Ilkka Hanski

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Ilkka Aulis Hanski (born February 14, 1953 in Lempäälä ; † May 10, 2016 ) was a Finnish ecologist and evolutionary biologist . He is particularly known for his pioneering work in the field of metapopulations .

Life

Hanski obtained a Masters in Zoology from Helsinki University in 1976 , and a Ph.D. in 1979. also in zoology from Oxford University . In 1979 he went to Helsinki University as a research assistant, in 1988 he was given a full professorship in animal ecology , and since 1996 he has held a research professorship at the Academy of Finland .

Hanski was married and had three children. He died of cancer on May 10, 2016.

Act

Plantain butterfly

Hanski is best known for his work on plantain moth populations in southern Finland, on which he - building on the work of Richard Levins - was able to present basic principles of population biology and further develop the concept of metapopulations . He dealt with mechanisms that influence local extinction and global survival of species - in particular habitat fragmentation - and the mathematical description of these mechanisms.

Further work by Hanski dealt with the adaptive radiation of dung beetles in Madagascar or the population cycles of lemmings and voles . More recent work dealt with the genetic basis of metapopulations.

Hanski wrote more than 250 papers, five of which were among the ten most cited papers on the biology of metapopulations in 2010 ; Hanski himself was the fourth most cited ecologist.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • I. Hanski (Ed.): Ecological significance of spatial and temporal variability. Annales Zoologici Fennici, Helsinki, 1988
  • I. Hanski, E. Pankakoski (Eds.): Population biology of Eurasian shrews. Annales Zoologici Fennici, Helsinki, 1989.
  • I. Hanski, Y. Cambefort (Ed.): Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1991.
  • M. Gilpin, I. Hanski (Ed.): Metapopulation Dynamics. Academic Press, London, 1991;
  • I. Hanski, M. Gilpin (eds.): Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics and Evolution. Academic Press, San Diego, 1997.
  • Metapopulation Ecology Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-854066-3
Essays

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kaleva.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/akatemiaprofessori-ilkka-hanski-on-kuollut/727307/
  2. ^ A b Professor Ilkka Hanski wins the European Latsis Prize 2010 for Biodiversity at the European Science Foundation (esf.org); Retrieved January 17, 2013
  3. ^ Ilkka Hanski at the Academia Europaea (ae-info.org); Retrieved January 18, 2013
  4. ↑ International Balzan Prize Foundation. In: balzan.org. November 15, 2000, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  5. ^ Ilkka Hanski at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (kva.se); Retrieved January 18, 2013
  6. ↑ Ilkka Hanski's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 18, 2013.
  7. ^ List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007 (PDF; 1.1 MB) at the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved January 17, 2013
  8. ↑ Book of Menbers 1780 – present (PDF; 1.6 MB) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved January 17, 2012
  9. ↑ The Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2011 at crafoordprize.de; Retrieved January 17, 2013
  10. ↑ EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary. Press release from May 8, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)
personal data
SURNAME Hanski, Ilkka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanski, Ilkka Aulis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ecologist and evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Lempäälä
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2016