Laura is a conservation ecologist, currently working at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in the Helsinki Lab of Ornithology. Her background is in agroecology combined with landscape ecological approaches. More recently, she has been working with long term monitoring data aiming to answer questions on how bird species and communities respond to climate and land use change. She collaborates in other projects on, for example, virus spillover dynamics among honey bees in relation to landscape fragmentation and habitat loss at local and landscape scales and is a board member of the Society for Conservation Biology—Europe Section.