List of works - Miska Luoto

A North European pollen–climate calibration set: analysing the climatic responses of a biological proxy using novel regression tree methods

article

A comparison of predictive methods in modelling the distribution of periglacial landforms in Finnish Lapland

scholarly article

A stable, genetically determined colour dimorphism in the dung beetleAphodius depressus: patterns and mechanisms

scientific article published in 2015

Abrupt high-latitude climate events and decoupled seasonal trends during the Eemian

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Anuran abundance and persistence in agricultural landscapes during a climatic extreme

Applying probabilistic projections of climate change with impact models: a case study for sub-arctic palsa mires in Fennoscandia

Arctic shrubification mediates the impacts of warming climate on changes to tundra vegetation

article

Arctic-alpine vegetation biomass is driven by fine-scale abiotic heterogeneity

Are drivers of microbial diatom distributions context dependent in human-impacted and pristine environments?

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Assessing spatial uncertainty in predictive geomorphological mapping: A multi-modelling approach

Assessing the vulnerability of European butterflies to climate change using multiple criteria

article by Risto K Heikkinen et al published 13 October 2009 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Bioclimatic atlas of the terrestrial Arctic

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

article

Biotic interactions boost spatial models of species richness

article

Biotic interactions drive species occurrence and richness in dynamic beach environments

scientific article published in 2013

Biotic interactions improve prediction of boreal bird distributions at macro-scales

scientific article published in 2007

Calibrating aquatic microfossil proxies with regression-tree ensembles: Cross-validation with modern chironomid and diatom data

scholarly article

Can Topographic Variation in Climate Buffer against Climate Change-Induced Population Declines in Northern Forest Birds?

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Can abundance of geomorphological features be predicted using presence–absence data?

scientific article published in 2008

Carnivore-livestock conflicts: determinants of wolf (Canis lupus) depredation on sheep farms in Finland

scholarly article by Salla Kaartinen et al published 30 May 2009 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Circumpolar permafrost maps and geohazard indices for near-future infrastructure risk assessments

scholarly article by Olli Karjalainen et al published 12 March 2019 in Scientific Data

Climate change and the future distributions of aquatic macrophytes across boreal catchments

Climate is an important driver for stream diatom distributions

article published in 2015

Competition mediates understorey species range shifts under climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities

scientific article published on 25 February 2021

Contrasting effects of biotic interactions on richness and distribution of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in an arctic–alpine landscape

article

Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Determinants of local species richness of diurnal Lepidoptera in boreal agricultural landscapes

article

Determinants of sediment properties and organic matter in beach and dune environments based on boosted regression trees

scientific article published in 2015

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 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in 2011

Distribution patterns of boreal marshland birds: modelling the relationships to land cover and climate

Does the interpolation accuracy of species distribution models come at the expense of transferability?

scientific article published in 2012

Downscaling of coarse-grained geomorphological data

scientific article published in 2007

Drivers of high-latitude plant diversity hotspots and their congruence

article

Earth surface processes drive the richness, composition and occurrence of plant species in an arctic-alpine environment

article

Effects of land cover and climate on species richness of butterflies in boreal agricultural landscapes

article

Environmental determinants of littoral paludification in boreal lakes

article

Estimating fractional cover of tundra vegetation at multiple scales using unmanned aerial systems and optical satellite data

article

Evaluation of consensus methods in predictive species distribution modelling

article by Mathieu Marmion et al published January 2009 in Diversity and Distributions

Exposing wind stress as a driver of fine‐scale variation in plant communities

scientific article published on 14 February 2021

Fine-grained climate velocities reveal vulnerability of protected areas to climate change

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests

ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

scientific article

Freshwater biodiversity at regional extent: determinants of macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness in headwater streams

scientific article published in 2011

From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

scientific article published on 3 June 2022

Generalized linear modelling in periglacial studies: terrain parameters and patterned ground

Geodiversity of high-latitude landscapes in northern Finland

scholarly article by Jan Hjort & Miska Luoto published February 2010 in Geomorphology

Geomorphological disturbance is necessary for predicting fine-scale species distributions

article

Geomorphological factors predict water quality in boreal rivers

scientific article published in 2014

Geomorphological processes shape plant community traits in the Arctic

scientific article published on 05 May 2022

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

High potential for loss of permafrost landforms in a changing climate

scholarly article by Olli Karjalainen et al published 6 October 2020 in Environmental Research Letters

