List of works - Risto Virtanen

A comparative analysis of metacommunity types in the freshwater realm

scientific article

Anthropogenic disturbance modifies long‐term changes of boreal mountain vegetation under contemporary climate warming

scientific article published in 2021

Anthropogenic habitat disturbance induces a major biodiversity change in habitat specialist bryophytes of boreal springs

article

Are biological classifications of headwater streams concordant across multiple taxonomic groups?

article published in 2003

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published in 2024

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

scientific article

Biodiversity differences between managed and unmanaged forests: meta-analysis of species richness in Europe.

scientific article

Bioenergy vs biodiversity: effects of intensive forest biomass removal on stream and riparian communities

article by M. C. Mlambo et al published 5 April 2015 in Forestry

Biotic interactions affect the elevational ranges of high-latitude plant species

article

Broad-scale vegetation-environment relationships in Eurasian high-latitude areas

Browsing-mediated shrub canopy changes drive composition and species richness in forest-tundra ecosystems

article

Bryophyte biomass and species richness on the Park Grass Experiment, Rothamsted, UK

scientific article published in 2000

Bryophyte diversity in Californian grasslands in relation to substrate quality, exotic vascular plants and disturbance

article

Changes in arctic vegetation on Jan Mayen Island over 19 and 80 years

Climate-induced warming imposes a threat to north European spring ecosystems.

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Community concordance between bryophyte and insect assemblages in boreal springs: a broad-scale study in isolated habitats

article

Comparing the responses of bryophytes and short-statured vascular plants to climate shifts and eutrophication

article

Compositional differentiation, vegetation-environment relationships and classification of willow-characterised vegetation in the western Eurasian Arctic

article

Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

scientific article published in 2023

Compromises in data selection in a meta-analysis of biodiversity in managed and unmanaged forests: response to Halme et al.

scientific article

Context dependency and metacommunity structuring in boreal headwater streams

scientific article published in 2011

Contrasting patterns in bryophyte and vascular plant species richness in relation to elevation, biomass and Soay sheep on St Kilda, Scotland

article

Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges

scientific article

Detecting restoration impacts in inter-connected habitats: Spring invertebrate communities in a restored wetland

article

Diaspore and shoot size as drivers of local, regional and global bryophyte distributions

article published in 2013

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

article

Dispersal ability links to cross-scale species diversity patterns across the Eurasian Arctic tundra

article

Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro- and microorganisms follow the same rules?

scientific article published in 2011

Does habitat restoration enhance spring biodiversity and ecosystem functions?

article

Does the taxonomic completeness of headwater stream assemblages reflect the conservation status of the riparian forest?

scientific article published in 2014

Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

Downstream impacts of peatland drainage on headwater stream biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2023

Dynamic effects of insect herbivory and climate on tundra shrub growth: Roles of browsing and ramet age

scientific article published in 2020

Effects of altitude and topography on species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in alpine communities

article

Effects of reindeer browsing on tundra willow and its associated insect herbivores

scholarly article by MICHAEL DEN HERDER et al published 30 September 2004 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Elements of metacommunity structure and community-environment relationships in stream organisms

Environmental perturbation, grazing pressure and soil wetness jointly drive mountain tundra toward divergent alternative states

scientific article published in 2014

European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

article

Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Expanding the ecological niche approach: Relationships between variability in niche position and species richness

article

Extrapolating multi-decadal plant community changes based on medium-term experiments can be risky: evidence from high-latitude tundra

article

Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity

scientific article published on 06 March 2021

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Geomorphological disturbance is necessary for predicting fine-scale species distributions

article

Global functional variation in alpine vegetation

scientific article published on 06 April 2021

Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

scientific article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Herbivory and nutrients shape grassland soil seed banks

scientific article published in 2023

Herbivory mediates the long-term shift in the relative importance of microsite and propagule limitation

scientific article published in 2016

Identifying taxonomic and functional surrogates for spring biodiversity conservation.

