Ecology and Genetics

Our research tackles biodiversity and its future with modern methods and a wide range of approaches. Our topics range from ecosystem and community level processes to molecular interactions, and our study organisms from microbes to animals and plants.
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10.01.2025

University of Oulu receives 13.3 million euros for research profiling – topics include security, health, and biodiversity

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21.11.2024

Shedding light on dark diversity – Scientists aim for a breakthrough in describing new species

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29.10.2024

"The Lone Wolf" board game increases knowledge of large carnivores and explores youth opinions

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15.10.2024

The study of Chornobyl Red Forest birch trees became possible through a collaboration between Ukrainian, Finnish and European researchers

Projects and actions

Ecology and Genetics Research Unit's Thursday seminars

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Research

Arctic Ecology and Biogeochemistry (AEB) Research Group

Social Evolution Research group

Wildlife genomics research group

Stream Ecology group

Host-microbe interactions

Bee behaviour and cognition group

Ant genomics and Immunity

Ecological change and adaptation research group

PlantBio – Plant Biology and Biotechnology

Why, where and how: understanding the evolution of recombination rate variation

Global Change and Biotic Interaction Ecology

Insect Bioliteracy Group

Genomics of northern adaptation

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