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Ecology and Evolution
Finland
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
81
Citations
25603
World Ranking
792
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Otso Ovaskainen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with extensive work in several subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

The main topics covered in their research encompass Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Otso Ovaskainen include:

  • Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Distance decay 2.0 - A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Fungal communities decline with urbanization-more in air than in soil, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest, 2021, Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
  • Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea, 2020, New Phytologist

Otso Ovaskainen frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Nerea Abrego (59 joint publications)
  • Tomas Roslin (27 joint publications)
  • Panu Somervuo (25 joint publications)
  • Brendan Furneaux (17 joint publications)
  • Gleb Tikhonov (15 joint publications)

The primary publication venues where Ovaskainen's work has appeared include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 17 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13 publications
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution with 8 publications
  • Ecology with 5 publications
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution with 4 publications

Best Publications

  • Roots and associated fungi drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest.

    Karina Clemmensen;Adam Bahr;Otso Ovaskainen;Anders Dahlberg

  • The metapopulation capacity of a fragmented landscape

    Ilkka Hanski;Otso Ovaskainen

  • State-space models of individual animal movement.

    Toby A. Patterson;Toby A. Patterson;Len Thomas;Chris Wilcox;Otso Ovaskainen

  • 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

  • So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology.

    David I. Warton;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Robert B. O’Hara;Otso Ovaskainen;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Extinction Debt at Extinction Threshold

    Ilkka Hanski;Otso Ovaskainen

  • 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

  • Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

    Carolina Bello;Mauro Galetti;Marco A. Pizo;Luiz Fernando S. Magnago

  • Stochastic models of population extinction

    Otso Ovaskainen;Baruch Meerson

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

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

  • Metapopulation theory for fragmented landscapes.

    Ilkka Hanski;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Community-level phenological response to climate change

    Otso Ovaskainen;Svetlana Skorokhodova;Marina Yakovleva;Alexander Sukhov

  • Modeling species co‐occurrence by multivariate logistic regression generates new hypotheses on fungal interactions

    Otso Ovaskainen;Jenni Hottola;Jenni Hottola;Juha Siitonen

  • Specialist species of wood-inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests

    Jenni Nordén;Jenni Nordén;Reijo Penttilä;Juha Siitonen;Erkki Tomppo

  • Dispersal-related life-history trade-offs in a butterfly metapopulation

    Ilkka Hanski;Marjo Saastamoinen;Otso Ovaskainen

  • Spatially Structured Metapopulation Models: Global and Local Assessment of Metapopulation Capacity

    Otso Ovaskainen;Ilkka Hanski

  • Variation in migration propensity among individuals maintained by landscape structure

    Ilkka Hanski;Claudia Erälahti;Maaria Kankare;Otso Ovaskainen

  • HABITAT-SPECIFIC MOVEMENT PARAMETERS ESTIMATED USING MARK–RECAPTURE DATA AND A DIFFUSION MODEL

    Otso Ovaskainen

  • Making more out of sparse data: hierarchical modeling of species communities

    Otso Ovaskainen;Janne Soininen

  • Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences.

    R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov;Martin Ryberg

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Nerea Abrego
Nerea Abrego University of Jyväskylä
Ilkka Hanski
Ilkka Hanski University of Helsinki
Tomas Roslin
Tomas Roslin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Eliezer Gurarie
Eliezer Gurarie SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Marjo Saastamoinen
Marjo Saastamoinen University of Helsinki
David B. Dunson
David B. Dunson Duke University
María del Mar Delgado
María del Mar Delgado Spanish National Research Council
Anna-Liisa Laine
Anna-Liisa Laine University of Helsinki
Mauro Galetti
Mauro Galetti Sao Paulo State University

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