Coordinator
(PhD, ecology, University of Turku)
Contact information
email: firstname.surname@syke.fi
Phone: +358 505 020 272
Finnish Environment Institute
Nature solutions
Protected Areas
Adress: Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki
You can also find me on these pages:
Duties
- Coordinator in the HelMET-project that is a support project for Helmi- and METSO -environment programs.
- Species expert duties and everything related to species protection.
- Research and grant acquisition.
- International development projects of environmental adminstration.
Expertise
- Environmental Restoration
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Nature protection
- Environmental adminstration
- Insects, especially dragonflies and damselflies
- Reptiles and amphibians
Background
I have been working in the Finnish Environment Institute since 2019 as an experts and a researcher. My duties have been diverse, and I have worked with threatened habitats and species (e.g. regional prioritization negotiations of threatened species protection). Recently I have ventured into international development projects targeting environmental management (Türkiye and Armenia). Before joining the Finnish Environment Institute I was a researcher in the University of Turku, studying primarily dragonflies.
Projects
Publications
Adam Z. Hasik Jaakko J. Ilvonen, Adam M. Siepielski, Rosalind L. Murray. Odonata immunity, pathogens, and parasites. In: Dragonflies and Damselflies. Second Edition. Edited by Alex Córdoba-Aguilar, Christopher D. Beatty and Jason T. Bried, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press (2023). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898623.003.0006
Suhonen, J., Ilvonen, J.J., Korkeamäki, E., Nokkala, C. & Salmela, J. (2022) Using functional traits and phylogeny to understand local extinction risk in dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). Ecology and Evolution, 12, p.e8648. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8648
Laakso, L.K., Ilvonen, J.J. & Suhonen, J. (2021) Phenotypic variation in male Calopteryx splendens damselflies: the role of wing pigmentation and body size in thermoregulation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 134:685–696. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab102
Aromaa, S., Ilvonen, J.J. & Suhonen, J. (2019) Body mass and territorial defence strategy affect the territory size of odonate species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286, 20192398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2398
Suhonen, J., Ilvonen, J.J., Nyman, T. & Sorvari, J. (2019) Brood parasitism in eusocial insects (Hymenoptera): role of host geographic range size and phylogeny. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374, 20180203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0203
Ilvonen, J.J., Kaunisto, K.M. & Suhonen, J. (2018) Odonates, gregarines and water mites: why are the same host species infected by both parasites? Ecological Entomology, 43:591-600. DOI: 10.1111/een.12634
Suhonen, J., Ilvonen, S., Dunn, D.W., Dunn, J., Härmä, O., Ilvonen, J.J., Kaunisto, K.M. & Krams, I. (2018) Parasitism affects variation in a male damselfly sexual ornament. Ethology Ecology & Evolution, 30: 256-266. DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2017.1354920
Kaunisto, K.M., Kaunisto, P., Ilvonen, J.J. & Suhonen, J. (2017) Parasitism, immune response, and egg production of the spearhead bluet (Coenagrion hastulatum) damselfly. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 95:367-372. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2016-0146
Ilvonen, J.J. & Suhonen, J. (2016) Phylogeny affects host's weight, immune response and parasitism in damselflies and dragonflies. Royal Society Open Science, 3:160421. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160421
Ilvonen, J.J., Kaunisto, K.M. & Suhonen, J. (2016) Are sexes equally parasitized in damselflies and dragonflies? OIKOS, 125:315-325. DOI: 10.1111/oik.02437
Ilvonen, S., Ilvonen, J.J., Kaunisto, K.M., Krams, I. & Suhonen, J. (2011) Can infection by eugregarine parasites mediate species coexistence in Calopteryx damselflies? Ecological Entomology, 36:582–587. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01307