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Juha M. Alatalo

Juha M. Alatalo

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
13221
World Ranking
4176
National Ranking
2

Overview

Juha M. Alatalo is affiliated with Qatar University in Qatar and has an extensive background in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Climate change and permafrost, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Juha M. Alatalo has contributed to a range of academic journals, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Arctic Science
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications

Several recent papers authored or coauthored by Alatalo include:

  • "Global maps of soil temperature," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Scale effects on the relationships between land characteristics and ecosystem services- a case study in Taihu Lake Basin, China," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Impacts of rural tourism-driven land use change on ecosystems services provision in Erhai Lake Basin, China," 2020, Ecosystem Services

Frequent collaborators within their body of work include Yang Bai, Talaat Ahmed, Isabel C. Barrio, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, and Ulf Molau.

Best Publications

  • Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome

    Marilyn D Walker;C Henrik Wahren;Robert D Hollister;Greg H R Henry

  • RESPONSES OF TUNDRA PLANTS TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING:META‐ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TUNDRA EXPERIMENT

    A. M. Arft;M. D. Walker;J. Gurevitch;J. M. Alatalo

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass?

    J. H.C. Cornelissen;J. H.C. Cornelissen;T. V. Callaghan;J. M. Alatalo;A. Michelsen

  • Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Peter M. van Bodegom;Rien Aerts;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Sustainable livelihood framework-based indicators for assessing climate change vulnerability and adaptation for Himalayan communities

    Rajiv Pandey;Shashidhar Kumar Jha;Juha M. Alatalo;Kelli M. Archie

  • Quantifying ecosystem services supply and demand shortfalls and mismatches for management optimisation.

    Junyu Chen;Bo Jiang;Yang Bai;Xibao Xu

  • New ecological redline policy (ERP) to secure ecosystem services in China

    Yang Bai;Bo Jiang;Min Wang;Hui Li

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    John Davison;Mari Moora;Marina Semchenko;Marina Semchenko;Sakeenah Binte Adenan

  • Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

    Kevin R. Wilcox;Andrew T. Tredennick;Sally E. Koerner;Emily Grman

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

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  • Indicators for spatial–temporal comparisons of ecosystem service status between regions: A case study of the Taihu River Basin, China

    Jinghui Li;Hongwei Jiang;Yang Bai;Juha M. Alatalo

  • Responses of subarctic-alpine plant communities to simulated environmental change : Biodiversity of bryophytes, lichens, and vascular plants

    U Molau;Juha Alatalo

  • Scale effects on the relationships between land characteristics and ecosystem services- a case study in Taihu Lake Basin, China.

    Yang Bai;Yuanyuan Chen;Juha M. Alatalo;Zhangqian Yang

  • Impacts of rural tourism-driven land use change on ecosystems services provision in Erhai Lake Basin, China.

    Jinghui Li;Yang Bai;Yang Bai;Juha M. Alatalo;Juha M. Alatalo

  • Effects of temperature and date of snowmelt on growth, reproduction, and flowering phenology in the arctic/alpine herb, Ranunculus glacialis.

    Ørjan Totland;Juha M. Alatalo

  • China’s ecological civilization program–Implementing ecological redline policy

    Bo Jiang;Yang Bai;Christina P. Wong;Xibao Xu

  • Assessing the vulnerability of socio-environmental systems to climate change along an altitude gradient in the Indian Himalayas

    Ajay K. Gupta;Mridula Negi;Subrata Nandy;Juha M. Alatalo;Juha M. Alatalo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Molau
Ulf Molau University of Gothenburg
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir
Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir University of Iceland
Anu Eskelinen
Anu Eskelinen University of Oulu
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Esther Lévesque
Esther Lévesque Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Robert D. Hollister
Robert D. Hollister Grand Valley State University
Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Robert G. Björk
Robert G. Björk University of Gothenburg

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