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

      Magioli, Marcelo; Ferraz, Katia M.P.M. de Barros; Chiarello, Adriano Garcia; Galetti, Mauro; Setz, Eleonore Z.F.; Paglia, Adriano Pereira; Abrego, Nerea; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar; Ovaskainen, Otso (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Land-use changes are a main driver of modifications in tropical ecosystems, leading to the loss of species and ecological traits and affecting key ecological functions. Although much attention has been given to predict the ...
    • Long-term shifts in water quality show scale-dependent bioindicator responses across Russia – Insights from 40 year-long bioindicator monitoring program 

      Ovaskainen, Otso; Weigel, Benjamin; Potyutko, Oleg; Buyvolov, Yury (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Scale-related assessment strategies are important contributions to successful ecosystem management. With varying impact of environmental drivers from local to regional scales, a focal task is to understand scale-dependent ...
    • Mathematical and simulation methods for deriving extinction thresholds in spatial and stochastic models of interacting agents 

      Ovaskainen, Otso; Somervuo, Panu; Finkelshtein, Dmitri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In ecology, one of the most fundamental questions relates to the persistence of populations, or conversely to the probability of their extinction. Deriving extinction thresholds and characterizing other critical phenomena ...
    • A molecular-based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland 

      Roslin, Tomas; Somervuo, Panu; Pentinsaari, Mikko; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Agda, Jireh; Ahlroth, Petri; Anttonen, Perttu; Aspi, Jouni; Blagoev, Gergin; Blanco, Santiago; Chan, Dean; Clayhills, Tom; deWaard, Jeremy; deWaard, Stephanie; Elliot, Tyler; Elo, Riikka; Haapala, Sami; Helve, Eero; Ilmonen, Jari; Hirvonen, Petri; Ho, Chris; Itämies, Juhani; Ivanov, Vladislav; Jakovlev, Jevgeni; Juslén, Aino; Jussila, Reijo; Kahanpää, Jere; Kaila, Lauri; Kaitila, Jari-Pekka; Kakko, Ari; Kakko, Iiro; Karhu, Ali; Karjalainen, Sami; Kjærandsen, Jostein; Koskinen, Janne; Laasonen, Erkki M.; Laasonen, Leena; Laine, Erkka; Lampila, Petri; Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie; Lu, Liuqiong; Lähteenaro, Meri; Majuri, Pekka; Malmberg, Sampsa; Manjunath, Ramya; Martikainen, Petri; Mattila, Jaakko; McKeown, Jaclyn; Metsälä, Petri; Miklasevskaja, Margarita; Miller, Meredith; Miskie, Renee; Muinonen, Arto; Mukkala, Veli-Matti; Naik, Suresh; Nikolova, Nadia; Nupponen, Kari; Ovaskainen, Otso; Österblad, Ika; Paasivirta, Lauri; Pajunen, Timo; Parkko, Petri; Paukkunen, Juho; Penttinen, Ritva; Perez, Kate; Pohjoismäki, Jaakko; Prosser, Sean; Raekunnas, Martti; Rahulan, Miduna; Rannisto, Meeri; Ratnasingham, Sujeevan; Raukko, Pekka; Rinne, Aki; Rintala, Teemu; Miranda Romo, Susana; Salmela, Jukka; Salokannel, Juha; Savolainen, Riitta; Schulman, Leif; Sihvonen, Pasi; Soliman, Dina; Sones, Jayme; Steinke, Claudia; Ståhls, Gunilla; Tabell, Jukka; Tiusanen, Mikko; Várkonyi, Gergely; Vesterinen, Eero J.; Viitanen, Esko; Vikberg, Veli; Viitasaari, Matti; Vilen, Jussi; Warne, Connor; Wei, Catherine; Winqvist, Kaj; Zakharov, Evgeny; Mutanen, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      To associate specimens identified by molecular characters to other biological knowledge, we need reference sequences annotated by Linnaean taxonomy. In this study, we (1) report the creation of a comprehensive reference ...
    • Monitoring Fungal Communities With the Global Spore Sampling Project 

