Understanding how species assemble into ecological communities remains a central challenge in ecology. Islands, with their well-defined boundaries and unique evolutionary histories, offer exceptional opportunities to study the processes shaping biodiversity. This research incorporates functional traits of of plants species, plant interaction diversity and community effects on selection of plant traits to understand the effects of a fragmented landscape on distribution of biodiversity at various levels of organization from traits, to species to communities.
Publications
A. Muola, J. F. Scheepens, L. Laukkanen, A. Kalske, P. Mutikainen, Roosa Leimu
Nordic Journal of Botany, 2021
A. Kalske, Roosa Leimu, J. F. Scheepens, P. Mutikainen
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 2016
Plant‐herbivore coevolution in a changing world
Roosa Leimu, A. Muola, L. Laukkanen, A. Kalske, N. Prill, P. Mutikainen
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 2012