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Janne Alahuhta

Janne Alahuhta

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
4294
World Ranking
6962
National Ranking
116

Overview

Janne Alahuhta is affiliated with the University of Oulu in Finland, focusing on environmental science with a notable emphasis on ecology and related subfields. Their body of research includes 119 publications primarily in environmental science, with significant contributions to ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental chemistry. Other subfields covered by their work include ecological modeling and geology.

The main topics studied by Janne Alahuhta encompass ecology and vegetation dynamics, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, species distribution and climate change, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, geotourism and geoheritage conservation, fish ecology and management studies, and aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior.

The scientist has been involved in publishing research in several recurring venues. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Hydrobiologia, Journal of Ecology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

Recent notable publications by Janne Alahuhta include:

  • Macroecology of macrophytes in the freshwater realm: Patterns, mechanisms and implications, 2020, Aquatic Botany
  • Current climate overrides historical effects on species richness and range size of freshwater plants in Europe and North America, 2020, Journal of Ecology

Frequent coauthors in Janne Alahuhta's work comprise Jani Heino, Jorge García-Girón, Jan Hjort, Tuija Maliniemi, and Helena Tukiainen, each having collaborated on multiple publications.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a work published through the University of Eastern Finland titled Yhdistävä luonto: ekosysteemipalvelut Suomessa (2020).

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Metacommunity ecology meets biogeography: effects of geographical region, spatial dynamics and environmental filtering on community structure in aquatic organisms

    Jani Heino;Janne Soininen;Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Jyrki Lappalainen

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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  • Introducing accessibility analysis in mapping cultural ecosystem services

    Terhi Ala-Hulkko;Ossi Kotavaara;Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Pekka Helle

  • Climate change and the future distributions of aquatic macrophytes across boreal catchments

    Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Jani Heino;Miska Luoto

  • Integrating dispersal proxies in ecological and environmental research in the freshwater realm

    Jani Heino;Janne Alahuhta;Terhi Ala-Hulkko;Harri Antikainen

  • 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

  • Spatial extent, regional specificity and metacommunity structuring in lake macrophytes

    Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Jani Heino;Jani Heino

  • Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation

    Jorge García‐Girón;Jorge García‐Girón;Jani Heino;Francisco García‐Criado;Camino Fernández‐Aláez

  • A comparative analysis of metacommunity types in the freshwater realm

    Jani Heino;Janne Soininen;Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Jyrki Lappalainen

  • Environmental and spatial correlates of community composition, richness and status of boreal lake macrophytes

    Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Antti Kanninen;Seppo Hellsten;Kari-Matti Vuori

  • The role of geodiversity in providing ecosystem services at broad scales

    Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Terhi Ala-Hulkko;Helena Tukiainen;Laura Purola

  • Understanding environmental change through the lens of trait-based, functional, and phylogenetic biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems

    Janne Alahuhta;Tibor Erős;Olli-Matti Kärnä;Janne Soininen

  • Plant distribution patterns and plate tectonics in Malesia.

    P. C. van Welzen;J. W. F. Slik;J. Alahuhta;I. Friis

  • Response of macrophyte communities and status metrics to natural gradients and land use in boreal lakes

    Janne Alahuhta;Janne Alahuhta;Antti Kanninen;Kari-Matti Vuori

  • Mapping supply and demand of a provisioning ecosystem service across Europe

    Terhi Ala-Hulkko;Ossi Kotavaara;Janne Alahuhta;Jan Hjort

  • Geographic patterns of lake macrophyte communities and species richness at regional scale

    Janne Alahuhta

  • Macroecology of macrophytes in the freshwater realm: Patterns, mechanisms and implications

    Janne Alahuhta;Marja Lindholm;Lars Baastrup-Spohr;Jorge García-Girón;Jorge García-Girón

  • Species sorting determines variation in the community composition of common and rare macrophytes at various spatial extents

    Janne Alahuhta;Lucinda B. Johnson;Jennifer Olker;Jani Heino

  • Elements of regional beetle faunas: faunal variation and compositional breakpoints along climate, land cover and geographical gradients

    Jani Heino;Janne Alahuhta

  • Predicting beta diversity of terrestrial and aquatic beetles using ecogeographical variables: insights from the replacement and richness difference components

    Jani Heino;Janne Alahuhta;Simone Fattorini;Dénes Schmera

  • Plant Diversity and Complexity Patterns Local, Regional and Global Dimensions

    P. C. van Welzen;J. W. F. Slik;J. Alahuhta

Frequent Co-Authors

Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Jan Hjort
Jan Hjort University of Oulu
Frauke Ecke
Frauke Ecke University of Helsinki
Lucinda B. Johnson
Lucinda B. Johnson University of Minnesota, Duluth
Janne Soininen
Janne Soininen University of Helsinki
Kimmo T. Tolonen
Kimmo T. Tolonen Finnish Environment Institute
Sarian Kosten
Sarian Kosten Radboud University
Aveliina Helm
Aveliina Helm University of Tartu
Lars Iversen
Lars Iversen Aarhus University Hospital
Patrick Grillas
Patrick Grillas Tour du Valat

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