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Overview

Janne S. Kotiaho is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science with a concentration on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Insect Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Economics and Econometrics.

They have contributed extensively to topics including Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Environmental Conservation and Management, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Environmental Philosophy and Ethics.

Notable recent publications by Kotiaho include:

  • Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences, 2020, Nature Communications
  • How to halt the global decline of lands, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Planetary well-being, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Three ways to deliver a net positive impact with biodiversity offsets, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • The Living Planet Index does not measure abundance, 2022, Nature

Frequent co-authors of Kotiaho include Maiju Peura, Sami El Geneidy, Elina Oksanen, Minna Pappila, and Merja Elo.

Their work has been published in venues such as Suomen Luontopaneelin julkaisuja, JYU Reports, Alue ja Ympäristö, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and AMBIO.

Best Publications

  • Genic capture and resolving the lek paradox

    Joseph L. Tomkins;Jacek Radwan;Janne S. Kotiaho;Tom Tregenza

  • Costs of sexual traits: a mismatch between theoretical considerations and empirical evidence.

    Janne S. Kotiaho

  • Predicting the risk of extinction from shared ecological characteristics

    Janne S. Kotiaho;Veijo Kaitala;Atte Komonen;Jussi Päivinen

  • Towards a resolution of the lek paradox

    Janne S. Kotiaho;Janne S. Kotiaho;Leigh W. Simmons;Joseph L. Tomkins;Joseph L. Tomkins

  • Challenges of ecological restoration: Lessons from forests in northern Europe

    Panu Halme;Panu Halme;Katherine A. Allen;Ainārs Auniņš;Richard H.W. Bradshaw

  • Testing the assumptions of conditional handicap theory : costs and condition dependence of a sexually selected trait

    Janne S. Kotiaho

  • Energetic costs of size and sexual signalling in a wolf spider

    Janne S. Kotiaho;Rauno V. Alatalo;Johanna Mappes;Mogens G. Nielsen

  • Condition dependence of pheromones and immune function in the grain beetle Tenebrio molitor

    Markus J. Rantala;Raine Kortet;Janne S. Kotiaho;Anssi Vainikka

  • EVOLUTION OF EJACULATES: PATTERNS OF PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC VARIATION AND CONDITION DEPENDENCE IN SPERM COMPETITION TRAITS

    Leigh W. Simmons;Janne S. Kotiaho

  • Viability costs of condition-dependent sexual male display in a drumming wolf spider

    Johanna Mappes;Rauno V. Alatalo;Janne Kotiaho;Silja Parri

  • The Effects of Peatland Restoration on Water-Table Depth, Elemental Concentrations, and Vegetation: 10 Years of Changes

    Tuomas O. Haapalehto;Harri Vasander;Sinikka Jauhiainen;Teemu Tahvanainen

  • Graph-theoretic connectivity measures: what do they tell us about connectivity?

    A. Laita;J. S. Kotiaho;M. Mönkkönen

  • Rehabilitating boreal forest structure and species composition in Finland through logging, dead wood creation and fire: The EVO experiment

    I Vanha-Majamaa;Saara Lilja;Saara Lilja;Riitta Ryömä;Riitta Ryömä;J. S Kotiaho

  • Woodland key habitats in northern Europe: concepts, inventory and protection

    Jonna Timonen;Juha Siitonen;Lena Gustafsson;Janne S. Kotiaho

  • Longevity cost of reproduction for males but no longevity cost of mating or courtship for females in the male-dimorphic dung beetle Onthophagus binodis.

    Janne S. Kotiaho;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Summary for policymakers of the assessment report on land degradation and restoration of the Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Robert Scholes;Luca Montanarella;Anastasia Brainich;Nichole Barger

  • Conservation implications of species–genetic diversity correlations

    Aapo Olavi Kahilainen;Mikael Puurtinen;Janne S Kotiaho

  • Male mating success and risk of predation in a wolf spider: a balance between sexual and natural selection?

    Janne Kotiaho;Rauno V. Alatalo;Johanna Mappes;Silja Parri

  • COMPARING EVOLVABILITIES: COMMON ERRORS SURROUNDING THE CALCULATION AND USE OF COEFFICIENTS OF ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIATION

    Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez;Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez;Leigh W. Simmons;Joseph L. Tomkins;Janne S. Kotiaho

  • Mate choice or polyandry: reconciling genetic compatibility and good genes sexual selection

    Nick Colegrave;Janne S. Kotiaho;Joseph L. Tomkins

  • On the resolution of the lek paradox

    Janne S. Kotiaho;Natasha R. LeBas;Mikael Puurtinen;Joseph L. Tomkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
Joseph L. Tomkins
Joseph L. Tomkins University of Western Australia
Atte Moilanen
Atte Moilanen University of Helsinki
Johanna Mappes
Johanna Mappes University of Helsinki
Rauno V. Alatalo
Rauno V. Alatalo University of Jyväskylä
Leigh W. Simmons
Leigh W. Simmons University of Western Australia
Veijo Kaitala
Veijo Kaitala University of Helsinki
Pekka Punttila
Pekka Punttila Finnish Environment Institute
Jari Kouki
Jari Kouki University of Eastern Finland
Jukka Suhonen
Jukka Suhonen University of Turku

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