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Tero Härkönen is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Genetics.

Härkönen's scholarly work encompasses various topics within marine biology and environmental studies. Key areas of research include:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Their publication record features articles in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Marine Mammal Science
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecosphere
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Molecular Ecology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Härkönen highlight their research scope and collaborations. These include:

  • "An automated work-flow for pinniped surveys: A new tool for monitoring population dynamics", 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Risk for overexploiting a seemingly stable seal population: influence of multiple stressors and hunting", 2021, Ecosphere
  • "Bioaccumulation of PCBs, OCPs and PBDEs in Marine Mammals From West Antarctica", 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Origin and expansion of the world's most widespread pinniped: Range-wide population genomics of the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina)", 2022, Molecular Ecology
  • "Multiple stressors and data deficient populations; a comparative life-history approach sheds new light on the extinction risk of the highly vulnerable Baltic harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)", 2020, Environment International

Härkönen frequently collaborates with several researchers. Their most common co-authors are:

  • Karin C. Hårding
  • Dáire Carroll
  • Anders Galatius
  • Eduardo Infantes
  • Willian T. A. F. Silva

Best Publications

  • The 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus epidemics in European harbour seals.

    Tero Harkonen;Rune Dietz;Peter Reijnders;Jonas Teilmann

  • Global threats to pinnipeds

    Kit M. Kovacs;Alex Aguilar;David Aurioles;Vladimir Burkanov

  • DEVELOPMENT IN THE BALTIC GREY SEAL (HALICHOERUS GRYPUS) AND RINGED SEAL (PHOCA HISPIDA) POPULATIONS DURING THE 20TH CENTURY

    K. C. Harding;T. J. Harkonen

  • Retrospective of the 1988 European seal epizootic

    M.-P. Heide-Jørgensen;T. Harkonen;R. Dietz;P. M. Thompson

  • Age- and sex-specific behaviour in harbour seals Phoca vitulina leads to biased estimates of vital population parameters

    Tero Härkönen;Karin C. Hårding;Sven Gunnar Lunneryd

  • Status of Baltic grey seals: Population assessment and extinction risk

    Karin C Harding;Tero Härkönen;Björn Helander;Olle Karlsson

  • Seasonal and regional variations in the feeding habits of the harbour seal, Phoca vitulina, in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat

    Tero Härkönen

  • Age determination of european harbour seal, Phoca Vitulina L.

    R. Dietz;M.-P. Heide-Jørgensen;T. Härkönen;J. Teilmann

  • Spatial structure of harbour seal populations and the implications thereof

    T Härkönen;K C Harding

  • Comparative life histories of East Atlantic and other harbour seal populations

    T. Härkönen;M.-P. Heide-Jørgensen

  • Mass-dependent energetics and survival in Harbour Seal pups

    Karin C. Harding;M. Fujiwara;Y Axberg;T. Härkönen

  • Competition for the fish - fish extraction from the Baltic Sea by humans, aquatic mammals and birds

    Sture Hansson;Ulf Bergström;Erik Bonsdorff;Tero Härkönen

  • ANTIBODIES TO CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS IN ANTARCTIC SEALS

    J. L. Bengtson;P. Boveng;U. Franzén;P. Have

  • Avian influenza A(H10N7) virus involvement in mass mortality of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in Sweden, March through October 2014

    Siamak Zohari;Aleksija Neimanis;Tero Härkönen;Charlotta Moraeus

  • The 2002 European seal plague: epidemiology and population consequences

    Karin C. Harding;Karin C. Harding;Tero Härkönen;Hal Caswell

  • The harbour seal Phoca vitulina as a predator in the Skagerrak

    T. Härkönen;M.-P. Heide-Jørgensen

  • REBUILDING SEAL STOCKS IN THE KATTEGAT-SKAGERRAK

    Mads‐Peter Heide‐Jørgensen;Tero J. Härkönen

  • Status of grey seals along mainland Europe from the Southwestern Baltic to France

    Tero Härkönen;Sophie Brasseur;Jonas Teilmann;Cecile Vincent

  • Population size and distribution of the Baltic ringed seal ( Phoca hispida botnica )

    Tero Härkönen;Olavi Stenman;Mart Jüssi;Ivar Jüssi

  • Rates of increase in age-structured populations: a lesson from the European harbour seals

    Tero Härkönen;Karin C Harding;Mads-Peter Heide-Jørgensen

  • Epizootiology of the seal disease in the eastern North Sea

    M.-P. Heide-Jørgensen;T. Härkönen

  • Integrating genetic data and population viability analyses for the identification of harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) populations and management units.

    Morten T. Olsen;Morten T. Olsen;Liselotte W. Andersen;Rune Dietz;Jonas Teilmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas Teilmann
Jonas Teilmann Aarhus University
Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen
Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen University of Copenhagen
Rune Dietz
Rune Dietz Aarhus University
Ursula Siebert
Ursula Siebert University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Frank F. Rigét
Frank F. Rigét Aarhus University
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Anders Bignert
Anders Bignert Swedish Museum of Natural History
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Wolfgang Baumgärtner
Wolfgang Baumgärtner University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Erik Bonsdorff
Erik Bonsdorff Åbo Akademi University

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