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Seppo Rytkönen

Seppo Rytkönen

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
33
Citations
6029
World Ranking
1943
National Ranking
15

Overview

Seppo Rytkönen is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong specialization in Ecology. Within this field, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics that characterize their work include:

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

Seppo Rytkönen has published research in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rytkönen 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)
  • Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole-nesting passerines (2022, Ecology)
  • Effects of forest management on the spatial distribution of the willow tit (Poecile montanus) (2022, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Effects of ambient temperatures on evolutionary potential of reproductive timing in boreal passerines (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rytkönen are:

  • Markku Orell
  • Emma Vatka
  • Frank Adriaensen
  • Malcolm D. Burgess
  • Anne Charmantier

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

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

    Kari Koivula;Kimmo Lahti;Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkönen

  • PLUMAGE BRIGHTNESS OF PREY INCREASES PREDATION RISK: AN AMONG-SPECIES COMPARISON

    Esa Huhta;Seppo Rytkönen;Tapio Solonen

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Nest defence in great tits Parus major: support for parental investment theory

    Seppo Rytkönen

  • Determinants of distribution and prevalence of avian malaria in blue tit populations across Europe: separating host and parasite effects

    Szöllosi E;Cichoń M;Eens M;Hasselquist D

  • Does foraging behaviour explain the poor breeding success of great tits Parus major in northern Europe

    Seppo Rytkönen;Indrikis Krams

  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies : The SPI-Birds data hub

    Antica Culina;Frank Adriaensen;Liam D. Bailey;Malcolm D. Burgess;Malcolm D. Burgess

  • Presence of conspecifics, time of day and age affect willow tit food hoarding

    Kimmo Lahti;Seppo Rytkönen

  • Song rate correlates with paternal care and survival in willow tits : Advertisement of male quality ?

    P. Petteri Welling;Seppo O. Rytkonen;Kari T. Koivula;Markku I. Orell

  • Winter survival and breeding success of dominant and subordinate Willow Tits Parus montanus

    Kari Koivula;Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkönen

  • Fatness, sex and dominance ; seasonal and daily body mass changes in Willow Tits

    Kari Koivula;Markku Orell;Seppo Rytkonen;Kimmo Lahti

  • Correlation between two components of parental investment: nest defence intensity and nestling provisioning effort of willow tits.

    Seppo Rytkönen;Markku Orell;Kari Koivula;Mika Soppela

  • Variation in clutch size in relation to nest size in birds

    Anders P. Møller;Frank Adriaensen;Alexandr Artemyev;Jerzy Bańbura

  • Patterns of per-brood and per-offspring provisioning efforts in the

    Seppo Rytkonen;Kari Koivula;Markku Orell

Frequent Co-Authors

Markku Orell
Markku Orell University of Oulu
Kari Koivula
Kari Koivula University of Oulu
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia
Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
János Török
János Török Eötvös Loránd University
Frank Adriaensen
Frank Adriaensen University of Antwerp
Tatjana Krama
Tatjana Krama University of Tartu
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu
Mariusz Cichoń
Mariusz Cichoń Jagiellonian University

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