Areas of Expertise

• Marine community ecology
• Benthic ecology
• Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
• Arctic benthic ecology, Interdisciplinary marine science

Research Projects

• Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (www.abo.fi/sos) - an ÅAU internal Centre of Excellence (Center Lead)
• The Sea (www.abo.fi/sea) - an ÅAU research profile (PI, steering group)
• SEA-Quester (www.https://sea-quester.eu) - an EU Horizon Europe project (ÅAU PI, Task lead, WP co-task lead)
• PROTECT BALTIC (https://protectbaltic.eu)- an EU Horizon Europe project (ÅAU PI, Task lead)
• MARBEFES (https://marbefes.eu)- an EU Horizon Europe project (ÅAU PI, sub-task lead)
• Meyer Biodiversity project (ÅAU PI)

Special Methodologies & Techniques

• Trait-based approaches
• Ecological field experiments
• Reflexive learning
• Art-science approaches

Major Funding & International Networks

• Major funding sources: EU Horizon Europe, Research Council of Finland, Åbo Akademi University Foundation
• International networks: ICES WGIAB and WGBENT

Selected Publications

• Diverging benthic trait diversity and drivers across fjord to slope habitats of the high Arctic, Est., Coast. Shelf. Sci., DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2024.109086
• Introduction: towards holistic knowledge of marine environmental changes. in Understanding Marine Changes: Environmental knowledge and methods of research, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
• The Anatomy of Complex Marine Problems: A Case Study of Decision-making on Archipelagic Aquaculture, in Understanding Marine Changes: Environmental knowledge and methods of research, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
• Biological traits approaches in benthic marine ecology: Dead ends and new paths. Ecology and Evolution, e9001
• Four decades of functional community change reveal gradual trends and low interlinkage across trophic groups in a large marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14532

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