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67
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Overview

Atte Korhola is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland, contributing extensively to research in environmental and earth sciences. Their work primarily focuses on peatlands and wetlands ecology, fire effects on ecosystems, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics. These topics reflect a broad engagement with ecological and geophysical processes at regional and global scales.

Korhola has published in prominent journals across multiple fields, including environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their frequent publication venues include Quaternary Science Reviews, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, Nature Climate Change, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences.

They have contributed to several recent papers that highlight their research scope and collaborations:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Spatially varying peatland initiation, Holocene development, carbon accumulation patterns and radiative forcing within a subarctic fen, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Chironomid-based classification of lakes in western Finnish Lapland, 2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene, 2023, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Peatland Heterogeneity Impacts on Regional Carbon Flux and Its Radiative Effect Within a Boreal Landscape, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Korhola collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Minna Väliranta, Sanna Piilo, Jan Weckström, Sari Juutinen, and Teemu Juselius-Rajamäki. These co-authors have worked with Korhola on various projects, often exploring topics related to boreal and subarctic ecosystems.

Their research spans main fields of study such as environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Within these fields, Korhola has focused on subfields including ecology, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, general health professions, and philosophy.

The main research topics they address include:

  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Best Publications

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

    John P. Smol;Alexander P. Wolfe;H. John B. Birks;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system

    Almut Arneth;S. P. Harrison;S. P. Harrison;S. Zaehle;K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis

  • A Database and Synthesis of Northern Peatland Soil Properties and Holocene Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation

    Julie Loisel;Zicheng Yu;David W. Beilman;Philip Camill

  • Cladocera and Other Branchiopod Crustaceans

    Atte Korhola;Milla Rautio

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Lake diatom response to recent Arctic warming in Finnish Lapland

    Sanna Sorvari;Atte Korhola;Roy Thompson

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • A Quantitative Holocene Climatic Record from Diatoms in Northern Fennoscandia

    Atte Antero Korhola;Jan Björn Weckström;Lasse Holmström;Panu Erästö

  • Cladoceran and chironomid assemblages as qualitative indicators of water depth in subarctic Fennoscandian lakes

    Atte Antero Korhola;Heikki Olander;Tom Blom

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • Comparing palaeolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years

    Richard W. Battarbee;John-Arvid Grytnes;Roy Thompson;Peter G. Appleby

  • An expanded calibration model for inferring lakewater and air temperatures from fossil chironomid assemblages in northern Fennoscandia

    Heikki Olander;Harry John Betteley Birks;Atte Korhola;Tom Blom

  • Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

    Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal J. Mullan;Richard J. Payne

  • A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Jukka Alm;Sue Bartlett

  • The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009

    Gwyn Prins;Isabel Galiana;Christopher Green;Reiner Grundmann

  • Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

    P. R. Leavitt;S. C. Fritz;N. J. Anderson;P. A. Baker

  • High-resolution reconstruction of wetness dynamics in a southern boreal raised bog, Finland, during the late Holocene: a quantitative approach

    Minna Väliranta;Atte Korhola;Heikki Seppä;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

  • Diatoms as quantitative indicators of pH and water temperature in subarctic Fennoscandian lakes

    Jan Weckström;Atte Korhola;Tom Blom

Frequent Co-Authors

Minna Väliranta
Minna Väliranta University of Helsinki
Milla Rautio
Milla Rautio Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila University of Eastern Finland
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Steve Juggins
Steve Juggins Newcastle University
Daniel J. Conley
Daniel J. Conley Lund University
Johan Ström
Johan Ström Stockholm University
Richard J. Telford
Richard J. Telford University of Bergen

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