Heikki Henttonen

Visiting Specialist
  • Phone number +358295322430
  • Email address ext.heikki.henttonen@luke.fi
  • Address Latokartanonkaari 9 00790 HELSINKI

Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation

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2025

Beyond the laboratory: the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) as a novel model organism in biological research

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2025

Can Ixodes trianguliceps sustain a transmission cycle of tick-borne encephalitis virus?

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2025

Macroecological patterns of rodent population dynamics shaped by bioclimatic gradients

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2025

Large carnivore distribution maps and population updates 2017-2022/23. Report to the European Comission under contract N° 09.0201/2023/907799/SER/ENV.D.3 “Support for Coexistence with Large Carnivores”, “B.4 Update of the distribution maps”

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2024

Achieving inter- and transdisciplinarity in Ecohealth: insights from a rodent-borne disease project in a polycrisis era

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2024

Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of tapeworms of the family Davaineidae (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea), with emphasis on species in rodents

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2024

Small mammals as carriers of zoonotic bacteria on pig and cattle farms – Prevalence and risk of exposure in an integrative approach

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2024

Osteological profiling of femoral diaphysis and neck in aquatic, semiaquatic, and terrestrial carnivores and rodents: effects of body size and locomotor habits

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2024

Genomic signatures of climate adaptation in bank voles

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2024

Taking the beat of the Arctic: are lemming population cycles changing due to winter climate?

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2024

Pathogen community composition and co-infection patterns in a wild community of rodents

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2024

Golden jackal expansion in northernmost Europe: records in Finland

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2024

Hantavirus Infections among Military Forces

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2023

The impact of wildlife and environmental factors on hantavirus infection in the host and its translation into human risk

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2023

Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland

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2022

Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches

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2022

Editorial: Stowaways of a Stowaway: Parasites of Invasive Rodents

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2022

Importance of demography in understanding disease ecology in small mammals

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2022

Hantavirus Research in Finland: Highlights and Perspectives

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2021

Evolutionary Relationships of Ljungan Virus Variants Circulating in Multi-Host Systems across Europe

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2021

Geographical Distribution and Genetic Diversity of Bank Vole Hepaciviruses in Europe

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2021

The Invasive Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus): A Model System for Studying Parasites and Ecoimmunology during a Biological Invasion

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2021

Zoonotic Cryptosporidium spp. in Wild Rodents and Shrews

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2021