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Paula Kankaala is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research addresses multiple topics related to aquatic and environmental systems. Key areas of focus include:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Mercury Impact and Mitigation Studies

Paula Kankaala has contributed to a number of publications in well-regarded journals, with recent papers addressing different aspects of lake ecosystems and aquatic food webs. Selected recent publications include:

  • Increasing temperature and productivity change biomass, trophic pyramids and community-level omega-3 fatty acid content in subarctic lake food webs, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Nutritional quality of littoral macroinvertebrates and pelagic zooplankton in subarctic lakes, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Increasing concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids in browning boreal lakes is driven by nuisance alga Gonyostomum, 2020, Ecosphere
  • Fatty acid metabolism and modifications in Chironomus riparius, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Lake browning impacts community structure and essential fatty acid content of littoral invertebrates in boreal lakes, 2021, Hydrobiologia

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Ursula Strandberg
  • Sami J. Taipale
  • Jussi Vesterinen
  • Kimmo K. Kahilainen
  • Minna Hiltunen

Paula Kankaala's research outputs are regularly published in journals such as Limnology and Oceanography, Global Change Biology, Ecosphere, Hydrobiologia, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems

    Michael T. Brett;Stuart E. Bunn;Sudeep Chandra;Aaron W. E. Galloway

  • Methanotrophic activity in relation to methane efflux and total heterotrophic bacterial production in a stratified, humic, boreal lake

    Paula Kankaala;Jussi Huotari;Elina Peltomaa;Tuomo Saloranta

  • Lake eutrophication and brownification downgrade availability and transfer of essential fatty acids for human consumption.

    Sami Taipale;Sami Taipale;Sami Taipale;Kristiina Vuorio;U. Strandberg;K. K. Kahilainen

  • Oxidation, efflux, and isotopic fractionation of methane during autumnal turnover in a polyhumic, boreal lake

    Paula Kankaala;Sami Taipale;Hannu Nykänen;Roger I. Jones

  • Differing Daphnia magna assimilation efficiencies for terrestrial, bacterial, and algal carbon and fatty acids

    Sami J. Taipale;Michael T. Brett;Martin W. Hahn;Dominik Martin-Creuzburg

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

    Paula Kankaala;Sami Taipale;Jonathan Grey;Eloni Sonninen

  • The relative importance of algae and bacteria as food for Daphnia longispina (Cladocera) in a polyhumic lake

    Paula Kankaala

  • Carbon gas fluxes from a brown‐water and a clear‐water lake in the boreal zone during a summer with extreme rain events

    Anne Ojala;Jessica López Bellido;Tiina Tulonen;Paula Kankaala

  • 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

  • Spatial heterogeneity and lake morphology affect diffusive greenhouse gas emission estimates of lakes

    Johannes Cornelis Schilder;David Bastviken;Maarten Reinier van Hardenbroek;Paula Kankaala

  • Methane efflux from littoral vegetation stands of southern boreal lakes : An upscaled regional estimate

    Irina Bergström;Suvi Mäkelä;Paula Kankaala;Pirkko Kortelainen

  • 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

  • Selective transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acids from phytoplankton to planktivorous fish in large boreal lakes.

    Ursula Strandberg;Minna Hiltunen;Elli Jelkänen;Sami J. Taipale

  • WHOLE‐LAKE DISSOLVED INORGANIC 13C ADDITIONS REVEAL SEASONAL SHIFTS IN ZOOPLANKTON DIET

    Sami Taipale;Paula Kankaala;Marja Tiirola;Roger I. Jones

  • Temporal and spatial variation in methane emissions from a flooded transgression shore of a boreal lake

    Paula Kankaala;Anne Ojala;Tiina Käki

  • Lake-size dependent physical forcing drives carbon dioxide and methane effluxes from lakes in a boreal landscape

    Paula Kankaala;Jussi Huotari;Tiina Tulonen;Anne Ojala

  • Diet-specific biomarkers show that high-quality phytoplankton fuels herbivorous zooplankton in large boreal lakes

    Aaron W. E. Galloway;Aaron W. E. Galloway;Sami J. Taipale;Minna Hiltunen;Elina Peltomaa

  • Diel variation in methane emissions from stands of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. and Typha latifolia L. in a boreal lake

    Tiina Käki;Anne Ojala;Paula Kankaala

  • CO2 and CH4 fluxes during spring and autumn mixing periods in a boreal lake (Pääjärvi, southern Finland)

    Jessica López Bellido;Tiina Tulonen;Paula Kankaala;Anne Ojala

  • Seasonal shifts in the diet of lake zooplankton revealed by phospholipid fatty acid analysis

    Sami Taipale;Paula Kankaala;Heikki Hämäläinen;Roger I. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Ojala
Anne Ojala University of Helsinki
Sami J. Taipale
Sami J. Taipale University of Jyväskylä
Lauri Arvola
Lauri Arvola University of Helsinki
Hannu Nykänen
Hannu Nykänen University of Eastern Finland
Michael T. Brett
Michael T. Brett University of Washington
Kalevi Salonen
Kalevi Salonen University of Helsinki
Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel
Kimmo K. Kahilainen
Kimmo K. Kahilainen University of Helsinki
David Bastviken
David Bastviken Linköping University
Pirkko Kortelainen
Pirkko Kortelainen Finnish Environment Institute

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