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D. Johan Kotze is a researcher affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their primary fields of study are Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

D. Johan Kotze has contributed to multiple scientific papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions" (2022), published in Urban Ecosystems
  • "A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis" (2020), published in BioScience
  • "Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment" (2022), published in Urban Ecosystems
  • "Landscape adaptation to climate change: Local networks, social learning and co-creation processes for adaptive planning" (2022), published in Global Environmental Change

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Heikki Setälä
  • Susanna Lehvävirta
  • Ari Jumpponen
  • Bang-Xiao Zheng
  • Changyi Lu

D. Johan Kotze regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Urban Ecosystems
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Invasions

Best Publications

  • Do not log-transform count data

    Robert B. O’Hara;D. Johan Kotze

  • Using the ecosystem services approach for better planning and conservation of urban green spaces: a Finland case study

    Jari Niemelä;Sanna-Riikka Saarela;Tarja Söderman;Leena Kopperoinen

  • Forty years of carabid beetle research in Europe – from taxonomy, biology, ecology and population studies to bioindication, habitat assessment and conservation

    D. Johan Kotze;Pietro Brandmayr;Achille Casale;Emmanuelle Dauffy-Richard

  • Carabid beetle assemblages (Coleoptera, Carabidae) across urban-rural gradients: an international comparison

    Jari Niemelä;D. Johan Kotze;Stephen Venn;Lyubomir Penev

  • Species decline--but why? Explanations of carabid beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) declines in Europe.

    D. Johan Kotze;Robert B. O'Hara

  • Carabid beetle assemblages along urban to rural gradients: a review.

    Jari Niemelä;D. Johan Kotze

  • Towards an urban marine ecology: characterizing the drivers, patterns and processes of marine ecosystems in coastal cities

    Peter A. Todd;Eliza C. Heery;Lynette H. L. Loke;Ruth H. Thurstan

  • Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

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  • Changes in carabid beetle assemblages across an urban-rural gradient in Japan

    M. Ishitani;D. J. Kotze;J. Niemelä

  • The effects of forestry on carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in boreal forests

    Jari Niemelä;Matti Koivula;D. Johan Kotze

  • Carabid beetle and spider assemblages along a forested urban–rural gradient in southern Finland

    Diane Alaruikka;D. Johan Kotze;Katja Matveinen;Jari Niemel

  • Soil microbial communities are shaped by vegetation type and park age in cities under cold climate

    Nan Hui;Ari Jumpponen;Gaia Francini;D. Johan Kotze

  • Pitfall trap efficiency: do trap size, collecting fluid and vegetation structure matter?

    Matti Koivula;D. Johan Kotze;Laura Hiisivuori;Hannu Rita

  • Closure of view to the urban matrix has positive effects on perceived restorativeness in urban forests in Helsinki, Finland

    Kaisa Hauru;Susanna Lehvävirta;Kalevi Korpela;D. Johan Kotze

  • A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

    Sonja Knapp;Myla F J Aronson;Ela Carpenter;Adriana Herrera-Montes

  • Vegetation type and age drive changes in soil properties, nitrogen and carbon sequestration in urban parks under cold climate

    Heikki Martti Setälä;Gaia Francini;John Andrew Allen;Nan Hui

  • Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

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  • Invertebrate conservation at the interface between the grassland matrix and natural Afromontane forest fragments

    David Johannes Kotze;Michael J. Samways

  • Urbanization erodes ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and may cause microbial communities to converge.

    Dietrich J Epp Schmidt;Richard Pouyat;Katalin Szlavecz;Heikki Setälä

  • Edge effects and trampling in boreal urban forest fragments – impacts on the soil microbial community

    Minna Malmivaara-Lämsä;Leena Hamberg;Elli Haapamäki;Jari Liski

  • The effects of habitat edges and trampling on understorey vegetation in urban forests in Helsinki, Finland

    Leena Hamberg;Susanna Lehvävirta;Malmivaara‐Lämsä Minna;Hannu Rita

  • Urban snow indicates pollution originating from road traffic.

    Kirsi Kuoppamäki;Heikki Setälä;Anna-Lea Rantalainen;D. Johan Kotze

  • Forest edge structure as a shaping factor of understorey vegetation in urban forests in Finland

    Leena Hamberg;Susanna Lehvävirta;D. Johan Kotze

Frequent Co-Authors

Heikki Setälä
Heikki Setälä University of Helsinki
Jari Niemelä
Jari Niemelä University of Helsinki
Robert B. O'Hara
Robert B. O'Hara Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Katalin Szlavecz
Katalin Szlavecz Johns Hopkins University
Ari Jumpponen
Ari Jumpponen Kansas State University
Pekka Punttila
Pekka Punttila Finnish Environment Institute
Janne S. Kotiaho
Janne S. Kotiaho University of Jyväskylä
Richard V. Pouyat
Richard V. Pouyat US Forest Service
Martin Romantschuk
Martin Romantschuk University of Helsinki
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal

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