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Nerea Abrego is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Their research spans several key areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with 88 and 87 publications respectively. The work primarily addresses subfields such as Plant Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Lichen and fungal ecology

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities" (2022) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Fungal communities decline with urbanization-more in air than in soil" (2020) in The ISME Journal
  • "Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest" (2021) in Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • "Accounting for environmental variation in co-occurrence modelling reveals the importance of positive interactions in root-associated fungal communities" (2020) in Molecular Ecology
  • "Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects" (2023) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Frequent coauthors in Abrego's work include Otso Ovaskainen, Brendan Furneaux, Panu Somervuo, Tomas Roslin, and Otto Miettinen. These collaborations have contributed multiple publications reflecting intersections in ecology and environmental science.

Publication venues where Abrego frequently publishes are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software.

    Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen;Gleb Tikhonov;Anna Norberg;F. Guillaume Blanchet;F. Guillaume Blanchet

  • A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels

    Anna Norberg;Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Frederick R. Adler

  • Joint species distribution modelling with the r-package Hmsc.

    Gleb Tikhonov;Gleb Tikhonov;Øystein H. Opedal;Øystein H. Opedal;Nerea Abrego;Aleksi Lehikoinen

  • Using latent variable models to identify large networks of species‐to‐species associations at different spatial scales

    Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen;Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;Panu Halme;David Dunson

  • Using joint species distribution models for evaluating how species-to-species associations depend on the environmental context

    Gleb Tikhonov;Nerea Abrego;David Dunson;Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Interactions between soil- and dead wood-inhabiting fungal communities during the decay of Norway spruce logs

    Raisa Mäkipää;Tiina Rajala;Dmitry Schigel;Katja T Rinne

  • Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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  • Habitat fragmentation and species diversity in competitive communities.

    Joel Rybicki;Nerea Abrego;Otso Ovaskainen

  • How are species interactions structured in species-rich communities? A new method for analysing time-series data.

    Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen;Gleb Tikhonov;David Dunson;Vidar Grøtan

  • Measuring and predicting the influence of traits on the assembly processes of wood-inhabiting fungi

    Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;Anna Norberg;Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Variety of woody debris as the factor influencing wood-inhabiting fungal richness and assemblages: Is it a question of quantity or quality?

    N. Abrego;I. Salcedo

  • Fungal communities decline with urbanization-more in air than in soil.

    Nerea Abrego;Brittni Crosier;Panu Somervuo;Natalia Ivanova;Natalia Ivanova

  • Computationally efficient joint species distribution modeling of big spatial data

    Gleb Tikhonov;Gleb Tikhonov;Li Duan;Nerea Abrego;Graeme Newell

  • Give me a sample of air and I will tell which species are found from your region: Molecular identification of fungi from airborne spore samples

    Nerea Abrego;Veera Norros;Veera Norros;Panu Halme;Panu Somervuo

  • Joint Species Distribution Modelling: With Applications in R

    Otso Ovaskainen;Nerea Abrego

  • Protax-fungi: a web-based tool for probabilistic taxonomic placement of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences.

    Kessy Abarenkov;Panu Somervuo;R. Henrik Nilsson;Paul M. Kirk

  • Assessing changes in arthropod predator-prey interactions through DNA-based gut content analysis-variable environment, stable diet.

    Bernhard Eitzinger;Bernhard Eitzinger;Nerea Abrego;Dominique Gravel;Tea Huotari

  • Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest

    Marcelo Magioli;Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz;Adriano Garcia Chiarello;Mauro Galetti;Mauro Galetti

  • What can observational data reveal about metacommunity processes

    Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen;Joel Rybicki;Joel Rybicki;Nerea Abrego

  • Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects.

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  • Spatiotemporal snowmelt patterns within a high Arctic landscape, with implications for flora and fauna

    Tuomas Kankaanpää;Kirstine Skov;Nerea Abrego;Magnus Lund

  • Implications of reserve size and forest connectivity for the conservation of wood-inhabiting fungi in Europe

    Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;Claus Bässler;Morten Christensen;Jacob Heilmann-Clausen

  • Understanding the distribution of wood-inhabiting fungi in European beech reserves from species-specific habitat models

    Nerea Abrego;Morten Christensen;Claus Bässler;A. Martyn Ainsworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Otso Ovaskainen
Otso Ovaskainen University of Jyväskylä
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen University of Copenhagen
David B. Dunson
David B. Dunson Duke University
Niels Martin Schmidt
Niels Martin Schmidt Aarhus University
Milton Cezar Ribeiro
Milton Cezar Ribeiro Sao Paulo State University
Vidar Grøtan
Vidar Grøtan Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Aleksi Lehikoinen
Aleksi Lehikoinen University of Helsinki

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