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Overview

Hanna Tuomisto is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses a diverse set of topics within ecology, biodiversity, and conservation.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of research focus on:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling

Primary topics covered in their publications are:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Among the recent papers published by Hanna Tuomisto are:

  • "The role of environmental filtering, geographic distance and dispersal barriers in shaping the turnover of plant and animal species in Amazonia" (2020), published in Biodiversity and Conservation
  • "Shifts in structural diversity of Amazonian forest edges detected using terrestrial laser scanning" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "The relative role of rivers, environmental heterogeneity and species traits in driving compositional changes in southeastern Amazonian bird assemblages" (2020), published in Biotropica
  • "Impacts of a large hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River (Brazil) on floodplain avifauna" (2021), published in Acta Amazonica
  • "Introducing a map of soil base cation concentration, an ecologically relevant GIS-layer for Amazonian forests" (2023), published in Geoderma Regional

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hanna Tuomisto include:

  • Gabriela Zuquim
  • Kalle Ruokolainen
  • Gabriel M. Moulatlet
  • Jasper Van Doninck
  • Tapani Hopkins

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Acta Amazonica
  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Biotropica

Best Publications

  • A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns

    Eric Schuettpelz;Harald Schneider;Alan R. Smith;Peter Hovenkamp

  • Dispersal, environment, and floristic variation of western Amazonian forests

    Hanna Tuomisto;Kalle Ruokolainen;Markku Yli-Halla

  • A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity

    Hanna Tuomisto

  • Does organic farming reduce environmental impacts?--a meta-analysis of European research.

    H.L. Tuomisto;I.D. Hodge;P. Riordan;D.W. Macdonald

  • DISSECTING THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL DATA AT MULTIPLE SCALES

    Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre;Carol Avois-Jacquet;Carol Avois-Jacquet;Hanna Tuomisto

  • Dissecting Amazonian Biodiversity

    Hanna Tuomisto;Kalle Ruokolainen;Risto Kalliola;Ari Linna

  • A consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity? Yes, it does exist

    Hanna Tuomisto

  • A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena

    Hanna Tuomisto

  • Analyzing or explaining beta diversity? Understanding the targets of different methods of analysis.

    Hanna Tuomisto;Kalle Ruokolainen

  • Floristic patterns along a 43-km long transect in an Amazonian rain forest

    Hanna Tuomisto;Kalle Ruokolainen;Melchor Aguilar;Abel Sarmiento

  • LINKING FLORISTIC PATTERNS WITH SOIL HETEROGENEITY AND SATELLITE IMAGERY IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA

    Hanna Tuomisto;Axel Dalberg Poulsen;Kalle Ruokolainen;Robbin C. Moran

  • Explaining variation in tropical plant community composition : influence of environmental and spatial data quality

    Mirkka M. Jones;Hanna Tuomisto;Daniel Borcard;Pierre Legendre

  • An updated consumer’s guide to evenness and related indices

    Hanna Tuomisto

  • Distribution of Pteridophyta and Melastomataceae along an edaphic gradient in an Amazonian rain forest

    Hanna Tuomisto;Kalle Ruokolainen

  • Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forests

    Kalle Ruokolainen;Hanna Tuomisto

  • Effects of mesoscale environmental heterogeneity and dispersal limitation on floristic variation in rain forest ferns

    Mirkka M. Jones;Hanna Tuomisto;David B. Clark;Paulo Olivas

  • Influence of edaphic specialization on pteridophyte distribution in neotropical rain forests.

    Hanna Tuomisto;Hanna Tuomisto;Axel Dalberg Poulsen;Axel Dalberg Poulsen

  • Geological control of floristic composition in Amazonian forests.

    Mark A. Higgins;Mark A. Higgins;Kalle Ruokolainen;Hanna Tuomisto;Nelly Llerena

  • Unearthing the role of biological diversity in soil health

    Howard Ferris;Hanna Tuomisto

  • Distribution and Diversity of Pteridophytes and Melastomataceae along Edaphic Gradients in Yasuní National Park, Ecuadorian Amazonia1

    Hanna Tuomisto;Kalle Ruokolainen;Axel Dalberg Poulsen;Robbin C. Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Kalle Ruokolainen
Kalle Ruokolainen Aarhus University
Flávia R. C. Costa
Flávia R. C. Costa National Institute of Amazonian Research
Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler University of Zurich
Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Dirk Nikolaus Karger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Henrik Balslev
Henrik Balslev Aarhus University
Robbin C. Moran
Robbin C. Moran New York Botanical Garden
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Carina Hoorn
Carina Hoorn University of Amsterdam
Dilce de Fátima Rossetti
Dilce de Fátima Rossetti National Institute for Space Research
Erkki Tomppo
Erkki Tomppo University of Helsinki

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