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Overview

Frauke Ecke is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has made contributions primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics covered by Frauke Ecke's research include:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases

Among the most recently published papers by Ecke are:

  • Population fluctuations and synanthropy explain transmission risk in rodent-borne zoonoses, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Global patterns and determinants of lake macrophyte taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Wild ungulate species differ in their contribution to the transmission of Ixodes ricinus-borne pathogens, 2021, Parasites & Vectors
  • Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils, 2022, Molecular Ecology
  • Climate change accelerates winter transmission of a zoonotic pathogen, 2021, AMBIO

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ecke include:

  • Birger Hörnfeldt
  • Magnus Magnusson
  • Navinder J. Singh
  • Hussein Khalil
  • Heikki Henttonen

The scientist has published multiple papers in a range of venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Viruses
  • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frauke Ecke is also an author of a book titled Wpływ zmian klimatu na środowisko leśne / Impacts of climate change on forest environment, published in 2023 by the Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science.

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide dampening of population cycles in keystone herbivores

    Thomas Cornulier;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Vincent Bretagnolle;Jon E. Brommer

  • Population dynamics of small mammals in relation to forest age and structural habitat factors in northern Sweden

    Frauke Ecke;Ola Löfgren;Dieke Sörlin

  • Classifying aquatic macrophytes as indicators of eutrophication in European lakes

    W. Ellis Penning;Marit Mjelde;Bernard Dudley;Seppo Hellsten

  • Using aquatic macrophyte community indices to define the ecological status of European lakes

    W. Ellis Penning;Bernard J. Dudley;Marit Mjelde;Seppo Hellsten

  • Global variation in the beta diversity of lake macrophytes is driven by environmental heterogeneity rather than latitude

    Janne Alahuhta;Sarian Kosten;Munemitsu Akasaka;Dominique Auderset

  • Sublethal Lead Exposure Alters Movement Behavior in Free-Ranging Golden Eagles

    Frauke Ecke;Navinder J. Singh;Jon Martin Arnemo;Anders Bignert;Anders Bignert

  • Catchment properties and the photosynthetic trait composition of freshwater plant communities.

    L. L. Iversen;L. L. Iversen;A. Winkel;L. Baastrup-Spohr;A. B. Hinke

  • Maximum growing depth of submerged macrophytes in European lakes

    Martin Søndergaard;Geoff Phillips;Seppo Hellsten;Agnieszka Kolada

  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum evolves in geographical and biotic niches of vertebrates and ticks.

    Ryanne I Jaarsma;Hein Sprong;Katsuhisa Takumi;Maria Kazimirova

  • Comparison of Manual Mapping and Automated Object-Based Image Analysis of Non-Submerged Aquatic Vegetation from Very-High-Resolution UAS Images

    Eva Husson;Frauke Ecke;Heather Reese

  • Unmanned aircraft systems help to map aquatic vegetation

    Eva Husson;Olle Hagner;Frauke Ecke

  • Contrasting the roles of section length and instream habitat enhancement for river restoration success: a field study of 20 European restoration projects

    Daniel Hering;Jukka Aroviita;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen;Karel Brabec

  • A water level drawdown index for aquatic macrophytes in Nordic lakes

    Marit Mjelde;Seppo Hellsten;Frauke Ecke;Frauke Ecke

  • Documenting lemming population change in the Arctic: Can we detect trends?

    Dorothée Ehrich;Niels M. Schmidt;Gilles Gauthier;Ray Alisauskas

  • Declining ecosystem health and the dilution effect.

    Hussein Khalil;Frauke Ecke;Magnus Evander;Magnus Magnusson

  • Rewilding wetlands: beaver as agents of within-habitat heterogeneity and the responses of contrasting biota

    Nigel J. Willby;Alan Law;Oded Levanoni;Garth Foster

  • Temporal isotopic variations of dissolved silicon in a pristine boreal river

    Emma Engström;Ilia Rodushkin;Johan Ingri;Douglas C. Baxter

  • The applicability of macrophyte compositional metrics for assessing eutrophication in European lakes

    Agnieszka Kolada;Nigel Willby;Bernard J. Dudley;Peeter Nõges

  • Global patterns in the metacommunity structuring of lake macrophytes: regional variations and driving factors.

    Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Marja Lindholm;Claudia P. Bove;Eglantine Chappuis

  • Relative importance of plant uptake and plant associated denitrification for removal of nitrogen from mine drainage in sub-arctic wetlands.

    Sara Hallin;Maria Hellman;Maidul I. Choudhury;Frauke Ecke

  • Meta-analysis of environmental effects of beaver in relation to artificial dams

    Frauke Ecke;Oded Levanoni;Joachim Audet;Peter Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Birger Hörnfeldt
Birger Hörnfeldt Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Janne Alahuhta
Janne Alahuhta University of Oulu
Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Brendan G. McKie
Brendan G. McKie Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Nigel J. Willby
Nigel J. Willby University of Stirling
Heikki Henttonen
Heikki Henttonen Natural Resources Institute Finland
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Ilia Rodushkin
Ilia Rodushkin Luleå University of Technology
Johan Ingri
Johan Ingri Luleå University of Technology
Martin Søndergaard
Martin Søndergaard Aarhus University

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