      Ovaskainen, Otso; Abrego, Nerea; Somervuo, Panu; Palorinne, Isabella; Hardwick, Bess; Pitkänen, Juha-Matti; Andrew, Nigel R.; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Seibold, Sebastian; Vogt, Juliane; Zakharov, Evgeny V.; Hebert, Paul D. N.; Roslin, Tomas; Ivanova, Natalia V. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The kingdom Fungi is a megadiverse group represented in all ecosystem types. The global diversity and distribution of fungal taxa are poorly known, in part due to the limitations related to traditional fruit-body survey ...
    • Movement syndromes of a Neotropical frugivorous bat inhabiting heterogeneous landscapes in Brazil 

      Kerches-Rogeri, Patricia; Ramos, Danielle Leal; Siren, Jukka; de Oliveira Teles, Beatriz; Alves, Rafael Souza Cruz; Priante, Camila Fátima; Ribeiro, Milton Cezar; Araújo, Márcio Silva; Ovaskainen, Otso (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background There is growing evidence that individuals within populations can vary in both habitat use and movement behavior, but it is still not clear how these two relate to each other. The aim of this study was to ...
    • Predicting fish community responses to environmental policy targets 

      Deflem, Io S.; Bennetsen, Elina; Opedal, Øystein H.; Calboli, Federico C. F.; Ovaskainen, Otso; Van Thuyne, Gerlinde; Volckaert, Filip A. M.; Raeymaekers, Joost A. M. (Journal article, 2021)
      The European Union adopted the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000 to tackle the rapid degradation of freshwater systems. However, biological, hydromorphological, and physico-chemical water quality targets are ...
    • PROTAX-Sound: A probabilistic framework for automated animal sound identification 

      De Camargo, Ulisses Moliterno; Somervuo, Panu; Ovaskainen, Otso (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Autonomous audio recording is stimulating new field in bioacoustics, with a great promise for conducting cost-effective species surveys. One major current challenge is the lack of reliable classifiers capable of multi-species ...
    • Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape 

      Rocha, Ricardo; Ovaskainen, Otso; López-Baucells, Adrià; Farneda, Fábio Z.; Sampaio, Erica M.; Bobrowiec, Paulo E.D.; Cabeza, Mar; Palmeirim, Jorge M.; Meyer, Christoph F.J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Tropical forest loss and fragmentation are due to increase in coming decades. Understanding how matrix dynamics, especially secondary forest regrowth, can lessen fragmentation impacts is key to understanding species ...
    • Spatial Memory Drives Foraging Strategies of Wolves, but in Highly Individual Ways 

      Gurarie, Eliezer; Bracis, Chloe; Brilliantova, Angelina; Kojola, Ilpo; Suutarinen, Johanna; Ovaskainen, Otso; Potluri, Sriya; Fagan, William F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The ability of wild animals to navigate and survive in complex and dynamic environments depends on their ability to store relevant information and place it in a spatial context. Despite the centrality of spatial memory, ...
    • Spatiotemporal dynamics of avian communities 

      Sandal, Lisa (Doctoral thesis, 2023)
      Community ecology is the study of how different species interact with each other and their environment in a given habitat. In the face of rapid biodiversity loss, community ecology studies are more important than ever. ...
    • Understanding species interactions in the tropics: dynamics within and between trophic levels 

      Marjakangas, Emma-Liina (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:327, Doctoral thesis, 2019)
      Knowledge on how and why species interact with each other can provide invaluable insight into understanding the many-fold effects that the anthropogenic pressures have on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Multiple ...
    • What can observational data reveal about metacommunity processes? 

      Ovaskainen, Otso; Rybicki, Joel; Abrego, Nerea (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A key challenge for community ecology is to understand to what extent observational data can be used to infer the underlying community assembly processes. As different processes can lead to similar or even identical patterns, ...