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Jukka Niemimaa

Tutkija,Luonnonvarakeskus
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Homage to Hersteinsson and Macdonald: climate warming and resource subsidies cause red fox range expansion and Arctic fox decline

…, RA Ims, ST Killengreen, J Niemimaa… - Polar …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change can have a marked effect on the distribution and abundance of some
species, as well as their interspecific interactions. In 1992, before ecological effects of …

Harmonizing circumpolar monitoring of Arctic fox: benefits, opportunities, challenges and recommendations

…, J Lang, I Menyushina, J Mikhnevich, J Niemimaa… - Polar …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has developed pan-Arctic biodiversity
monitoring plans to improve our ability to detect, understand and report on long-term change …

Echinococcus multilocularis on Svalbard: introduction of an intermediate host has enabled the local life-cycle

…, CN Gower, V Haukisalmi, RA Ims, J Niemimaa… - Parasitology, 2001 - cambridge.org
The taeniid tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis is here reported for the first time at the
Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. This new finding is interesting because the …

Carnivore conservation in practice: replicated management actions on a large spatial scale

…, A Landa, T Meijer, M Mela, J Niemimaa… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
More than a quarter of the world's carnivores are threatened, often due to multiple and complex
causes. Considerable research efforts are devoted to resolving the mechanisms behind …

Isolation and Characterization of a Hantavirus from Lemmus sibiricus: Evidence for Host Switch during Hantavirus Evolution

…, K Nemirov, K Fredga, JA Cook, J Niemimaa… - Journal of …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
A novel hantavirus, first detected in Siberian lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus) collected near
the Topografov River in the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia (A. Plyusnin et al., Lancet 347:1835–…

Isolation and characterization of Dobrava hantavirus carried by the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) in Estonia

…, J Niemimaa, J Laakkonen… - Journal of General …, 1999 - microbiologyresearch.org
Dobrava hantavirus (DOB) was isolated from the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius)
trapped on Saaremaa Island, Estonia, and its genetic and antigenic characteristics were …

Puumala hantavirus genome in patients with nephropathia epidemica: correlation of PCR positivity with HLA haplotype and link to viral sequences in local rodents

…, O Vapalahti, SK Kukkonen, J Niemimaa… - Journal of clinical …, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
Reverse transcription-PCR was used to analyze specimens from 20 Finnish nephropathia
epidemica (NE) patients hospitalized during the period from October 1994 to January 1995. …

Systematic relationships of hymenolepidid cestodes of rodents and shrews inferred from sequences of 28S ribosomal RNA

…, C Feliu, J Laakkonen, J Niemimaa… - Zoologica …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… The best model for the phylogenetic analysis was GTR+I+γ, as suggested by the Akaike
information criterion implemented in jModelTest (Posada 2008). Phylogenetic analyses were …

Isolation and characterization of Tula virus, a distinct serotype in the genus Hantavirus, family Bunyaviridae

…, T Manni, M Pejcoch, J Niemimaa… - Journal of General …, 1996 - microbiologyresearch.org
A Vero E6 cell culture isolate of Tula virus (TUL), a hantavirus first detected in European
common voles (Microtus arvalis and M. rossiaemeridionalis) by RT-PCR was obtained after …

[HTML][HTML] Tick-borne encephalitis virus in wild rodents in winter, Finland, 2008–2009

…, T Tikkakoski, L Voutilainen, J Niemimaa… - Emerging infectious …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rodents might maintain tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) in nature through latent persistent
infections. During 2 subsequent winters, 2008 and 2009, in Finland, we detected RNA of …