Senior researcher
PhD
Contact information
Email: kimmo.t.tolonen@syke.fi
Tel: +358 295 251 037
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Nature solutions
Freshwater ecology
Street address: Survontie 9 A
FI-40500 Jyväskylä, Finland
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
Tasks
- Aquatic ecology, biodiversity and functioning of freshwater ecosystems and bioassessment with special emphasis on benthic macroinvertebrates
- Human impacts on water bodies and aquatic biodiversity
- Bioassessment and ecological status of freshwaters with special emphasis on benthic macroinvertebrates
- Conservation of aquatic biodiversity
- Quality assurance of macroinvertebrate taxonomic identifications, interlaboratory proficiency tests
Research and expertise
- Freshwater biodiversity
- Status and function of freshwater ecosystems
- Human impacts on freshwaters
- Bioassessment and ecological status classification of freshwaters
- Community ecology and statistical community analyses
- Taxonomic identifications of benthic macroinvertebrates
- Application of eDNA-methods in aquatic research and monitoring
Research and development projects
- European Climate Risk Assessment, EUCRA
- Regoverning the existing hydropower system: integrating ecological, economic and societal aspects of sustainability, SusHydro
- Mining impacts on the environment and biodiversity, The International Resource Panel
- Quantitative development of required monitoring programmes in Finnish river systems: industry-specific and nationwide temporal survey with future guidelines, VesiVeikko
- Modelling and assessment of freshwater biodiversity loss using biological monitoring data, VESIBIO
- Utilization of eDNA methods in water status and biodiversity assessment, eDNA-monitor
- Freshabit Life IP – veden valtakunnassa tapahtuu, 2016-2022
- Scaling biodiversity in tropical and boreal streams: implications for diversity mapping and environmental assessment, ScaleBio, 2014-2017
Publications
Up-to-date lists of publications in Google Scholar Kimmo T. Tolonen @Google scholar and ResearchGate.