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Impact of shrub canopies on understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra

article published in 2011

Inclusion of local environmental conditions alters high-latitude vegetation change predictions based on bioclimatic models

article by Henna Sormunen et al published 1 February 2011 in Polar Biology

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

scientific article published on 21 January 2025

Land use impacts on stream community composition and concordance along a natural stress gradient

article

Legacy effects of logging on boreal forest understorey vegetation communities in decadal time scales in northern Finland

scholarly article by Lauralotta Muurinen et al published March 2019 in Forest Ecology and Management

Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity

scientific article published on 2 November 2022

Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Local and regional processes in low-productive mountain plant communities: the roles of seed and microsite limitation in relation to grazing

article

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

scientific article

Long-Term Experiments Reveal Strong Interactions Between Lemmings and Plants in the Fennoscandian Highland Tundra

article

Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands

scientific article published in January 2023

Long-term vegetation changes of treeless heath communities in northern Fennoscandia: Links to climate change trends and reindeer grazing

scholarly article by Tuija Maliniemi et al published 18 April 2018 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Long-term vegetation stability in northern Europe as assessed by changes in species co-occurrences

article

Metacommunity ecology meets biogeography: effects of geographical region, spatial dynamics and environmental filtering on community structure in aquatic organisms

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication

scientific article published in 2023

Multiple global change factors cause declines of a temperate bryophyte

scientific article published in 2024

Negative impact of leaf gallers on arctic-alpine dwarf willow, Salix herbacea

Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents

scientific article published in 2022

Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways

scientific article published on 18 January 2022

Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Open tundra persist, but arctic features decline-Vegetation changes in the warming Fennoscandian tundra.

scientific article

Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally

scientific article

Productivity-diversity patterns in arctic tundra vegetation

scientific article published in 2012

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

Recent vegetation changes at the high-latitude tree line ecotone are controlled by geomorphological disturbance, productivity and diversity

article

Red deer management and vegetation on the Isle of Rum

article by Risto Virtanen et al published 5 August 2002 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Regional and local drivers of macroinvertebrate assemblages in boreal springs

article

Reindeer herbivory reduces willow growth and grouse forage in a forest-tundra ecotone

scientific article published in 2008

Relationships between distribution and abundance vary with spatial scale and ecological group in stream bryophytes

Resource-enhancing global changes drive a whole-ecosystem shift to faster cycling but decrease diversity

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Responses of spring macroinvertebrate and bryophyte communities to habitat modification: community composition, species richness, and red-listed species

article

Rich-fen bryophytes in past and recent mire vegetation in a successional land uplift area

Searching for biodiversity indicators in running waters: do bryophytes, macroinvertebrates, and fish show congruent diversity patterns?

scholarly article by Jani Heino et al published February 2005 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Site fertility drives temporal turnover of vegetation at high latitudes

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

Soil and decomposer responses to grazing exclusion are weak in mountain snow-beds

article

Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?

scientific article

Spatial scale affects community concordance among fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates, and bryophytes in streams

scientific article published in February 2006

Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Species richness-standing crop relationship in stream bryophyte communities: patterns across multiple scales

article

Spring bryophytes in forested landscapes: Land use effects on bryophyte species richness, community structure and persistence

article

Surveying biodiversity in protected and managed areas: Algae, macrophytes and macroinvertebrates in boreal forest streams

scientific article published in 2009

Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity

scientific article published in 2021

Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants

scientific article published on 9 July 2020

The colonial legacy of herbaria

scholarly article published in 2021

The colonial legacy of herbaria

article published 12 June 2023

The effects of habitat connectivity on cryptogam richness in boulder metacommunity

The effects of reindeer grazing on the composition and species richness of vegetation in forest–tundra ecotone

article

The impact of thermal seasonality on terrestrial endotherm food web dynamics: a revision of the Exploitation Ecosystem Hypothesis

scientific article published in 2020

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

The potential of multispectral imaging flow cytometry for environmental monitoring

The regional species richness and genetic diversity of Arctic vegetation reflect both past glaciations and current climate

scientific article published in 2016

The stream as a habitat templet for bryophytes: species' distributions along gradients in disturbance and substratum heterogeneity

article

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

scientific article

Vole?vegetation interactions in an experimental, enemy free taiga floor system

scientific article published in 2007

What if plant functional types conceal species-specific responses to environment? Study on arctic shrub communities

scientific article published on 19 March 2017

Where do the treeless tundra areas of northern highlands fit in the global biome system: toward an ecologically natural subdivision of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published on 5 August 2024

Willow bud and shoot foraging by ptarmigan in relation to snow level in NW Finnish Lapland

Woodland key habitats and stream biodiversity: Does small-scale terrestrial conservation enhance the protection of stream biota?

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

article

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

List of works by Risto Virtanen

A comparative analysis of metacommunity types in the freshwater realm

Anthropogenic disturbance modifies long‐term changes of boreal mountain vegetation under contemporary climate warming

Anthropogenic habitat disturbance induces a major biodiversity change in habitat specialist bryophytes of boreal springs

Are biological classifications of headwater streams concordant across multiple taxonomic groups?

