetle diversity in timberline forests: a comparison between old-growth and regeneration areas in Finnish Lapland

    Anna-Liisa Sippola;Juha Siitonen;Pekka Punttila

  • Ant communities in taiga clearcuts: habitat effects and species interactions

    Pekka Punttila;Yijö Haila;Harri Tukia

  • The impact of wood ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on the structure of invertebrate community on mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii)

    Pekka Punttila;Pekka Niemelä;Kari Karhu

  • Facultative polygyny and habitat succession in boreal ants

    Perttu Seppä;Liselotte Sundström;Pekka Punttila

  • Intensity of forest management and bark beetles in non‐epidemic conditions: a comparison between Finnish and Russian Karelia

    P. Martikainen;J. Siitonen;L. Kaila;P. Punttila

  • Organic mound‐building ants: their impact on soil properties in temperate and boreal forests

    M. F. Jurgensen;L. Finér;T. Domisch;J. Kilpeläinen

  • Low-level retention forestry, certification, and biodiversity: case Finland

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Henrik Lindberg;Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa;Petri Keto-Tokoi

  • Ant communities in taiga clearcuts: habitat effects and species

    Pekka Punttila;Yrjoi Haila;Harri Tukia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jari Niemelä
Jari Niemelä University of Helsinki
Liselotte Sundström
Liselotte Sundström University of Helsinki
Lauri Kaila
Lauri Kaila University of Helsinki
Pekka Niemelä
Pekka Niemelä University of Turku
Janne S. Kotiaho
Janne S. Kotiaho University of Jyväskylä
Perttu Seppä
Perttu Seppä University of Helsinki
Leena Finér
Leena Finér Natural Resources Institute Finland
Heikki Helanterä
Heikki Helanterä University of Oulu
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Martin F. Jurgensen
Martin F. Jurgensen Michigan Technological University

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