Mononen, T., Hardwick, B., Alcobia, S., Barrett, A., Blagoev, G. A., Boyer, S., ... & Ovaskainen, O. (2025). An active ensemble classifier for detecting animal sequences from global camera trap data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Across the world, human (anthropophonic) sounds add to sounds of biological (biophonic) and geophysical (geophonic) origin, with human contributions including both speech and technophony (sounds of technological devices). To characterize society's contribution to the global soundscapes, we used passive acoustic recorders at 139 sites across 6...
Sampling methods that are both scientifically rigorous and ethical are cornerstones of any experimental biological research. Since its introduction 30 years ago, the method of using plasticine prey to quantify predation pressure has become increasingly popular in biology. However, recent studies have questioned the accuracy of the method,...
An increase in biotic interactions towards lower latitudes is one of the most consistent patterns in ecology. Higher temperatures and more stable climatic conditions at low latitudes are thought to enhance biotic interactions, accelerating biological evolution and leading to stronger anti-herbivore defences in plants. However, some studies report...
Research into avian olfactory abilities has so far attracted relatively limited attention due to their complex nature and methodological difficulties. To address the challenges of avian olfactory research, we screened literature spanning four decades by searching publications in the Web of Science and Google Scholar databases. Based on the analyses...
Climate is a major driver of large-scale variability in biodiversity, as a likely result of more intense biotic interactions under warmer conditions. This idea fuelled decades of research on plant-herbivore interactions, but much less is known about higher-level trophic interactions. We addressed this research gap by characterizing both bird...
Trophic interactions between plants, herbivorous arthropods, and their predators are complex and prone to trophic cascades. Understanding these interactions is important, yet they received little attention especially for marine islands. Nevertheless, marine islands offer systems where species interactions are tractable, and their underlying drivers...
Plant-animal interactions and the plant chemical defence systems are a keystone of ecology and of particular interest because they fundamentally shape ecosystem functioning. Despite that, the factors and mechanisms driving the interactions between insectivorous predators and plants, via herbivore-induced plant volatiles—HIPVs remains to be fully...
Insect populations are moving polewards at a rate of 2.7 km year-1
Urbanization is an important driver of the diversity and abundance of tree-associated insect herbivores, but its consequences for insect herbivory are poorly understood. A likely source of variability among studies is the insufficient consideration of intra-urban variability in forest cover. With the help of citizen scientists, we investigated the...
Current climate change is disrupting biotic interactions and eroding biodiversity worldwide. However, species sensitive to aridity, high temperatures, and climate variability might find shelter in microclimatic refuges, such as leaf rolls built by arthropods. To explore how the importance of leaf shelters for terrestrial arthropods changes with...
The tri-trophic interactions between plants, insects, insect predators and parasitoids are often mediated by chemical cues. The attraction to herbivore-induced Plant Volatiles (HIPVs) has been well-documented for arthropod predators and parasitoids, and more recently for insectivorous birds. The attraction to plant volatiles induced by the...