Ilkka Hanski
Ilkka Hanski Aulis ( born February 14, 1953 in Lempäälä ) is a Finnish ecologist and evolutionary biologist. He is considered a leader in the field of meta-populations.
Life
Hanski acquired in 1976 at the University of Helsinki, a Masters in Zoology, 1979, Ph.D. also in zoology at Oxford University. In 1979 he went as a research assistant at the University of Helsinki, 1988 he was a full professor of Animal Ecology, since 1996, he has a research professorship at the Academy of Finland.
Hanski is married and has three children.
Work
Hanski is mainly known for his work on populations of the Glanville fritillary butterfly in southern Finland, where he - building on the work of Richard Levins - are fundamental principles of population biology and was able to develop the concept of meta-populations. He deals with mechanisms that affect the local extinction and global survival of species - especially the Habitat fragmentation - and the mathematical description of these mechanisms.
Further work Hanskis deal with the adaptive radiation of dung beetles in Madagascar or the population cycles of lemmings and voles. Current work focuses on the genetic basis of meta-populations.
Hanski has more than 250 written works, five of which were in 2010 among the ten most cited papers of the biology of meta-populations; Hanski himself was the fourth most cited ecologist.
Writings (selection )
- I. Hanski (eds.): Ecological Significance of spatial and temporal variability. Annales Zoologici Fennici, Helsinki, 1988
- I. Hanski, E. Pankakoski (ed.): Population biology of Eurasian shrews. Annales Zoologici Fennici, Helsinki, 1989.
- I. Hanski, Y. Cambefort (ed.): Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1991.
- M. Gilpin, I. Hanski (eds.): metapopulation dynamics. Academic Press, London, 1991;
- I. Hanski, M. Gilpin (eds.): Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics and Evolution. Academic Press, San Diego, 1997.
- Metapopulation ecology Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-854066-3
- I. Hanski, O. Ovaskainen: The metapopulation capacity of a fragmented landscape. In: Nature. Volume 404, Number 6779, April 2000, pp. 755-758, ISSN 0028-0836. doi: 10.1038/35008063. PMID 10,783,887th
- O. Gilg, Hanski I., B. Sittler: Cyclic dynamics in a simple vertebrate predator - prey community. In: Science ( New York, N. Y. ). Volume 302, Number 5646, October 2003, pp. 866-868, ISSN 1095-9203. doi: 10.1126/science.1087509. PMID 14,593,179th
- H. Wirta, H. Viljanen, L. Orsini, O. Montreuil, I. Hanski: Three parallel radiations of Canthonini tion beetles in Madagascar. In: Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. Volume 57, Number 2, November 2010, pp. 710-727, ISSN 1095-9513. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.013. PMID 20,732,432th
- I. Hanski, I. Saccheri: Molecular -level variation Affects population growth in a butterfly metapopulation. In: PLoS biology. Volume 4, Number 5, May 2006, pp. e129, ISSN 1545-7885. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040129. PMID 16,620,151th PMC 1.44094 million ( free full text ).
- IA Hanski: Eco - evolutionary spatial dynamics in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Volume 108, Number 35, August 2011, p 14397-14404, ISSN 1091-6490. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1110020108. PMID 21,788,506th PMC 3167532 (Free full text ).
- C. Zheng, O. Ovaskainen, I. Hanski: Modelling single nucleotide effects in phosphoglucose isomerase on dispersal in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: coupling of ecological and evolutionary dynamics. In: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. Volume 364, Number 1523, June 2009, pp. 1519-1532, ISSN 1471-2970. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0005. PMID 19,414,467th PMC 2690501 (Free full text ).
- IA Hanski: Eco - evolutionary spatial dynamics in the Glanville fritillary butterfly. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Volume 108, Number 35, August 2011, p 14397-14404, ISSN 1091-6490. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1110020108. PMID 21,788,506th PMC 3167532 (Free full text ).