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Ecology and Evolution
Estonia
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
13103
World Ranking
3574
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Estonia Leader Award

Overview

Tiina Nõges is affiliated with the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Estonia. Their research primarily addresses various aspects of environmental science with a strong focus on aquatic ecosystems.

Their publication record includes contributions across prominent fields such as Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these areas, the scientist has explored subfields like Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their research cover diverse elements of aquatic and marine ecology, including:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Nõges has coauthored numerous papers with various researchers. Frequent collaborators include Peeter Nõges, Fabien Cremona, Helen Agasild, Priit Zingel, and Erik Jeppesen.

Their work has been published in several research venues, notably:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Inland Waters
  • Toxins
  • Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive

Selected recent papers authored by or including Tiina Nõges are:

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world's large lakes (2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research)
  • Impact of nutrients and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a temperature gradient: A pan-European mesocosm experiment (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Patterns of CO2 concentration and inorganic carbon limitation of phytoplankton biomass in agriculturally eutrophic lakes (2020, Water Research)
  • Sustainable lake restoration: From challenges to solutions (2023, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water)

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • Warmer climates boost cyanobacterial dominance in shallow lakes

    Sarian Kosten;Sarian Kosten;Vera L. M. Huszar;Eloy Bécares;Luciana S. Costa

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems.

    Sebastian Birk;Daniel Chapman;Laurence Carvalho;Bryan M. Spears

  • Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity

    Erik Jeppesen;Sandra Brucet;Sandra Brucet;Luigi Naselli-Flores;Eva Papastergiadou

  • First Experiences in Mapping Lake Water Quality Parameters with Sentinel-2 MSI Imagery

    Kaire Toming;Tiit Kutser;Alo Laas;Margot Sepp

  • Zooplankton as indicators in lakes: a scientific-based plea for including zooplankton in the ecological quality assessment of lakes according to the European Water Framework Directive (WFD)

    Erik Jeppesen;Peeter Nõges;Thomas A. Davidson;Thomas A. Davidson;Juta Haberman

  • Ecology under lake ice

    Stephanie E. Hampton;Aaron W.E. Galloway;Stephen M. Powers;Ted Ozersky

  • The determination of ecological status in shallow lakes - a tested system (ECOFRAME) for implementation of the European Water Framework Directive

    Brian Moss;Deborah Stephen;Cristina Alvarez;Eloy Becares

  • Managing aquatic ecosystems and water resources under multiple stress — An introduction to the MARS project

    Daniel Hering;Laurence Carvalho;Christine Argillier;Meryem Beklioglu

  • Large-scale climatic signatures in lakes across Europe: a meta-analysis

    Thorsten Blenckner;Rita Adrian;David M. Livingstone;Eleanor Jennings

  • Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes

    Jean Philippe Jenny;Orlane Anneville;Fabien Arnaud;Yoann Baulaz

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • The role of climate in shaping zooplankton communities of shallow lakes

    M. Gyllström;L.-A. Hansson;E. Jeppesen;F. García Criado

  • Water level as the mediator between climate change and phytoplankton composition in a large shallow temperate lake

    Tiina Nõges;Peeter Nõges;Reet Laugaste

  • Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

    L. Carvalho;S. Poikane;A. Lyche Solheim;G. Phillips

  • Relationships between morphometry, geographic location and water quality parameters of European lakes

    Tiina Nõges

  • The effect of extreme water level decrease on hydrochemistry and phytoplankton in a shallow eutrophic lake

    Tiina Nõges;Peeter Nõges

  • Subfossil Cladocera in relation to contemporary environmental variables in 54 Pan‐European lakes

    Rikke Bjerring;Eloy Becares;Steven Declerck;Elisabeth M. Gross

  • Climate-related change in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. in: BACC Author Group, Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

    B. Smith;A. Aasa;R. Ahas;T. Blenckner

  • The impact of the changing climate on the thermal characteristics of lakes

    Lauri Arvola;Glen George;David M. Livingstone;Marko Järvinen

  • Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Jens Hartmann;Dag O. Hessen;Jiří Kopáček

  • The impact of the changing climate on the flux of dissolved organic carbon from catchments

    Eleanor Jennings;Marko Järvinen;Norman Allott;Lauri Arvola

Frequent Co-Authors

Peeter Nõges
Peeter Nõges Estonian University of Life Sciences
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz
Lauri Arvola
Lauri Arvola University of Helsinki
David M. Livingstone
David M. Livingstone Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Brian Moss
Brian Moss University of Liverpool
Thorsten Blenckner
Thorsten Blenckner Stockholm Resilience Centre
Lars-Anders Hansson
Lars-Anders Hansson Lund University

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