Anne Tolvanen

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Education

Earlier professional appointments

Assistant, Finnish Forest Research Institute 1986-1990
Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Oulu 1989
Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Oulu 1989-1991
Teaching assistant, Department of Biology, University of Oulu, 1989-1998.
Research assistant, The Research Council for the Environmental Sciences, Academy of Finland 1992-1995.
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 1995-1997.
Junior Fellow Researcher, The Research Council for Environment and Natural Resources for the Academy of Finland, 1997-2002.
Assistant professor, Department of Biology 1999-2004. (on leave as of June 2003).

Languages

Fields of research

Ecological research on boreal and arctic vegetation.
Keywords: Climate change, compensatory growth, demography, environmental stress, herbivory, pathogens, population dynamics, recreation ecology, resource allocation patterns.

Teaching experience

Botany field course (boreal species, mire ecology, forest ecology, seashore ecology) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998
Plant ecology course 1989, 1990, 2002
Winter ecology course 1992
Winter ecology and physiology 1995
Ecological methods (lectures and computer simulations on matrix population models) 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002
Plant population biology (lectures and computer simulations) 2002
Plant ecology (literature seminars and laboratory work on e.g. photosynthesis, transpiration, competition, herbivory) 2002
Restoration ecology (lectures on population and ecosystem level restoration, forest and soil restoration, socioeconomic perspectives and sustainability of restoration), University of Lapland 2002

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