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Lauri Arvola is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has established a significant body of research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily addresses the dynamics of aquatic and marine ecosystems, environmental chemistry, and related subfields such as oceanography, atmospheric science, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's research spans multiple main and subfields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to environmental and aquatic studies. The main fields they contribute to include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these, their subfields of study incorporate:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Lauri Arvola's research covers several core topics of interest, emphasizing aquatic ecosystems and their responses to environmental variables. These topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Their publication record reflects contributions to a variety of journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Resources Research

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Arvola include:

  • "Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes" (2021, Nature)
  • "Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer" (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector" (2022, Geoscientific Model Development)
  • "Under-Ice Dissolved Oxygen and Metabolism Dynamics in a Shallow Lake: The Critical Role of Ice and Snow" (2021, Water Resources Research)
  • "Invertebrates are declining in boreal aquatic habitat: The effect of brownification?" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)

Lauri Arvola collaborates frequently with other researchers, with consistent co-authorship involving:

  • Martti Rask
  • Jussi Huotari
  • Shengnan Zhao
  • Tiina Tulonen
  • Sheng Zhang

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

    Stephen F. Jane;Stephen F. Jane;Gretchen J.A. Hansen;Benjamin M. Kraemer;Peter R. Leavitt;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • Temperature Effects Explain Continental Scale Distribution of Cyanobacterial Toxins

    Evanthia Mantzouki;Miquel Lürling;Jutta Fastner;Lisette de Senerpont Domis

  • Effects of weather-related episodic events in lakes: an analysis based on high frequency data.

    Eleanor Jennings;Stuart E. Jones;Lauri Arvola;Peter A. Staehr

  • Stratification strength and light climate explain variation in chlorophyll a at the continental scale in a European multilake survey in a heatwave summer

    Daphne Donis;Evanthia Mantzouki;Daniel F. McGinnis;Dominic Vachon;Dominic Vachon

  • Stable isotope analysis of zooplankton carbon nutrition in humic lakes

    Roger I. Jones;Jonathan Grey;D. Sleep;L. Arvola

  • Hypolimnetic phosphorus retrieval by diel vertical migrations of lake phytoplankton

    K. Salonen;R. I. Jones;L. Arvola

  • Experimental d13C evidence for a contribution of methane to pelagic food webs in lakes

    Paula Kankaala;Sami Taipale;Jonathan Grey;Eloni Sonninen

  • Effects of phosphorus and allochthonous humic matter enrichment on metabolic processes and community structure of plankton in a boreal lake (Lake Pääjärvi)

    Lauri Arvola;Paula Kankaala;Tiina Tulonen;Anne Ojala

  • The impact of the changing climate on the thermal characteristics of lakes

    Lauri Arvola;Glen George;David M. Livingstone;Marko Järvinen

  • Respiration of plankton in two small, polyhumic lakes

    K. Salonen;K. Kononen;L. Arvola

  • Carbon pools and fluxes in a chain of five boreal lakes: A dry and wet year comparison

    E Einola;Miitta Maria Rantakari;P Kankaala;P Kortelainen

  • A Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) for synthesising high–frequency sensor data for validation of deterministic ecological models

    David P. Hamilton;Cayelan C. Carey;Lauri Arvola;Peter Arzberger

  • Light penetration and some related characteristics in small forest lakes in Southern Finland: With 4 figures and 2 tables in the text

    Roger I. Jones;Lauri Arvola

  • Effects of different molecular weight fractions of dissolved organic matter on the growth of bacteria, algae and protozoa from a highly humic lake

    Tiina Valpuri Tulonen;Kalevi Salonen;Lauri Matti Juhani Arvola

  • Consequence of altered nitrogen cycles in the coupled human and ecological system under changing climate: The need for long-term and site-based research

    Hideaki Shibata;Christina Branquinho;William H. McDowell;Myron J. Mitchell

  • Concentrations of heavy metals in food web components of small, boreal lakes

    Tiina Tulonen;Mikael Pihlström;Lauri Arvola;Martti Rask

  • Methane efflux in relation to plant biomass and sediment characteristics in stands of three common emergent macrophytes in boreal mesoeutrophic lakes

    Paula Kankaala;Tiina Käki;Suvi Mäkelä;Anne Ojala

  • The impact of the changing climate on the flux of dissolved organic carbon from catchments

    Eleanor Jennings;Marko Järvinen;Norman Allott;Lauri Arvola

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula Kankaala
Paula Kankaala University of Eastern Finland
Anne Ojala
Anne Ojala University of Helsinki
Kalevi Salonen
Kalevi Salonen University of Helsinki
Matti Leppäranta
Matti Leppäranta University of Helsinki
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Tiina Nõges
Tiina Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Peeter Nõges
Peeter Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Donald C. Pierson
Donald C. Pierson Uppsala University
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz

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