Browsing Biological & Environmental Sciences by Author "Alatalo, Juha"

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    • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes 

      Ika, Djukic; Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian; Schmidt, Inger Kappel; Larsen, Klaus Steenberg; Beier, Claus; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)
      Through litter decomposition enormous amounts of carbon is emitted to the atmosphere. Numerous large-scale decomposition experiments have been conducted focusing on this fundamental soil process in order to understand the ...

    • Impacts of urbanization on the distribution of heavy metals in soils along the Huangpu River, the drinking water source for Shanghai 

      Bai, Yang; Wang, Min; Peng, Chi; Alatalo, Juha ( Springer Berlin Heidelberg , 2015 , Article)
      We investigated the horizontal and vertical distribution of heavy metals (Hg, Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, As, Ni, and Cr) in soils in the water source protection zone for Shanghai to study the origins of these metals, their connections ...

    • Indicators for spatial–temporal comparisons of ecosystem service status between regions: A case study of the Taihu River Basin, China 

      Li, Jinghui; Jiang, Hongwei; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha; Li, Xin; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      With the development of ecological science, the demand to integrate ecosystem services into ecological management is increasing. Stakeholders are interested in comparing stocks and ability to supply ecosystem services in ...

    • New ecological redline policy (ERP) to secure ecosystem services in China 

      Bai, Yang; Jiang, Bo; Wang, Min; Li, Hui; Alatalo, Juha; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2015 , Article)
      China is facing huge environmental problems, with its current rapid rate of urbanization and industrial-ization causing biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and land resources degradation on a major scale.To overcome ...

    • Short-term herbivory has long-term consequences in warmed and ambient high Arctic tundra 

      Little, Chelsea J; Cutting, Helen; Alatalo, Juha; Cooper, Elisabeth J ( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2017 , Article)
      Climate change is occurring across the world, with effects varying by ecosystem and region but already occurring quickly in high-latitude and high-altitude regions. Biotic interactions are important in determining ecosystem ...