Mira Kajanus

Mira Kajanus is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biological and Environmental Science under the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at the University of Jyväskylä. Her work focuses on biodiversity monitoring and statistical ecology.

• Faculty: Mathematics and Science
• Email: mira.h.kajanus@jyu.fi

Research Interests

Her research spans community diversity, macroecology, species interactions, and statistical ecology. She specializes in refining national-scale biodiversity monitoring methods using automated high-throughput DNA, audio, and image techniques for taxonomic groups like fungi, birds, bats, mammals, and invertebrates.

Publications & Methodologies

Recent work involves joint species distribution models (JSDMs) and pipeline development for biomonitoring metrics. Her 2023 publication in Ecology Letters explores interspecific information use in ecological and evolutionary contexts.

Research Group

Active member of the Predictive Community Ecology Group, collaborating with Nerea Abrego and Otso Ovaskainen.