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Toomas Tammaru

Toomas Tammaru

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Ecology and Evolution

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41
Citations
8548
World Ranking
5742
National Ranking
15

Overview

Toomas Tammaru is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia and has conducted extensive research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work encompasses various subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Genetics; Insect Science; Nature and Landscape Conservation; and Ecological Modeling. The main research topics covered include Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control, and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Toomas Tammaru's recent publications include:

  • Why do males emerge before females? Sexual size dimorphism drives sexual bimaturism in insects, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Comparative analysis of larval growth in Lepidoptera reveals instar-level constraints, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography and diversification patterns of a diverse group of moths (Geometridae: Boarmiini), 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Degenerated, Undifferentiated, Rearranged, Lost: High Variability of Sex Chromosomes in Geometridae (Lepidoptera) Identified by Sex Chromatin, 2021, Cells
  • Conserving woodland butterflies in managed forests: Both local and landscape factors matter, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Toomas Tammaru include:

  • Erki Õunap
  • Tiit Teder
  • Ants Kaasik
  • Robert Β. Davis
  • Stênio Ítalo Araújo Foerster

Frequent publication venues for the scientist's work feature:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • European Journal of Entomology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Best Publications

  • Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming

    Camille Parmesan;Nils Ryrholm;Constantí Stefanescu;Jane K. Hill

  • Sexual size dimorphism within species increases with body size in insects

    Tiit Teder;Toomas Tammaru

  • Intraspecific Variability in Number of Larval Instars in Insects

    Toomas Esperk;Toomas Tammaru;Sören Nylin

  • Causes of cyclicity of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): grandiose theory and tedious practice

    Kai Ruohomäki;Miia Tanhuanpää;Matthew P. Ayres;Pekka Kaitaniemi

  • Capital breeders and income breeders among Lepidoptera - consequences to population dynamics.

    Toomas Tammaru;Erkki Haukioja

  • Realized fecundity in Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): relation to body size and consequences to population dynamics

    Toomas Tammaru;Pekka Kaitaniemi;Kai Ruohomäki

  • No evidence for costs of being large in females of Orgyia spp. (Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae): larger is always better.

    Toomas Tammaru;Toomas Esperk;Ignacio Castellanos

  • Achieving high sexual size dimorphism in insects: females add instars

    Toomas Esperk;Toomas Tammaru;Sören Nylin;Tiit Teder

  • Determination of adult size in a folivorous moth: constraints at instar level?

    Toomas Tammaru

  • Size-dependent predation risk in tree-feeding insects with different colouration strategies: a field experiment.

    Triinu Remmel;Toomas Tammaru

  • Quantifying predation on folivorous insect larvae: the perspective of life‐history evolution

    Triinu Remmel;John Davison;Toomas Tammaru

  • Size dependent predation risk in cryptic and conspicuous insects

    Triinu Mänd;Toomas Tammaru;Johanna Mappes

  • Oviposition Choices of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in Relation to Its Eruptive Population Dynamics

    Toomas Tammaru;Pekka Kaitaniemi;Kai Ruohomäki

  • Growth allometry of immature insects: larvae do not grow exponentially

    Toomas Tammaru;Toomas Esperk

  • Reproductive decisions are sensitive to cues of life expectancy: the case of a moth

    Juhan Javoiš;Toomas Tammaru

  • Cascading effects of variation in plant vigour on the relative performance of insect herbivores and their parasitoids

    Tiit Teder;Toomas Tammaru

  • The evolution of female flightlessness among Ennominae of the Holarctic forest zone (Lepidoptera, Geometridae).

    Niklas Wahlberg;Niina Snäll;Jaan Viidalepp;Kai Ruohomäki

  • Allozyme variability in central, peripheral and isolated populations of the scarce heath (Coenonympha hero: Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae): Implications for conservation

    Anna Cassel;Toomas Tammaru

  • Old mountain birches at high altitudes are prone to outbreaks of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

    Kai Ruohomäki;Tarmo Virtanen;Pekka Kaitaniemi;Toomas Tammaru

  • Allee effects can both conserve and create spatial heterogeneity in population densities.

    M. Gyllenberg;J. Hemminki;T. Tammaru

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Ruohomäki
Kai Ruohomäki University of Turku
Niklas Wahlberg
Niklas Wahlberg Lund University
Erkki Haukioja
Erkki Haukioja University of Turku
Karl Gotthard
Karl Gotthard Stockholm University
Sören Nylin
Sören Nylin Stockholm University
Constantí Stefanescu
Constantí Stefanescu Autonomous University of Barcelona
Johanna Mappes
Johanna Mappes University of Helsinki
Martin Konvicka
Martin Konvicka Czech Academy of Sciences
Heikki Roininen
Heikki Roininen University of Eastern Finland
Kari Saikkonen
Kari Saikkonen University of Turku

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