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Overview

Pirkko Kortelainen is affiliated with the Finnish Environment Institute in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work focuses on specific subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Water Science and Technology.

Main topics addressed in their research include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Key recent publications by Pirkko Kortelainen include:

  • Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services (2020) published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Drainage for forestry increases N, P and TOC export to boreal surface waters (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Rising methane emissions from boreal lakes due to increasing ice-free days (2020) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Stream Dissolved Organic Matter in Permafrost Regions Shows Surprising Compositional Similarities but Negative Priming and Nutrient Effects (2020) published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Potential impacts of a future Nordic bioeconomy on surface water quality (2020) published in AMBIO

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kortelainen include Jussi Vuorenmaa, Kristiina Vuorio, Ahti Lepistö, Antti Räike, and Adam S. Wymore.

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, AMBIO, Global Change Biology, and Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

Best Publications

  • Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget

    Jonathan J. Cole;Yves T. Prairie;Nina F. Caraco;William H. McDowell

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

    Peter A. Raymond;Jens Hartmann;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Sebastian Sobek

  • The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments

    J.A. Downing;Y.T. Prairie;J.J. Cole;C.M. Duarte

  • Sediment organic carbon burial in agriculturally eutrophic impoundments over the last century

    John A. Downing;John A. Downing;Jonathan J. Cole;Jack J. Middelburg;Robert G. Striegl

  • Patterns and regulation of dissolved organic carbon: An analysis of 7,500 widely distributed lakes

    Sebastian Sobek;Lars J. Tranvik;Yves T. Prairie;Pirkko Kortelainen

  • Global abundance and size distribution of streams and rivers

    John A. Downing;Jonathan J. Cole;Carlos A. Duarte;Jack J. Middelburg

  • Current Browning of Surface Waters Will Be Further Promoted by Wetter Climate

    Heleen A. de Wit;Salar Valinia;Gesa A Weyhenmeyer;Martyn N. Futter

  • Global change-driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition : Implications for food webs of northern lakes

    Irena F. Creed;Ann Kristin Bergström;Charles G. Trick;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Sediment respiration and lake trophic state are important predictors of large CO2 evasion from small boreal lakes

    Pirkko Kortelainen;Miitta Rantakari;Jari T. Huttunen;Tuija Mattsson

  • Export of DOM from boreal catchments : impacts of land use cover and climate

    Tuija Mattsson;Pirkko Kortelainen;Antti Räike

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

    Jani Heino;Janne Alahuhta;Luis Mauricio Bini;Yongjiu Cai

  • Content of Total Organic Carbon in Finnish Lakes and Its Relationship to Catchment Characteristics

    Pirkko Kortelainen

  • Controls on the export of C, N, P and Fe from undisturbed boreal catchments, Finland

    Pirkko Kortelainen;Tuija Mattsson;Leena Finér;Marketta Ahtiainen

  • Methane dynamics in different boreal lake types

    Sari Juutinen;Sari Juutinen;M Rantakari;P Kortelainen;J. T Huttunen

  • Carbon dioxide partial pressure and 13C content of north temperate and boreal lakes at spring ice melt

    Robert G. Striegl;Pirkko Kortelainen;Jeffrey P. Chanton;Kimberly P. Wickland

  • A large carbon pool and small sink in boreal Holocene lake sediments

    Pirkko Kortelainen;Hannu Pajunen;Miitta Rantakari;Matti Saarnisto

  • Export of dissolved organic matter in relation to land use along a European climatic gradient.

    Tuija Mattsson;Pirkko Kortelainen;Anker Laubel;Dylan Evans

  • Nitrogen processes in aquatic ecosystems

    P Durand;L Breuer;Penny J. Johnes;G Billen

  • Interannual variation and climatic regulation of the CO2 emission from large boreal lakes

    Miitta Rantakari;Pirkko Kortelainen

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Leena Finér
Leena Finér Natural Resources Institute Finland
Martin Forsius
Martin Forsius Finnish Environment Institute
Pertti J. Martikainen
Pertti J. Martikainen University of Eastern Finland
Sari Juutinen
Sari Juutinen University of Helsinki
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
David N. Thomas
David N. Thomas University of Helsinki
Sebastian Sobek
Sebastian Sobek Uppsala University
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University
Yves T. Prairie
Yves T. Prairie University of Quebec at Montreal

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