Toomas Tammaru, Ph. D.
e-mail:
toomas@wam.umd.edu
web site:
www.zbi.ee/~toomast
Life history evolution (mainly insects: body size, oviposition, bet-hedging etc.).
Population dynamics of herbivorous insects.
Taxonomy and distribution of Macrolepidoptera.
May 1968: born in Tartu, Estonia.
1975-1986: Tartu Secondary School No. 10.
1987-1989: a soldier in Soviet Army.
1986-1993: undergraduate studies at the University of Tartu.
1992: B. Sc., biology;1994-1997: postgraduate studies at the University of Turku, Finland.
1993: M. Sc., zoology;
1997: Ph. D., animal ecology.
since 1998: researcher at the Institute of Zoology and Botany, Estonian Agricultural University.
since Nov. 1999: associate professor of animal ecology at the University of Tartu.
Feb. - Nov. 2000: a visiting scientist (a Fulbright scholar) at the University of Maryland.
Tammaru, T. & Javoi, J. 2001. Responses of ovipositing moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) to host plant deprivation: life-history aspects and implications for population dynamics. - Environmental Entomology, in press.
Ruohomäki, K., Tanhuanpää, M., Ayres M. P., Kaitaniemi, P., Tammaru, T. & Haukioja, E. 2000. Causes of cyclicity of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) - grandiose theory and tedious practice.- Researches in Population Ecology, in press.
Tammaru, T., Ruohomäki, K. & Montola, M. 2000. Crowding-induced plasticity in Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): weak evidence of specific modifications in reaction norms. - Oikos, in press.
Gyllenberg, M., Hemminki, J., & Tammaru, T. (order alphabetical) 1999. Allee effects can both create and maintain spatial heterogeneity in population densities. - Theoretical Population Biology 56: 231-242.
Parmesan, C., Ryrholm, N., Stefanescu, C., Hill, J. K., Thomas, C. D., Descimon, H., Huntley, B., Kaila, L., Kullberg, J., Tammaru, T., Tennent, J., Thomas, J. A. & Warren, M. 1999. Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming. - Nature 399: 579-583.
Tammaru, T. & Hõrak, P. 1999. Should one invest more in larger broods? Not necessarily. - Oikos 85: 574-581.
Teder, T., Tammaru, T. & Pedmanson, R. 1999. Patterns of host use in solitary parasitoid species: field evidence from a homogenous habitat. - Ecography 22: 79-88.
Kaitaniemi, P., Ruohomäki, K., Tammaru, T. & Haukioja, E. 1999. Foliage quality and induced resistance of host plant during and after a natural insect outbreak. - Journal of Animal Ecology 68: 382-389.
Tammaru, T., Ruohomäki, K. & Saloniemi, I. 1999. Within-season variability of pupal period in the autumnal moth: a bet-hedging strategy? - Ecology, 80: 1666-1677.
Tammaru, T. 1998. Determination of adult size in a folivorous moth: constraints at instar level? - Ecological Entomology 23: 80-89.
Ruohomäki, K., Virtanen, T., Kaitaniemi, P. & Tammaru, T. 1997. Old mountain birches at high altitudes are prone to outbreaks of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). - Environmental Entomology 26: 1096-1104.
Tammaru, T. & Haukioja, E. 1996. Capital breeders and income breeders among Lepidoptera: consequences to population dynamics. - Oikos 77: 561-564.
Tammaru, T., Kaitaniemi, P. & Ruohomäki, K. 1996. Realized fecundity in Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): relation to body size and consequences to population dynamics. - Oikos 77: 407-416.
Hõrak, P. & Tammaru, T. 1996. Between-year variation in breeding conditions biases heritability estimates for body size in birds. - Ardea 84: 127-135.
Tammaru, T., Ruohomäki, K. & Saikkonen, K. 1996. Components of male fitness in relation to body size in Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae). - Ecological Entomology 21: 185-192.
Ruohomäki, K., Kaitaniemi, P., Kozlov, M., Tammaru, T. & Haukioja E. 1996. Density and performance of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) along three air pollution gradients in northern Europe. - Journal of Applied Ecology 33: 773-785.
Tammaru, T., Virtanen, T., Ruohomäki, K. & Kaila, L. 1995. Eupithecia veratraria Herrich-Schäffer, 1850 new to Scandinavia, with the redescription of E. veratraria ssp. arctica Viidalepp, 1974 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) - Nota Lepidopterologica 18: 297-303.
Tammaru, T., Kaitaniemi, P. & Ruohomäki, K. 1995. Oviposition choices of Epirrita autumnata in relation to its eruptive population dynamics. - Oikos 74: 296-304.
Zhu J. W., Löfstedt, C., Philipp, P., Francke, W., Tammaru, T. & Haukioja, E. 1995. A sex pheromone component novel to the Geometridae identified from Epirrita autumnata. - Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 75: 159-164.