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Overview

Joanna Norkko is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and conducts research chiefly in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses primarily on oceanography and ecology, with additional study areas including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and parasitology.

Their research topics cover a range of marine and environmental subjects such as marine biology and ecology research, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine and coastal plant biology, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Frequent coauthors include Alf Norkko, Noora Haavisto, Jyri Seppälä, Kristian Spilling, and Eero Asmala. These collaborators have contributed to multiple joint publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Publication venues where Joanna Norkko has appeared regularly include Frontiers in Marine Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Science of The Total Environment, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, and Limnology and Oceanography. This distribution of venues reflects an interdisciplinary approach spanning marine science, environmental monitoring, and ecological studies.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Joanna Norkko are:

  • Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland, 2020, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • Benthic-pelagic coupling and trophic relationships in northern Baltic Sea food webs, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network for Genetic Monitoring of Hard-Bottom Communities (ARMS-MBON), 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Potential links between Baltic Sea submarine terraces and groundwater seeping, 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Seasonal Variability in Benthic-Pelagic Coupling: Quantifying Organic Matter Inputs to the Seafloor and Benthic Macrofauna Using a Multi-Marker Approach, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • Feeding type affects microplastic ingestion in a coastal invertebrate community.

    Outi Setälä;Joanna Norkko;Maiju Lehtiniemi

  • Drifting algal mats as an alternative habitat for benthic invertebrates: Species specific responses to a transient resource.

    Joanna Norkko;Erik Bonsdorff;Alf Norkko

  • Forecasting the limits of resilience: integrating empirical research with theory.

    Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Paul K. Dayton;Giovanni Coco

  • Size matters: implications of the loss of large individuals for ecosystem function

    Alf Norkko;Alf Norkko;Anna Villnäs;Joanna Norkko;Sebastian Valanko;Sebastian Valanko

  • A welcome can of worms? Hypoxia mitigation by an invasive species

    Joanna Norkko;Joanna Norkko;Daniel C. Reed;Daniel C. Reed;Karen Timmermann;Alf Norkko;Alf Norkko

  • Hypoxia in the Baltic Sea: Biogeochemical Cycles, Benthic Fauna, and Management

    Jacob Carstensen;Daniel J. Conley;Erik Bonsdorff;Bo G. Gustafsson

  • Ocean acidification at high latitudes: potential effects on functioning of the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica.

    Vonda Cummings;Judi Hewitt;Anthony Van Rooyen;Kim Currie

  • Smothering of estuarine sandflats by terrigenous clay: the role of wind-wave disturbance and bioturbation in site-dependent macrofaunal recovery

    Alf Norkko;Simon F. Thrush;Judi E. Hewitt;Vonda J. Cummings

  • Consequences of increasing hypoxic disturbance on benthic communities and ecosystem functioning.

    Anna Villnäs;Anna Villnäs;Anna Villnäs;Joanna Norkko;Kaarina Lukkari;Judi Hewitt

  • Trophic structure of coastal Antarctic food webs associated with changes in sea ice and food supply.

    A. Norkko;S. F. Thrush;V. J. Cummings;M. M. Gibbs

  • The role of recurrent disturbances for ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Anna Villnäs;Anna Villnäs;Anna Villnäs;Joanna Norkko;Susanna Hietanen;Alf B. Josefson

  • Intermittent bioirrigation and oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments: An experimental and modeling study of three tellinid bivalves

    Nils Volkenborn;Christof Meile;Lubos Polerecky;Conrad A. Pilditch

  • Effects of food availability and hypoxia on bivalves: the value of using multiple parameters to measure bivalve condition in environmental studies

    J. Norkko;C. A. Pilditch;S. F. Thrush;R. M. G. Wells

  • High Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Methane From the Coastal Baltic Sea at the End of a Summer Heat Wave

    Christoph Humborg;Christoph Humborg;Marc Christoph Geibel;Xiaole Sun;Michelle McCrackin

  • Seafloor Ecosystem Function Relationships: In Situ Patterns of Change Across Gradients of Increasing Hypoxic Stress

    Joanna Norkko;Joanna Norkko;Joanna Norkko;Johanna Gammal;Judi E. Hewitt;Alf B. Josefson

  • Coastal Hypoxia and the Importance of Benthic Macrofauna Communities for Ecosystem Functioning

    Johanna Gammal;Joanna Norkko;Conrad A. Pilditch;Alf Norkko;Alf Norkko

  • Effects of increased sedimentation on the physiology of two estuarine soft-sediment bivalves, Austrovenus stutchburyi and Paphies australis

    J. Norkko;J. Norkko;J.E. Hewitt;S.F. Thrush

  • Burial and decomposition of plant pigments in surface sediments of the Baltic Sea: role of oxygen and benthic fauna

    Alf B. Josefson;Joanna Norkko;Alf Norkko

  • Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland.

    Jani J. Sormunen;Tommi Andersson;Jouni Aspi;Jaana Bäck

  • Seasonal ecosystem metabolism across shallow benthic habitats measured by aquatic eddy covariance

    Karl M. Attard;Karl M. Attard;Iván F. Rodil;Iván F. Rodil;Ronnie N. Glud;Ronnie N. Glud;Peter Berg

  • Conditional responses to increasing scales of disturbance, and potential implications for threshold dynamics in soft-sediment communities

    Joanna Norkko;Alf Norkko;Simon F. Thrush;Sebastian Valanko

Frequent Co-Authors

Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Simon F. Thrush
Simon F. Thrush University of Auckland
Judi E. Hewitt
Judi E. Hewitt University of Auckland
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Bo G. Gustafsson
Bo G. Gustafsson Stockholm University
Erik Bonsdorff
Erik Bonsdorff Åbo Akademi University
Kai G. Schulz
Kai G. Schulz Southern Cross University
Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University
Vonda J. Cummings
Vonda J. Cummings National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Maiju Lehtiniemi
Maiju Lehtiniemi Finnish Environment Institute

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