Otso Huitu

Group Manager, Principal Scientist
  • Phone number +358295324917
  • Email address otso.huitu@luke.fi
  • Address Tekniikankatu 1 33720 TAMPERE

Artificial nest predation, relative abundance, and activity patterns of mesocarnivores in relation to wild boar presence

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2025

Trophic Interactions Are Key to Understanding the Effects of Global Change on the Distribution and Functional Role of the Brown Bear

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2025

Cross‐Taxa Analysis of Long‐Term Data Reveals a Positive Biodiversity‐Stability Relationship With Taxon‐Specific Mechanistic Underpinning

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2025

Effects of silicon application on Betula pendula seedlings

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2025

Potentially zoonotic pathogens and parasites in opportunistically sourced urban brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in and around Helsinki, Finland, 2018 to 2023

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2024

The performance of alternative GPS tracking devices: a case report on wild boars (Sus scrofa)

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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

Multifunctional forests and their risks under climate change

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2024

Genomic signatures of climate adaptation in bank voles

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2024

Agricultural damage following the recent expansion of wild boar (Sus scrofa)—farmer perceptions and preconditions

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2024

Home ranges and movement patterns of wild boars (Sus scrofa) at the northern edge of the species’ distribution range

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2023

VKORC1-based resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides widespread in Finnish house mice but not in brown rats

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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

Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils

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2022

Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches

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2022

High Toxocara cati prevalence in wild, free-ranging Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Finland, 1999–2015

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2022

Zoonotic Cryptosporidium spp. in Wild Rodents and Shrews

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2021

Population cycles and outbreaks of small rodents: ten essential questions we still need to solve

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2021

Host-Dependent Clustering of Campylobacter Strains From Small Mammals in Finland

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2021

Prevalence of anticoagulant rodenticide resistance (Vkorc1 gene polymorphism) in two commensal rodent species in Finland

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2021

Low genetic polymorphism in the re-introduced Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) population in Finland: implications for conservation

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2020

Population fluctuations and spatial synchrony in an arboreal rodent

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2019

Recent establishment of tick-borne encephalitis foci with distinct viral lineages in the Helsinki area, Finland

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2019

Towards integrated surveillance of zoonoses: spatiotemporal joint modeling of rodent population data and human tularemia cases in Finland

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2018