Holocene fen–bog transitions, current status in Finland and future perspectives

scholarly article by Minna Väliranta et al published 5 October 2016 in The Holocene

Horizontal, but not vertical, biotic interactions affect fine-scale plant distribution patterns in a low-energy system

scientific article

Human population dynamics in Europe over the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article

Impact of biotic interactions on biodiversity varies across a landscape

Impacts of permafrost degradation on infrastructure

scientific article published in 2022

Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables

Inclusion of explicit measures of geodiversity improve biodiversity models in a boreal landscape

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

Inclusion of soil data improves the performance of bioclimatic envelope models for insect species distributions in temperate Europe

article by Nicolas Titeux et al published August 2009 in Journal of Biogeography

Incorporating dominant species as proxies for biotic interactions strengthens plant community models

article

Influence of patch size and connectivity on beach and dune species in land-uplift coasts

scientific article published in 2015

Integrating climate and local factors for geomorphological distribution models

scholarly article

Is catchment productivity a useful predictor of taxa richness in lake plankton communities?

scientific article

Landscape scale determinants of periglacial features in subarctic Finland: a grid-based modelling approach

scholarly article by Jan Hjort et al published 2007 in Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

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

scientific article

Loss of palsa mires in Europe and biological consequences

Lost at high latitudes: Arctic and endemic plants under threat as climate warms

article

Machine-learning based reconstructions of primary and secondary climate variables from North American and European fossil pollen data

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change

Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change

article

Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

scientific article published in 2023

Microrefugia: Not for everyone

scientific article

Modelling soil moisture in a high-latitude landscape using LiDAR and soil data

scholarly article

Modelling spatio‐temporal soil moisture dynamics in mountain tundra

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Modelling the distribution of palsas in Finnish Lapland with logistic regression and GIS

article published in 2002

Modelling the occurrence of threatened plant species in taiga landscapes: methodological and ecological perspectives

article

Modelling the spatial distribution of a threatened butterfly: Impacts of scale and statistical technique

article by Risto K Heikkinen et al published March 2007 in Landscape and Urban Planning

Models of Arctic-alpine refugia highlight importance of climate and local topography

Monthly microclimate models in a managed boreal forest landscape

scholarly article by Caroline Greiser et al published March 2018 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Multi-species richness of boreal agricultural landscapes: effects of climate, biotope, soil and geographical location

article

New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state and hydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere

scientific article published in 2022

New insights into butterfly-environment relationships using partitioning methods

scientific article published in October 2005

New insights into the environmental factors controlling the ground thermal regime across the Northern Hemisphere: a comparison between permafrost and non-permafrost areas

scholarly article by Olli Karjalainen et al published 28 February 2019 in The Cryosphere

Novel theoretical insights into geomorphic process-environment relationships using simulated response curves

scientific article published in 2011

Outcomes of biotic interactions are dependent on multiple environmental variables

Past climate-driven range shifts and population genetic diversity in arctic plants

article

Pelagic fish abundance in relation to regional environmental variation in the Gulf of Finland, northern Baltic Sea

scholarly article by Heikki Peltonen et al published 23 January 2007 in I C E S Journal of Marine Science

Plant species richness and persistence of rare plants in abandoned semi-natural grasslands in northern Europe

article

Plant traits poorly predict winner and loser shrub species in a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in 2023

Potential effects of climate change on the distribution of the common frogRana temporariaat its northern range margin

scholarly article by Lior Blank et al published December 2013 in Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Potential for extreme loss in high-latitude Earth surface processes due to climate change

scholarly article

Predictability in species distributions: a global analysis across organisms and ecosystems

scientific article published in 2014

Predicted insect diversity declines under climate change in an already impoverished region

article by Dirk Maes et al published 24 February 2010 in Journal of Insect Conservation

Predicting range expansion of the map butterfly in Northern Europe using bioclimatic models

article by Varpu Mitikka et al published 6 November 2007 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Predicting range shifts of northern bird species: Influence of modelling technique and topography

scientific article published in 2010

Primary succession, disturbance and productivity drive complex species richness patterns on land uplift beaches

Productivity, biodiversity, and pathogens influence the global hunter-gatherer population density

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Productivity-diversity patterns in arctic tundra vegetation

scientific article published in 2012

Projected large-scale range reductions of northern-boreal land bird species due to climate change

Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions

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

article

Reconstructing palaeoclimatic variables from fossil pollen using boosted regression trees: comparison and synthesis with other quantitative reconstruction methods

scholarly article

Recreation-induced changes in boreal bird communities in protected areas.

