Current students

Christelle

Christelle Couchoux

PhD (09-) -Spatial foraging behavior of the parasitoid Hyposoter horticola (University of Helsinki)

christelle.couchoux@helsinki.fi
Katie

Katie Sullivan

PhD (08-) (Primary advisor Laura Jones, Cornell University)- Mathematical modeling of host-parasitoid-hyperparasitoid interactions

sull0294@gmail.com

Tom Kraft

Undergraduate Honours thesis student- Indirect interaction between butterflies mediated by pupal parasitoids (Cornell University)

 

tsk29@cornell.edu

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Undergraduate student such as YOU

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Cornell: email saskya@cornell.edu

Assistants (missing many great past and current assistants)

Terhi Lahtinen

terhi.lahtinen@helsinki.fi

Past postdocs

Marcela Castelo (2004)

Dpto. de Ecologia, Genetica y Evolucion Ciudad Universitaria de Buenos Aires, Argentina

mcastelo@ege.fcen.uba.ar

http://www.ege.fcen.uba.ar/

 Castelo, M. K., van Nouhuy, S. &. Corley, J. C.. Olfactory attraction of a parasitoid to plants infested with butterfly eggs. Journal of insect Science, in press

Carolina Reigada (2008)

reigada_bio@hotmail.com

 

Past students

Markku Ojanen

MS (05-08) -Plant, phytopathogen, parasitoid interaction

  

Anne Reichgelt

MSc (07) Rate of parasitism by the hyperparasitoid Mesochorus stigmaticus

 

Kaisa Torri

MSc- Natural hsitory of the butterfly Melitaea athalia

 Reudler Talsma, J., Torri, K. van Nouhuys, S. 2008 pdf
Host plant use by the Heath fritillary butterfly, Melitaea athalia: plant habitat, species and chemistry.
Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2: 63-75

Joanneke Reudler Talsma

PhD (Primary advisor A. Biere, Nertherlands Institute of Ecology) Costs and benefits of iridoids glycosides in multitrophic systems
her webpage

Reudler Talsma, J., Biere, A., Harvey, J. A., van Nouhuys, S. 2008 PDF
Oviposition cues for a specialist butterfly: plant chemistry and size. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 34: 2102-1212

Reudler Talsma, J., Torri, K. van Nouhuys, S. 2008 pdf
Host plant use by the Heath fritillary butterfly, Melitaea athalia: plant habitat, species and chemistry. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2: 63-75

Riikka Kaartinen

MSc (03-06) -Spatial foraging behavior of the parasitoid Hyposoter horticola (University ofHelsinki)

Riikka.kaartinen@helsinki.fi See Riikka

 van Nouhuys, S. Kaartinen, R. 2008 pdf
A parasitoid wasp uses landmarks while monitoring potential resources. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 275: 377-385

Maaria Kankare

PhD (1999-2004) (primary advisor I. Hanski, University of Helsinki) Phylogeny and host associations of Cotesia parasitoids attacking checkerspot butterflies

 Kankare, M., Stefanescu, C., van Nouhuys, S., Shaw, M. R. 2005 pdf. Host specialization by Cotesia wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitising species-rich Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) communities in north-eastern Spain.
The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86: 45-65

Kankare, M., van Nouhuys, S., Gaggiotti, O., Hanski, I. 2005 PDF
Metapopulation genetic structure of two coexisting parasitoids of the Glanville fritillary butterfly. Oecologia, 143: 77-84

Kankare, M., van Nouhuys, S. Hanski, I. 2005 pdf
Genetic divergence among host-specific cryptic species in Cotesia melitaearum agg., a parasitoid of checkerspot butterflies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98: 382-394

Lucie Salvaudon

Undergraduate thesis (2002), Paris- The mechanisms by which the parasitoid wasp Hyposoter horticola lays eggs in only1/3 of the hosts per host cluster

 

Johanna Ehrnsten

MSc (01-03) Movement and oviposition behavior of an extremely mobile parasitoid wasp, Hyposoter horticola

 van Nouhuys, S, Ehrnsten, J. 2004 pdf
Parasitoid behavior that leads to uniform parasitism of a host available only a few hours per year. Behavioral Ecology, 15: 661-665
 

Christian Anton

MSc, (00-01) Jena, germany- Behavioral and developmental responses of a specialist parasitoid wasp to host larvae feeding on two host food plant species

  

Eeva Punju

MSc (00-02) Interspecific competition between immature parasitoid wasps within host larvae

van Nouhuys, S. and Punju, E. 2009 pdf
Coexistence of competing parasitoids: which is the fugitive and where does it hide? Oikos, in press