Samuli Heikkinen

Research Scientist
  • Phone number +358295327873
  • Email address samuli.heikkinen@luke.fi
  • Address Paavo Havaksen tie 3 90570 OULU

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

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Mating from a female perspective: Do brown bear females play an active role in mate searching?

Refereed scientific publications
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2025

Does abundant wild prey decrease the risk of wolf damages in sheep farms in Finland?

Refereed scientific publications
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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”

Other publications
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2024

Large carnivore impacts : case study : Northern Finland : large carnivores in the reindeer husbandry area

Other publications
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2024

Livin' on the edge: reducing infanticide risk by maintaining proximity to potentially less infanticidal males

Refereed scientific publications
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2024

Golden jackal expansion in northernmost Europe: records in Finland

Refereed scientific publications
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2024

Wolf attacks on hunting dogs are negatively related to prey abundance in Finland: an analysis at the wolf territory level

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Does prey scarcity increase the risk of wolf attacks on domestic dogs?

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: factors other than age shape brown bear movement patterns

Refereed scientific publications
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2022

Calf/female ratio and population dynamics of wild forest reindeer in relation to wolf and moose abundances in a managed European ecosystem

Refereed scientific publications
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2021

Does moonlight affect movement patterns of a non‐obligate carnivore? Brown bears do not mind that the moon exists

Refereed scientific publications
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2021

Inadvertent shooting of brown bear cubs in Finland: what can managers do to reduce it?

Refereed scientific publications
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2021

Does artificial feeding affect large carnivore behaviours? The case study of brown bears in a hunted and tourist exploited subpopulation

Refereed scientific publications
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2021

Has the sex-specific structure of Finland's brown bear population changed during 21 years?

Refereed scientific publications
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2020

Balancing costs and confidence: volunteer-provided point observations, GPS telemetry and the genetic monitoring of Finland’s wolves

Refereed scientific publications
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2018

Wolf visitations close to human residences in Finland: The role of age, residence density, and time of day

Refereed scientific publications
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2016