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Overview

Aleksi Lehtonen is affiliated with the Finnish Forest Research Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with specific attention to subfields including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, atmospheric science, and soil science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably peatlands and wetlands ecology, forest ecology and management, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, fire effects on ecosystems, and forest management and policy.

Lehtonen has contributed to numerous publications with a strong presence in various venues. Frequent publication platforms include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Forest Ecology and Management, SSRN Electronic Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Policy briefs.

Collaborations form a significant part of Lehtonen's work, with frequent co-authors including Raisa Mäkipää, Mikko Peltoniemi, Boris Ťupek, Juha Heikkinen, and Miguel Á. Zavala.

Among recent papers are:

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? - A review, 2022, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Selection Cuttings as a Tool to Control Water Table Level in Boreal Drained Peatland Forests, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • On the trade-offs and synergies between forest carbon sequestration and substitution, 2021, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges, 2020, Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Biomass expansion factors (BEFs) for Scots pine, Norway spruce and birch according to stand age for boreal forests

    A Lehtonen;R Mäkipää;J Heikkinen;R Sievänen

  • Indirect methods of large-scale forest biomass estimation

    Z. Somogyi;E. Cienciala;R. Mäkipää;P. Muukkonen

  • Carbon accumulation in Finland's forests 1922–2004 – an estimate obtained by combination of forest inventory data with modelling of biomass, litter and soil

    Jari Liski;Jari Liski;Aleksi Lehtonen;Taru Palosuo;Mikko Peltoniemi

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • Individual tree biomass equations or biomass expansion factors for assessment of carbon stock changes in living biomass – A comparative study

    Hans Petersson;Sören Holm;Göran Ståhl;David Alger

  • Generic methodologies applicable to multiple land-use categories

    Stephen Michael Ogle;Werner Alexander Kurz;Carly Green;Andrea Brandon

  • How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? – A review

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  • Estimation of the biomass stock of trees in Sweden: comparison of biomass equations and age-dependent biomass expansion factors

    Anneli Jalkanen;Raisa Mäkipää;Göran Ståhl;Aleksi Lehtonen

  • Comparison of methods for measuring and assessing carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in terrestrial carbon pools. How do the accuracy and precision of current methods compare?: a systematic review protocol

    Gillian Petrokofsky;Hideki Kanamaru;Frédéric Achard;Scott J Goetz

  • Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality.

    Fons van der Plas;Fons van der Plas;Sophia Ratcliffe;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Modes of functional biodiversity control on tree productivity across the European continent

    Sophia Ratcliffe;Mario Liebergesell;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Jaime Madrigal González

  • Forest carbon allocation modelling under climate change.

    Katarína Merganičová;Ján Merganič;Aleksi Lehtonen;Giorgio Vacchiano

  • Comparison of linear and mixed-effect regression models and a k-nearest neighbour approach for estimation of single-tree biomass

    Lutz FehrmannL. Fehrmann;Lutz FehrmannL. Fehrmann;Aleksi LehtonenA. Lehtonen;Aleksi LehtonenA. Lehtonen;Christoph KleinnC. Kleinn;Christoph KleinnC. Kleinn;Erkki TomppoE. Tomppo;Erkki TomppoE. Tomppo

  • Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests

    Lander Baeten;Helge Bruelheide;Fons van der Plas;Stephan Kambach

  • An examination of in situ rock stress estimation using the Kaiser effect

    A. Lehtonen;J.W. Cosgrove;J.A. Hudson;E. Johansson

  • Estimating foliage biomass in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Norway spruce (Picea abies) plots

    Aleksi Lehtonen

  • Impacts of forest biomass removal on soil nutrient status under climate change: a catchment-based modelling study for Finland

    Julian Aherne;Maximilian Posch;Martin Forsius;Aleksi Lehtonen

  • Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality.

    Paloma Ruiz‐Benito;Paloma Ruiz‐Benito;Sophia Ratcliffe;Miguel A. Zavala;Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta

  • Uncertainty estimation of biomass expansion factors for Norway spruce in the Czech Republic

    Aleksi Lehtonen;Emil Cienciala;Fedor Tatarinov;Raisa Mäkipää

  • Needle and branch biomass turnover rates of Norway spruce (Picea abies)

    P. Muukkonen;A. Lehtonen

  • Available and missing data to model impact of climate change on European forests

    Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Giorgio Vacchiano;Emily R. Lines;Christopher P.O. Reyer

  • Potential litterfall of Scots pine branches in southern Finland

    Aleksi Lehtonen;Risto Sievänen;Annikki Mäkelä;Raisa Mäkipää

  • A multi-model comparison of soil carbon assessment of a coniferous forest stand

    Taru Palosuo;Bente Foereid;Magnus Svensson;Narasinha Shurpali

  • Estimation of the biomass stock of trees in Sweden

    Anneli Jalkanen;Raisa Mäkipää;Göran Ståhl;Aleksi Lehtonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Raisa Mäkipää
Raisa Mäkipää Natural Resources Institute Finland
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Paloma Ruiz-Benito University of Alcalá
Miguel A. Zavala
Miguel A. Zavala University of Alcalá
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Annikki Mäkelä
Annikki Mäkelä University of Helsinki
Jari Liski
Jari Liski Finnish Meteorological Institute
Kristiina Regina
Kristiina Regina Natural Resources Institute Finland
Timo Penttilä
Timo Penttilä Natural Resources Institute Finland
Taru Palosuo
Taru Palosuo Natural Resources Institute Finland
Raija Laiho
Raija Laiho Natural Resources Institute Finland

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