scientific article published on September 2010

Relationships between above‐ground plant traits and carbon cycling in tundra plant communities

scientific article published on 11 January 2022

Relative importance of habitat area, connectivity, management and local factors for vascular plants: spring ephemerals in boreal semi-natural grasslands

article

Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges

article

Revealing topoclimatic heterogeneity using meteorological station data

Scale matters–A multi-resolution study of the determinants of patterned ground activity in subarctic Finland

scholarly article by Miska Luoto & Jan Hjort published October 2006 in Geomorphology

Snow cover is a neglected driver of Arctic biodiversity loss

Snow information is required in subcontinental scale predictions of mountain plant distributions

scientific article published on 21 May 2021

Snow is an important control of plant community functional composition in oroarctic tundra

scientific article published on 14 September 2019

Soil moisture's underestimated role in climate change impact modelling in low-energy systems.

scientific article

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Some like it hot: microclimatic variation affects the abundance and movements of a critically endangered dung beetle

Spatial modelling of palsa mires in relation to climate in northern Europe

scientific article published in 2004

Spatial modelling of stream water quality along an urban–rural gradient

Species traits are associated with the quality of bioclimatic models

scientific article published in 2008

Species traits explain recent range shifts of Finnish butterflies

article

Statistical consensus methods for improving predictive geomorphology maps

Statistical modelling predicts almost complete loss of major periglacial processes in Northern Europe by 2100.

scientific article

Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO 2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

scientific article

Stochastic species distributions are driven by organism size

scientific article published in March 2013

Stream diatom assemblages as predictors of climate

article published in 2016

Successful translocation of the threatened Clouded Apollo butterfly (Parnassius mnemosyne) and metapopulation establishment in southern Finland

scholarly article by Mikko Kuussaari et al published October 2015 in Biological Conservation

Testing species distribution models across space and time: high latitude butterflies and recent warming

article

The current state of CO2 flux chamber studies in the Arctic tundra

The effect of summer drought on the predictability of local extinctions in a butterfly metapopulation

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

The effect of topography on arctic-alpine aboveground biomass and NDVI patterns

The effects of local, buffer zone and geographical variables on lake plankton metacommunities

article

The importance of biotic interactions for modelling species distributions under climate change

article

The importance of snow in species distribution models of arctic vegetation

scientific article published in 2017

The meso-scale drivers of temperature extremes in high-latitude Fennoscandia

The mossy north: an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in European bryophytes

scientific article

The need for large-scale distribution data to estimate regional changes in species richness under future climate change

article

The performance of state-of-the-art modelling techniques depends on geographical distribution of species

scientific article published in 2009

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

scientific article published in 2016

The relationships of plant species occupancy to niches and traits vary with spatial scale

scientific article published in 2023

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

The role of land cover in bioclimatic models depends on spatial resolution

scientific article published in 2006

The role of local and landscape level measures of greenness in modelling boreal plant species richness

article

Thermokarst ponds as indicators of the former distribution of palsas in Finnish Lapland

Threat spots and environmental determinants of red-listed plant, butterfly and bird species in boreal agricultural environments

article

Toward More Integrated Ecosystem Research in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments

Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

article

Unravelling direct and indirect effects of hierarchical factors driving microbial stream communities

article published in 2017

Urban expansion in Zanzibar City, Tanzania: Analyzing quantity, spatial patterns and effects of alternative planning approaches

scholarly article by Markus O. Kukkonen et al published February 2018 in Land Use Policy

Using summed individual species models and state-of-the-art modelling techniques to identify threatened plant species hotspots

article

Using unclassified continuous remote sensing data to improve distribution models of red-listed plant species

article

Vegetation Mediates Soil Temperature and Moisture in Arctic-Alpine Environments

article published in 2013

Warm summers and rich biotic communities during N-Hemisphere deglaciation

article

Water as a resource, stress and disturbance shaping tundra vegetation

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

What we use is not what we know: environmental predictors in plant distribution models

article

List of works by Miska Luoto

A North European pollen–climate calibration set: analysing the climatic responses of a biological proxy using novel regression tree methods

A comparison of predictive methods in modelling the distribution of periglacial landforms in Finnish Lapland

A stable, genetically determined colour dimorphism in the dung beetleAphodius depressus: patterns and mechanisms

Abrupt high-latitude climate events and decoupled seasonal trends during the Eemian

Anuran abundance and persistence in agricultural landscapes during a climatic extreme

Applying probabilistic projections of climate change with impact models: a case study for sub-arctic palsa mires in Fennoscandia

Arctic shrubification mediates the impacts of warming climate on changes to tundra vegetation

Arctic-alpine vegetation biomass is driven by fine-scale abiotic heterogeneity

Are drivers of microbial diatom distributions context dependent in human-impacted and pristine environments?