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

Biodiversity differences between managed and unmanaged forests: meta-analysis of species richness in Europe.

Bioenergy vs biodiversity: effects of intensive forest biomass removal on stream and riparian communities

Biotic interactions affect the elevational ranges of high-latitude plant species

Broad-scale vegetation-environment relationships in Eurasian high-latitude areas

Browsing-mediated shrub canopy changes drive composition and species richness in forest-tundra ecosystems

Bryophyte biomass and species richness on the Park Grass Experiment, Rothamsted, UK

Bryophyte diversity in Californian grasslands in relation to substrate quality, exotic vascular plants and disturbance

Changes in arctic vegetation on Jan Mayen Island over 19 and 80 years

Climate-induced warming imposes a threat to north European spring ecosystems.

Community concordance between bryophyte and insect assemblages in boreal springs: a broad-scale study in isolated habitats

Comparing the responses of bryophytes and short-statured vascular plants to climate shifts and eutrophication

Compositional differentiation, vegetation-environment relationships and classification of willow-characterised vegetation in the western Eurasian Arctic

Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

Compromises in data selection in a meta-analysis of biodiversity in managed and unmanaged forests: response to Halme et al.

Context dependency and metacommunity structuring in boreal headwater streams

Contrasting patterns in bryophyte and vascular plant species richness in relation to elevation, biomass and Soay sheep on St Kilda, Scotland

Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges

Detecting restoration impacts in inter-connected habitats: Spring invertebrate communities in a restored wetland

Diaspore and shoot size as drivers of local, regional and global bryophyte distributions

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

Dispersal ability links to cross-scale species diversity patterns across the Eurasian Arctic tundra

Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro- and microorganisms follow the same rules?

Does habitat restoration enhance spring biodiversity and ecosystem functions?

Does the taxonomic completeness of headwater stream assemblages reflect the conservation status of the riparian forest?

Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

Downstream impacts of peatland drainage on headwater stream biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Dynamic effects of insect herbivory and climate on tundra shrub growth: Roles of browsing and ramet age

Effects of altitude and topography on species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in alpine communities

Effects of reindeer browsing on tundra willow and its associated insect herbivores

Elements of metacommunity structure and community-environment relationships in stream organisms

Environmental perturbation, grazing pressure and soil wetness jointly drive mountain tundra toward divergent alternative states

European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity

Expanding the ecological niche approach: Relationships between variability in niche position and species richness

Extrapolating multi-decadal plant community changes based on medium-term experiments can be risky: evidence from high-latitude tundra

Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

Geomorphological disturbance is necessary for predicting fine-scale species distributions

Global functional variation in alpine vegetation

Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties

Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Herbivory and nutrients shape grassland soil seed banks

Herbivory mediates the long-term shift in the relative importance of microsite and propagule limitation

Identifying taxonomic and functional surrogates for spring biodiversity conservation.

Impact of shrub canopies on understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra

Inclusion of local environmental conditions alters high-latitude vegetation change predictions based on bioclimatic models

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

Land use impacts on stream community composition and concordance along a natural stress gradient

Legacy effects of logging on boreal forest understorey vegetation communities in decadal time scales in northern Finland

Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity

Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment

Local and regional processes in low-productive mountain plant communities: the roles of seed and microsite limitation in relation to grazing

Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

Long-Term Experiments Reveal Strong Interactions Between Lemmings and Plants in the Fennoscandian Highland Tundra

Long-term N-addition alters the community structure of functionally important N-cycling soil microorganisms across global grasslands

Long-term vegetation changes of treeless heath communities in northern Fennoscandia: Links to climate change trends and reindeer grazing

Long-term vegetation stability in northern Europe as assessed by changes in species co-occurrences

Metacommunity ecology meets biogeography: effects of geographical region, spatial dynamics and environmental filtering on community structure in aquatic organisms

Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication

Multiple global change factors cause declines of a temperate bryophyte

Negative impact of leaf gallers on arctic-alpine dwarf willow, Salix herbacea

Nitrogen but not phosphorus addition affects symbiotic N2 fixation by legumes in natural and semi-natural grasslands located on four continents

Nutrients and herbivores impact grassland stability across spatial scales through different pathways

Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory

Open tundra persist, but arctic features decline-Vegetation changes in the warming Fennoscandian tundra.

Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and nondominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally

Productivity-diversity patterns in arctic tundra vegetation

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

Recent vegetation changes at the high-latitude tree line ecotone are controlled by geomorphological disturbance, productivity and diversity