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Markku Viitasalo is affiliated with the Finnish Environment Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work spans multiple main topics related to marine and coastal environments, including:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Elina Virtanen
  • Juho Lappalainen
  • Marco Nurmi
  • Atte Moilanen
  • Louise Forsblom

Viitasalo's recent papers cover topics on the Baltic Sea ecosystem, climate change, and spatial conservation. Selected publications include:

  • Global climate change and the Baltic Sea ecosystem: direct and indirect effects on species, communities and ecosystem functioning (2022), Earth System Dynamics
  • Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary (2022), Earth System Dynamics
  • Balancing profitability of energy production, societal impacts and biodiversity in offshore wind farm design (2022), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Marine connectivity in spatial conservation planning: analogues from the terrestrial realm (2020), Landscape Ecology
  • The Baltic Health Index (BHI): Assessing the social-ecological status of the Baltic Sea (2021), People and Nature

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including one published by TemaNord titled Blue Carbon Habitats - a comprehensive mapping of Nordic salt marshes for estimating Blue Carbon storage potential (2022).

Markku Viitasalo's work appears frequently in scientific venues such as:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • AMBIO
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Landscape Ecology

Best Publications

  • Internal Ecosystem Feedbacks Enhance Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria Blooms and Complicate Management in the Baltic Sea

    Emil Vahtera;Daniel J. Conley;Bo G. Gustafsson;Harri Kuosa

  • Prey switching behaviour in the planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa

    Thomas Kiørboe;Enric Saiz;Markku Viitasalo

  • Changes in northern Baltic zooplankton and herring nutrition from 1980s to 1990s: top-down and bottom-up processes at work

    Juha Flinkman;Eero Aro;Ilppo Vuorinen;Markku Viitasalo

  • How Essential Biodiversity Variables and remote sensing can help national biodiversity monitoring

    Petteri Vihervaara;Ari-Pekka Auvinen;Laura Mononen;Markus Törmä

  • Mesozooplankton dynamics in the northern Baltic Sea: implications of variations in hydrography and climate

    Markku Viitasalo;Ilppo Vuorinen;Soili Saesmaa

  • Proportion of copepod biomass declines with decreasing salinity in the Baltic Sea

    I. Vuorinen;J. Hänninen;M. Viitasalo;U. Helminen

  • Turbidity decreases anti-predator behaviour in pike larvae, Esox lucius

    Maiju Lehtiniemi;Maiju Lehtiniemi;Jonna Engström-Öst;Jonna Engström-Öst;Markku Viitasalo

  • Predation vulnerability of planktonic copepods:consequences of predator foraging strategies and prey sensory abilities

    Markku Viitasalo;Thomas Kiørboe;Juha Flinkman;Lars W. Pedersen

  • Ecosystem consequences of cyanobacteria in the northern Baltic Sea.

    Miina Karjalainen;Jonna Engström-Öst;Samuli Korpinen;Heikki Peltonen

  • Feeding interactions of the copepods Eurytemora affinis and Acartia bifilosa with the cyanobacteria Nodularia sp.

    J. Engstrom;Marja Koski;M. Viitasalo;M. Reinikainen

  • Reproduction and survival of the calanoid copepod Eurytemora affinis fed with toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria

    Marja Koski;J. Engstrom;M. Viitasalo

  • Long-term changes in Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) growth in the Gulf of Finland

    Sanna Rönkkönen;Evald Ojaveer;Tiit Raid;Markku Viitasalo

  • Food utilisation of pelagic mysids, Mysis mixta and M. relicta, during their growing season in the northern Baltic Sea

    M. Viherluoto;H. Kuosa;J. Flinkman;M. Viitasalo

  • Calanoid copepods feed and produce eggs in the presence of toxic cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena

    Jonna Engström-Öst;Markku Viitasalo;Sigrún Jónasdóttir;Sari Repka

  • Seasonal occurrence and hatching of calanoid eggs in sediments of the northern Baltic Sea

    Tarja Katajisto;Markku Viitasalo;Marja Koski

  • Mesozooplankton of the gulf of finland and northern Baltic proper a review of monitoring data

    Markku Viitasalo

  • Zooplanktivory in the Baltic sea: a comparison of prey selectivity by Clupea harengus and Mysis mixta, with reference to prey escape reactions

    Markku Viitasalo;Juha Flinkman;Maiju Viherluoto

  • Effects of climate change and agricultural adaptation on nutrient loading from Finnish catchments to the Baltic Sea

    Inese Huttunen;Heikki Lehtonen;Markus Huttunen;Vanamo Piirainen

  • Sedimentation of copepod fecal material in the coastal northern Baltic Sea: Where did all the pellets go?

    Markku Viitasalo;Mirja Rosenberg;Anna-Stiina Heiskanen;Marja Koski

  • Global climate change and the Baltic Sea ecosystem: direct and indirect effects on species, communities and ecosystem functioning

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  • Calanoid resting eggs in the Baltic Sea: implications for the population dynamics of Acartia bifilosa (Copepoda)

    M. Viitasalo

  • Effects of toxic and non-toxic cyanobacteria on grazing, zooplanktivory and survival of the mysid shrimp Mysis mixta

    Jonna Engström;Maiju Viherluoto;Markku Viitasalo

  • Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region: A Summary

    H. E. Markus Meier;H. E. Markus Meier;Madline Kniebusch;Christian Dieterich;Matthias Gröger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonna Engström-Öst
Jonna Engström-Öst Novia University of Applied Sciences
Maiju Lehtiniemi
Maiju Lehtiniemi Finnish Environment Institute
Alf Norkko
Alf Norkko University of Helsinki
Harri Kuosa
Harri Kuosa Finnish Environment Institute
Kaarina Sivonen
Kaarina Sivonen University of Helsinki
H. E. Markus Meier
H. E. Markus Meier Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Atte Moilanen
Atte Moilanen University of Helsinki
Sigrun Jonasdottir
Sigrun Jonasdottir Technical University of Denmark
Henn Ojaveer
Henn Ojaveer University of Tartu
Anna-Stiina Heiskanen
Anna-Stiina Heiskanen Finnish Environment Institute

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