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67
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16683
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1602
National Ranking
20

Overview

Janne Soininen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has a focused research career in Environmental Science with a specialization in Ecology. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to multiple subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Biomaterials.

The main topics in Soininen's research involve diverse ecological and environmental subjects, including:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

They have published extensively in several scientific venues, most notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 13 publications
  • Freshwater Biology with 9 publications
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography with 8 publications
  • The Science of The Total Environment with 6 publications
  • Ecography with 5 publications

Some recent papers representative of their research include:

  • "Ecological networks of dissolved organic matter and microorganisms under global change" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research" (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • "Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change" (2022, New Phytologist)
  • "Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities" (2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "Community size can affect the signals of ecological drift and niche selection on biodiversity" (2020, Ecology)

Soininen collaborates frequently with a network of researchers including Jianjun Wang, Jani Heino, Virpi Pajunen, Jenny Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola, and Miska Luoto, with which they have multiple co-authored papers.

Best Publications

  • The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities

    Janne Soininen;Robert McDonald;Helmut Hillebrand

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

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

  • Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

    Jianjun Wang;Ji Shen;Yucheng Wu;Chen Tu

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

    Janne Soininen;Jani Heino;Jianjun Wang

  • A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels

    Anna Norberg;Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Frederick R. Adler

  • Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro‐ and microorganisms follow the same rules?

    Anna Astorga;Jari Oksanen;Miska Luoto;Janne Soininen

  • A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF BETA DIVERSITY ACROSS ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS

    Janne Soininen;Jack J. Lennon;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Ecological networks of dissolved organic matter and microorganisms under global change

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

    Jani Heino;Janne Soininen

  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND SPATIAL CONTROL OF FRESHWATER DIATOMS—A REVIEW

    Janne Soininen

  • Benthic diatom communities in boreal streams: community structure in relation to environmental and spatial gradients

    Janne Soininen;Riku Paavola;Timo Muotka

  • A quantitative analysis of temporal turnover in aquatic species assemblages across ecosystems

    Jenni J. Korhonen;Janne Soininen;Helmut Hillebrand

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

    Jianjun Wang;Feiyan Pan;Janne Soininen;Jani Heino

  • Making more out of sparse data: hierarchical modeling of species communities

    Otso Ovaskainen;Janne Soininen

  • Context dependency and metacommunity structuring in boreal headwater streams

    Jani Heino;Mira Grönroos;Janne Soininen;Risto Virtanen

  • Contrasting patterns in elevational diversity between microorganisms and macroorganisms

    Jianjun Wang;Janne Soininen;Yong Zhang;Beixin Wang

  • Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change.

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  • A quantitative analysis of species sorting across organisms and ecosystems

    Janne Soininen

  • Global patterns and drivers of species and trait composition in diatoms

    Janne Soininen;Aurélien Jamoneau;Juliette Rosebery;Sophia I. Passy

  • A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research.

    Alain Maasri;Alain Maasri;Sonja C. Jähnig;Sonja C. Jähnig;Mihai C. Adamescu;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian

  • Geographical patterns of micro-organismal community structure: are diatoms ubiquitously distributed across boreal streams?

    Jani Heino;Luis Mauricio Bini;Satu Maaria Karjalainen;Heikki Mykrä

  • Toward More Integrated Ecosystem Research in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

    Janne Soininen;Pia Bartels;Jani Heino;Miska Luoto

  • Ecological status of some Finnish rivers evaluated using benthic diatom communities

    Pertti Eloranta;Janne Soininen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jani Heino
Jani Heino University of Oulu
Jianjun Wang
Jianjun Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Miska Luoto
Miska Luoto University of Helsinki
Kimmo T. Tolonen
Kimmo T. Tolonen Finnish Environment Institute
Timo Muotka
Timo Muotka University of Oulu
Luis Mauricio Bini
Luis Mauricio Bini Universidade Federal de Goiás
Risto Virtanen
Risto Virtanen University of Oulu
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Adriano S. Melo
Adriano S. Melo Universidade Federal de Goiás

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