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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
91
Citations
25434
World Ranking
452
National Ranking
2

Jani Heino publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jani Heino sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 329 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Jani Heino D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jani Heino sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Jani Heino is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science, with a particular focus on freshwater ecosystems.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior

Heino's work covers various subfields of environmental science, notably:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change

Their frequent publication venues reflect a specialization in ecology and aquatic sciences and include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Aquatic Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Heino include:

  • Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services, 2020, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Characteristics, Main Impacts, and Stewardship of Natural and Artificial Freshwater Environments: Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation, 2020, Water
  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt, 2023, Nature
  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • DISPERSE, a trait database to assess the dispersal potential of European aquatic macroinvertebrates, 2020, Scientific Data

They collaborate frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Janne Alahuhta
  • Jorge García-Girón
  • Zhicai Xie
  • Zhengfei Li
  • Xiaoming Jiang

Best Publications

  • Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

    Jani Heino;Adriano S. Melo;Tadeu Siqueira;Janne Soininen

  • Climate change and freshwater biodiversity: detected patterns, future trends and adaptations in northern regions.

    Jani Heino;Jani Heino;Raimo Virkkala;Heikki Toivonen

  • A meta-analysis of nestedness and turnover components of beta diversity across organisms and ecosystems

    Janne Soininen;Jani Heino;Jianjun Wang

  • The role of dispersal in river network metacommunities: Patterns, processes, and pathways

    Jonathan D. Tonkin;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt;Debra S. Finn;Jani Heino

  • A macroecological perspective of diversity patterns in the freshwater realm

    Jani Heino;Jani Heino

  • Scale‐related patterns in the spatial and environmental components of stream macroinvertebrate assemblage variation

    Heikki Mykrä;Heikki Mykrä;Jani Heino;Timo Muotka;Timo Muotka

  • Characteristics, main impacts, and stewardship of natural and artificial freshwater environments: consequences for biodiversity conservation

    Marco Cantonati;Sandra Poikane;Catherine M. Pringle;Lawrence E. Stevens

  • Reconceptualising the beta diversity‐environmental heterogeneity relationship in running water systems

    Jani Heino;Adriano Sanches Melo;Luis M. Bini

  • Are indicator groups and cross-taxon congruence useful for predicting biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems?

    Jani Heino;Jani Heino

  • The importance of metacommunity ecology for environmental assessment research in the freshwater realm.

    Jani Heino;Jani Heino

  • Determinants of macroinvertebrate diversity in headwater streams: regional and local influences

    Jani Heino;Timo Muotka;Riku Paavola

  • Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

    Jani Heino;Janne Alahuhta;Luis Mauricio Bini;Yongjiu Cai

  • Are higher taxa adequate surrogates for species-level assemblage patterns and species richness in stream organisms?

    Jani Heino;Janne Soininen

  • The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt

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  • Lentic macroinvertebrate assemblage structure along gradients in spatial heterogeneity, habitat size and water chemistry.

    Jani Heino

  • Metacommunity structuring in stream networks: roles of dispersal mode, distance type, and regional environmental context

    Mira Grönroos;Mira Grönroos;Jani Heino;Jani Heino;Tadeu Siqueira;Victor L. Landeiro

  • Identifying the scales of variability in stream macroinvertebrate abundance, functional composition and assemblage structure

    Jani Heino;Pauliina Louhi;Timo Muotka;Timo Muotka

  • Nutrient enrichment modifies temperature-biodiversity relationships in large-scale field experiments

    Jianjun Wang;Feiyan Pan;Janne Soininen;Jani Heino

  • Towards understanding the organisation of metacommunities in highly dynamic ecological systems

    Thibault Datry;Núria Bonada;Jani Heino

  • Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research

    Dénes Schmera;Jani Heino;János Podani;János Podani;Tibor Erős

  • Context dependency and metacommunity structuring in boreal headwater streams

    Jani Heino;Mira Grönroos;Janne Soininen;Risto Virtanen

  • Functional biodiversity of macroinvertebrate assemblages along major ecological gradients of boreal headwater streams

    Jani Heino

  • A comparative analysis reveals weak relationships between ecological factors and beta diversity of stream insect metacommunities at two spatial levels.

    Jani Heino;Adriano Sanches Melo;Luis Mauricio Bini;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Janne Alahuhta
Janne Alahuhta University of Oulu
Janne Soininen
Janne Soininen University of Helsinki
Timo Muotka
Timo Muotka University of Oulu
Kimmo T. Tolonen
Kimmo T. Tolonen Finnish Environment Institute
Luis Mauricio Bini
Luis Mauricio Bini Universidade Federal de Goiás
Heikki Mykrä
Heikki Mykrä Finnish Environment Institute
Jan Hjort
Jan Hjort University of Oulu
Risto Virtanen
Risto Virtanen University of Oulu
Tadeu Siqueira
Tadeu Siqueira Sao Paulo State University
Adriano S. Melo
Adriano S. Melo Universidade Federal de Goiás

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