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Overview

Jukka Laine is affiliated with the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Their research is primarily situated within Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, General Health Professions, Plant Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost

They have contributed to numerous publications, with a concentration in the venue Helda (University of Helsinki), alongside works published in Biogeosciences, Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)), Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive, and Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Recent publications by Jukka Laine include:

  • Heterotrophic soil respiration in forestry-drained peatlands, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Emission factors and their uncertainty for the exchange of CO2, CH4 and N2O in Finnish managed peatlands, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Greenhouse gas emissions from cultivated and abandoned organic croplands in Finland, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Soil greenhouse gas emissions from afforested organic soil croplands and cutaway peatlands, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Carbon dioxide exchange above a 30-year-old Scots pine plantation established on organic-soil cropland, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Kari Minkkinen, Timo Penttilä, Niko Silvan, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, and Jukka Alm.

Best Publications

  • Long-term effects of water level drawdown on the vegetation of drained pine mires in southern Finland

    Jukka Laine;H Vasander;R Laiho

  • Status and restoration of peatlands in northern Europe

    H. Vasander;E.-S. Tuittila;E. Lode;L. Lundin

  • Long-term effect of forest drainage on the peat carbon stores of pine mires in Finland

    Kari Minkkinen;Jukka Laine

  • Restored cut-away peatland as a sink for atmospheric CO2.

    Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Veli-Matti Komulainen;Harri Vasander;Jukka Laine

  • Carbon balance and radiative forcing of Finnish peatlands 1900–2100 – the impact of forestry drainage

    Kari Minkkinen;Riitta Korhonen;Ilkka Savolainen;Jukka Laine

  • Methane dynamics of a restored cut‐away peatland

    Eeva‐Stiina Tuittila;Veli‐Matti Komulainen;Harri Vasander;Hannu Nykänen

  • Dynamics of plant-mediated organic matter and nutrient cycling following water-level drawdown in boreal peatlands

    Raija Laiho;Raija Laiho;Harri Vasander;Timo Penttilä;Jukka Laine

  • A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Jukka Alm;Sue Bartlett

  • Post-drainage changes in vegetation composition and carbon balance in Lakkasuo mire, Central Finland

    Kari Minkkinen;Harri Vasander;Sinikka Jauhiainen;Marjut Karsisto

  • Restoration of drained peatlands in southern Finland: initial effects on vegetation change and CO2 balance

    Veli‐Matti Komulainen;Eeva‐Stiina Tuittila;Harri Vasander;Jukka Laine

  • Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane dynamics in boreal organic agricultural soils with different soil characteristics

    M. Maljanen;V.-M. Komulainen;J. Hytönen;P.J. Martikainen

  • Disentangling direct and indirect effects of water table drawdown on above and belowground plant litter decomposition: Consequences for accumulation of organic matter in boreal peatlands.

    Petra Straková;Petra Straková;Timo Penttilä;Jukka Laine;Raija Laiho

  • High-resolution reconstruction of wetness dynamics in a southern boreal raised bog, Finland, during the late Holocene: a quantitative approach

    Minna Väliranta;Atte Korhola;Heikki Seppä;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

  • Sensitivity of CO2 Exchange of Fen Ecosystem Components to Water Level Variation

    Terhi Riutta;Jukka Laine;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

  • Effects of short‐ and long‐term water‐level drawdown on the populations and activity of aerobic decomposers in a boreal peatland

    Krista Jaatinen;Hannu Fritze;Jukka Laine;Raija Laiho

  • Indirect regulation of heterotrophic peat soil respiration by water level via microbial community structure and temperature sensitivity

    Päivi Mäkiranta;Raija Laiho;Hannu Fritze;Jyrki Hytönen

  • CO2 exchange of a sedge fen in southern Finland—the impact of a drought period

    Mika Aurela;Terhi Riutta;Tuomas Laurila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen

  • Effect of water-level drawdown on global climatic warming: northern peatlands

    Laine J;Silvola J;Tolonen K;Alm J

  • Sensitivity of C sequestration in reintroduced Sphagnum to water-level variation in a cutaway peatland

    Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Harri Vasander;Jukka Laine

  • Spatial variation in plant community functions regulates carbon gas dynamics in a boreal fen ecosystem

    T. Riutta;J. Laine;M. Aurela;J. Rinne

  • Methanogen communities and Bacteria along an ecohydrological gradient in a northern raised bog complex.

    Heli Juottonen;Pierre E. Galand;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Jukka Laine;Jukka Laine

Frequent Co-Authors

Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila University of Eastern Finland
Harri Vasander
Harri Vasander University of Helsinki
Raija Laiho
Raija Laiho Natural Resources Institute Finland
Timo Penttilä
Timo Penttilä Natural Resources Institute Finland
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Pertti J. Martikainen
Pertti J. Martikainen University of Eastern Finland
Terhi Riutta
Terhi Riutta UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Eero Nikinmaa
Eero Nikinmaa University of Helsinki
Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute
Pasi Kolari
Pasi Kolari University of Helsinki

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