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Anu Eskelinen

Anu Eskelinen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
5166
World Ranking
7125
National Ranking
120

Overview

Anu Eskelinen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with considerable contributions to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work focuses on key topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Anu Eskelinen has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent appearances in notable venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Ecology Letters

Among their recent papers are:

  • Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity, 2022, Nature
  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory, 2020, Nature Communications

Collaborations form a significant part of Eskelinen's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Risto Virtanen
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Maria C. Caldeira

Best Publications

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity

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  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Links between plant community composition, soil organic matter quality and microbial communities in contrasting tundra habitats

    Anu Eskelinen;Sari Stark;Minna Männistö

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • Nutrient availability and pH jointly constrain microbial extracellular enzyme activities in nutrient-poor tundra soils

    Sari Stark;Minna K. Männistö;Anu Eskelinen;Anu Eskelinen

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Resource colimitation governs plant community responses to altered precipitation.

    Anu Eskelinen;Anu Eskelinen;Susan P. Harrison

  • Herbivores rescue diversity in warming tundra by modulating trait-dependent species losses and gains.

    Elina Kaarlejärvi;Elina Kaarlejärvi;Anu Eskelinen;Johan Olofsson

  • Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

    H. J. D. Thomas;A. D. Bjorkman;A. D. Bjorkman;I. H. Myers-Smith;S. C. Elmendorf

  • Local and regional processes in low‐productive mountain plant communities: the roles of seed and microsite limitation in relation to grazing

    Anu Eskelinen;Risto Virtanen

  • Exotic plant invasions under enhanced rainfall are constrained by soil nutrients and competition

    Anu Eskelinen;Anu Eskelinen;Susan Harrison

  • Ecological effects of extreme drought on Californian herbaceous plant communities

    Stella M. Copeland;Susan P. Harrison;Andrew M. Latimer;Ellen I. Damschen

  • Changes in the abundance, composition and species richness of mountain vegetation in relation to summer grazing by reindeer

    Anu Eskelinen;Jari Oksanen

  • Herbivore and neighbour effects on tundra plants depend on species identity, nutrient availability and local environmental conditions

    Anu Eskelinen

  • Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity

    Kevin Van Sundert;Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan;Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan;Siddharth Bharath;Yvonne M. Buckley

  • Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory.

    E. T. Borer;W. S. Harpole;W. S. Harpole;P. B. Adler;C. A. Arnillas

  • Herbivory prevents positive responses of lowland plants to warmer and more fertile conditions at high altitudes

    Elina Kaarlejärvi;Anu Eskelinen;Anu Eskelinen;Johan Olofsson

  • Plant communities on infertile soils are less sensitive to climate change

    Susan Harrison;Ellen Damschen;Barbara Fernandez-Going;Anu Eskelinen

  • Long-Term Changes in Alpine Plant Communities in Norway and Finland

    R. Virtanen;A. Eskelinen;E. Gaare

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Virtanen
Risto Virtanen University of Oulu
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Anita C. Risch
Anita C. Risch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Mahesh Sankaran
Mahesh Sankaran University of Leeds
Susan Harrison
Susan Harrison University of California, Davis
Maria C. Caldeira
Maria C. Caldeira University of Lisbon
Martin Schütz
Martin Schütz Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph

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