Van Nouhuys, Saskya D.

affiliations

faculty appointment in

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) | Cornell department

teaching

teaches

BIOG 4990 - Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
BIOG 4990 - Independent Undergraduate Research in Biology (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
ENTOM 2120 - Insect Biology (TR 11:15:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2008 class
ENTOM 4980 - Undergraduate Teaching (TBA -) | fall 2008 class

service

current professional activities

Member, Ecological Society of America
Member, Entomological Society of America
Member, International Society of Hymenopterists
Member, International Organization for Biological Control
Member, Xerces Society
Journal peer reviews (10-15 per year): Acta Oecologica, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Basic and Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Control, Biology Letters, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecological Entomology, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Entomologica Fennica, Ethology, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, J. of Animal Ecology, J. of Applied Ecology, J. of Insect Behavior, J. of Insect Science, Molecular Ecology, Oecologia, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society
Grant proposal reviews: USDA-NRI proposals to Biologically Based Pest Management program (8), and to the Managed Ecosystems program (2), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (1), Heinz foundation (1)
Ph.D evaluations: Outside evaluator for J. Elzinga, 2005, University Utrecht NL.
Symposiums organized: "The ecology of parasitoids of butterflies" for the 5th Conference on Butterfly Biology, Italy, 2007.

event host

Determinants of host specialization in insect parasitoids | Monday, September 29, 2008 3:45 PM

background

educational background

Ph.D., Entomology, Cornell University, 1997
B.A., Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1987

professional background

Senior Researcher in the Metapopulation Research Group, Dept. of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2003 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, 2002- present
Lecturer, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, 2004
Researcher in the Metapopulation Research Group, Dept. of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2001-2003
Post-doctoral Fellow with Ilkka Hanski, Dept. of Ecology and Systematics, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1997- 2001
Visiting Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, 2000 - 2002
Visiting Fellow Department of Entomology, Cornell University, 1998 - 2000
Field assistant for California Agricultural Extension, 1998 - 2000

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Saastamoinen, M., van Nouhuys, S., Nieminen, M., OHara, B., Suomi, J. 2007, Development and survival of a specialist herbivore, Melitaea cinxia, on host plants producing high and low concentrations of iridoid glycosides. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 44: 70-80.
Elzinga, J. A., van Nouhuys, S., van Leeuwen, D. J., Biere, A. 2007, Distribution and colonization ability of three parasitoids and their herbivorous host in a fragmented landscape., Basic and Applied Ecology, 8: 75-88
Harvey, J.A., van Nouhuys, S., Biere, A. 2005, Effects of quantitative variation in allelochemicals in Plantago lanceolata on development of a generalist and a specialist herbivore and their endoparasitoids, Journal of Chemical Ecology, 31: 287-302
Kankare, M., Stefanescu, C., van Nouhuys, S., Shaw, M. R. 2005, Host specialization by Cotesia wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitising species-rich Melitaeini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) communities in north-eastern Spain, The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86: 45-65
Kankare, M., van Nouhuys, S., Gaggiotti, O., Hanski, I. 2005, Metapopulation genetic structure of two coexisting parasitoids of the Glanville fritillary butterfly, Oecologia, 143: 77-84
Kankare, M., van Nouhuys, S. Hanski, I. 2005, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 98: 382-394
van Nouhuys, S. 2005, Annales Zoologici Fennici, 42: 433447
van Nouhuys, S, Ehrnsten, J. 2004, Parasitoid behavior that leads to uniform parasitism of a host available only a few hours per year, Behavioral Ecology, 15: 661-665
van Nouhuys, S., G.C. Lei. 2004, Parasitoid and host metapopulation dynamics: the influence of temperature mediated phenological asynchron, Journal of Animal Ecology, 73: 526-535
Nieminen, M., J. Suomi, S. van Nouhuys, P. Sauri, M. Riekkola. 2003, Effect of iridoid glycoside content on oviposition host plant and parasitism in a specialist herbivore., Journal of Chemical Ecology, 29: 823-844