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Dec 5, 2024 | 
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kati Suominen |Finnish Museum |Niclas R. Fritzén |Mari Aas Fjelldal
Introduction Organisms inhabiting high latitudes confront challenges associated with pronounced seasonality, featuring long and cold winters with limited food resources, contrasted by brief summer seasons. These provide a constrained timeframe for reproductive activities and preparations for the ensuing prolonged and harsh winter.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Finnish Museum |Edward Kluen |Purabi Deshpande |Niko Johansson
1 Introduction Cities are hotspots for the introduction of alien flora (Pysek 1998), either accidentally or intentionally through gardening and horticulture (Seebens et al. 2017). However, whether these species spread into surrounding natural habitats depends on their dispersal agents—if there are limited opportunities for flora to disperse from urban areas, then the risk of invasion is low (von der Lippe and Kowarik 2008).
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Sergei Tarasov |Josef C. Uyeda |Finnish Museum
AbstractA recent study (Louca and Pennell, 2020) spotlighted the issue of model congruence, or asymptotic unidentifiability, in time-dependent birth-death models used for reconstructing species diversification histories on phylogenetic trees. The present work investigates this issue in state-dependent speciation and extinction (SSE) models, commonly used to study trait-dependent diversification.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Cody Howard |Henry Väre |Finnish Museum |Peris Kamau
Aim Ferns are globally distributed, yet the number of studies examining the historical evolution of African taxa is relatively low. Investigation of the evolution of African fern diversity is critical in order to understand patterns and processes that have global relevance (e.g., the pantropical diversity disparity [PDD] pattern).
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
journals.plos.org | Matti Viluksela |Finnish Museum |Pertti Saurola |Juhani Koivusaari
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article Citation: Viluksela M, Saurola P, Koivusaari J, Finnlund M, Bignert A, Airaksinen R, et al. (2024) Temporal trends (1972–2017) and spatial differences of persistent halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons in osprey eggs in Finland. PLoS ONE 19(9): e0308227.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com | Finnish Museum |BatLab Finland |German Observatory |Dept. Botany
Samples for DNA extraction were obtained from existing collections of the authors. No bats were sampled as a part of the present study. Eleven out of the twelve species sampled represent the main lineages of Myotis from the Palearctic clade (M. bechsteinii, M. daubentonii, M. brandtii, M. mystacinus, M. dasycneme, M. frater, M. pequinus, M. petax, M. myotis, M. nattereri, M. ikonnikovi) with distributions ranging from the Iberian Peninsula to Japan (See Fig. 1).
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexander N Sennikov |Finnish Museum
Introduction The taxonomy of Pilosella Hill is highly complicated by a notorious ability of nearly all species of this small genus to produce interspecific hybrids, which frequently appear in nature and may locally prevail over the parental taxa (Fehrer et al. 2007, Urfus et al. 2014, Krahulcová et al. 2018).
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
journals.plos.org | Pedro Cardoso |Finnish Museum |Miquel A. Arnedo |Universitat de Barcelona
DiscussionHere we propose a method to optimize and standardize the inventory and monitoring of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity, and further introduce the definitions of α-sampling and β-sampling. We demonstrate the method using Iberian spiders and Amazonian bats as case-studies. This same method is applicable to any taxon at any region, as long as sampling can be done using a combination of methods.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Finnish Museum |Charlotte Møller |Aino Kotilainen |Susanna Koivusaari
1 INTRODUCTION The rapid rate of climate change may often outpace the ability of species to evolve genetically or disperse to new areas (Jump & Peñuelas, 2005; Radchuk et al., 2019). Therefore, phenotypic plasticity, which allows individuals to adapt to prevailing conditions, may be crucial for species to survive in a warming world.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Finnish Museum |Heini Kujala |Ricardo S. Bovendorp |Ana Cláudia Malhado
1 INTRODUCTION Anthrophogenic land use and climate change are major threats to global biodiversity (IPCC, 2021; Newbold, 2018). Considering that both are critical planetary boundaries that humanity is heading for overcoming and that climate change is also a core boundary (Lade et al., 2020), it is an ultimatum for biodiversity conservation actions to start now.