Assessing spatial uncertainty in predictive geomorphological mapping: A multi-modelling approach

Assessing the vulnerability of European butterflies to climate change using multiple criteria

Bioclimatic atlas of the terrestrial Arctic

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

Biotic interactions boost spatial models of species richness

Biotic interactions drive species occurrence and richness in dynamic beach environments

Biotic interactions improve prediction of boreal bird distributions at macro-scales

Calibrating aquatic microfossil proxies with regression-tree ensembles: Cross-validation with modern chironomid and diatom data

Can Topographic Variation in Climate Buffer against Climate Change-Induced Population Declines in Northern Forest Birds?

Can abundance of geomorphological features be predicted using presence–absence data?

Carnivore-livestock conflicts: determinants of wolf (Canis lupus) depredation on sheep farms in Finland

Circumpolar permafrost maps and geohazard indices for near-future infrastructure risk assessments

Climate change and the future distributions of aquatic macrophytes across boreal catchments

Climate is an important driver for stream diatom distributions

Competition mediates understorey species range shifts under climate change

Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities

Contrasting effects of biotic interactions on richness and distribution of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in an arctic–alpine landscape

Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

Determinants of local species richness of diurnal Lepidoptera in boreal agricultural landscapes

Determinants of sediment properties and organic matter in beach and dune environments based on boosted regression trees

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 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

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

Distribution patterns of boreal marshland birds: modelling the relationships to land cover and climate

Does the interpolation accuracy of species distribution models come at the expense of transferability?

Downscaling of coarse-grained geomorphological data

Drivers of high-latitude plant diversity hotspots and their congruence

Earth surface processes drive the richness, composition and occurrence of plant species in an arctic-alpine environment

Effects of land cover and climate on species richness of butterflies in boreal agricultural landscapes

Environmental determinants of littoral paludification in boreal lakes

Estimating fractional cover of tundra vegetation at multiple scales using unmanned aerial systems and optical satellite data

Evaluation of consensus methods in predictive species distribution modelling

Exposing wind stress as a driver of fine‐scale variation in plant communities

Fine-grained climate velocities reveal vulnerability of protected areas to climate change

Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions

ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests

ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

Freshwater biodiversity at regional extent: determinants of macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness in headwater streams

From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

Generalized linear modelling in periglacial studies: terrain parameters and patterned ground

Geodiversity of high-latitude landscapes in northern Finland

Geomorphological disturbance is necessary for predicting fine-scale species distributions

Geomorphological factors predict water quality in boreal rivers

Geomorphological processes shape plant community traits in the Arctic

Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

Global maps of soil temperature

High potential for loss of permafrost landforms in a changing climate

Holocene fen–bog transitions, current status in Finland and future perspectives

Horizontal, but not vertical, biotic interactions affect fine-scale plant distribution patterns in a low-energy system

Human population dynamics in Europe over the Last Glacial Maximum

Impact of biotic interactions on biodiversity varies across a landscape

Impacts of permafrost degradation on infrastructure

Improving forecasts of arctic-alpine refugia persistence with landscape-scale variables

Inclusion of explicit measures of geodiversity improve biodiversity models in a boreal landscape

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

Inclusion of soil data improves the performance of bioclimatic envelope models for insect species distributions in temperate Europe

Incorporating dominant species as proxies for biotic interactions strengthens plant community models

Influence of patch size and connectivity on beach and dune species in land-uplift coasts

Integrating climate and local factors for geomorphological distribution models

Is catchment productivity a useful predictor of taxa richness in lake plankton communities?

Landscape scale determinants of periglacial features in subarctic Finland: a grid-based modelling approach

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

Loss of palsa mires in Europe and biological consequences

Lost at high latitudes: Arctic and endemic plants under threat as climate warms

Machine-learning based reconstructions of primary and secondary climate variables from North American and European fossil pollen data

Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change

Methods and uncertainties in bioclimatic envelope modelling under climate change

Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

Microrefugia: Not for everyone