Saskya van Nouhuys Leader, Metacommunity Ecology Group Senior Researcher, Metapopulation Research Group University of Helsinki & Visiting associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Adjunct associate Professor, Department of Entomology Cornell University

I am a population and community ecologist. I work mostly with parasitoid wasps and their butterfly hosts.

The Metacommunity Ecology Group (People) studies processes affecting community structure and dynamics in a patchy landscape. We examine the interplay of local interactions among species with landscape scale processes. Our primary research system is the community associated with the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia). Within that community we mainly focus on parasitoids and hyperparasitoids, though we also work with related butterflies, their food plants, and plant and insect diseases.

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