Browsing by Author "Alatalo, Juha M"
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Collembola at three alpine subarctic sites resistant to twenty years of experimental warming
Alatalo, Juha M.; Jägerbrand, Annika K.; Čuchta, Peter ( Nature Publishing Group , 2015 , Article)This study examined the effects of micro-scale, site and 19 and 21 years of experimental warming on Collembola in three contrasting alpine subarctic plant communities (poor heath, rich meadow, wet meadow). Unexpectedly, ... -
Community and species-specific responses of plant traits to 23 years of experimental warming across subarctic tundra plant communities
Baruah, Gaurav; Molau, Ulf; Bai, Yang; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Nature Publishing Group , 2017 , Article)To improve understanding of how global warming may affect competitive interactions among plants, information on the responses of plant functional traits across species to long-term warming is needed. Here we report the ... -
Community perspectives on conservation of water sources in Tarkeshwar sacred groves, Himalaya, India
Jana, Purna; Pandey, Rajiv; Semeraro, Teodoro; Alatalo, Juha M.; Areteno, Roberta; Todaria, Nagendra P.; Tripathi, Ravi... more authors ... less authors ( IWA PUBLISHING , 2021 , Article)Sacred groves have significance in socio-culture and biodiversity conservation. This study evaluated local people's perceptions regarding conservation of sacred groves for water services, through willingness-to-pay (WTP), ... -
Comparing connection to theory in Bachelor's theses: Old research university versus new regional university college
Alatalo, Juha M. ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Article)Quality of higher education is often assumed to be linked to the size of the faculty. Therefore, this study tested the hypothesis whether Bachelor's theses in ecology at a large, old research university would have more ... -
A Comprehensive Literature Review on Cadmium (Cd) Status in the Soil Environment and Its Immobilization by Biochar-Based Materials
Ur Rahim, Hafeez; Akbar, Waqas Ali; Alatalo, Juha M. ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Cadmium, Cd(II) pollution of soils is a serious environmental and agricultural issue, posing a threat to crop production, environmental quality, food safety, and human health. Therefore, immobilization of Cd(II) in soils ... -
Correlations between socioeconomic drivers and indicators of urban expansion: Evidence from the heavily urbanised Shanghai metropolitan area, China
Li, Jinghui; Fang, Wei; Wang, Tao; Qureshi, Salman; Alatalo, Juha M.; Bai, Yang... more authors ... less authors ( MDPI AG , 2017 , Article)Rapid urban expansion resulting in increased impervious surfaces causes a series of urban environmental problems, e.g., the urban heat island and urban forest fragmentation. Urban expansion is a serious threat to human ... -
Coupling phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) with inorganic phosphorus fertilizer improves mungbean (Vigna radiata) phosphorus acquisition, nitrogen fixation, and yield in alkaline-calcareous soil
Hamid, Khan; Akbar, Waqas Ali; Shah, Zahir; Rahim, Hafeez Ur; Taj, Ali; Alatalo, Juha.M.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)To overcome the problems associated with soil phosphorus (P) insolubility, soil inoculation with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) can be used. In a field experiment, we evaluated the efficacy of PSB in enhancing ... -
Cushion plants act as facilitators for soil microarthropods in high alpine Sweden
Ľuptáčik, P.; Ľuptáčik, Peter; Čuchta, Peter; Jakšová, Patrícia; Miklisová, Dana; Kováč, Ľubomír; Alatalo, Juha M.... more authors ... less authors ( Springer , 2021 , Article)Cushion plants can have positive impacts on plant richness in severe environments and possibly across trophic levels on arthropods, an under-studied topic. This study examined whether soil communities under cushions have ... -
The date palm microbiome: A review
Dana A., Abumaali; Al-Hadidi, Sara H.; Daly Yahia, Mohamed Nejib; Erfanian, Mohammad Bagher; Ahmed, Talaat A.; Alatalo, Juha M.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a significant crop grown in warm, tropical, and arid regions. The microorganisms associated with plants can have positive and negative effects on the growth and yield of crops. Thus, there ... -
Decomposition rate and stabilization across six tundra vegetation types exposed to >20 years of warming
Sarneel, Judith M.; Sundqvist, Maja K.; Molau, Ulf; Björkman, Mats P.; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)© 2020 The Authors Aims: Litter decomposition is an important driver of soil carbon and nutrient cycling in nutrient-limited Arctic ecosystems. However, climate change is expected to induce changes that directly or indirectly ... -
Decreased soil moisture due to warming drives phylogenetic diversity and community transitions in the tundra
Scharn, Ruud; Little, Chelsea J.; Bacon, Christine D.; Alatalo, Juha M.; Antonelli, Alexandre; Björkman, Mats P.; Molau, Ulf; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Björk, Robert G.... more authors ... less authors ( IOP Publishing , 2021 , Other)Global warming leads to drastic changes in the diversity and structure of Arctic plant communities. Studies of functional diversity within the Arctic tundra biome have improved our understanding of plant responses to ... -
Distribution, pollution, and human health risks of persistent and potentially toxic elements in the sediments around Hainan Island, China
Zhiwei, Che; Ahmed, Waqas; Weng, Jiechang; Wenjie, Liu; Mahmood, Mohsin; Alatalo, Juha M.; Wenjie, Ou; Nizamani, Mir Muhammad; Lu, Wang; Xian, Fu Xiu; Jie, Yang; Yunting, Wang; Li, Weidong; Mehmood, Sajid... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Human activities have changed the global concentration of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and significantly altered the marine ecosystem. Little is known about the concentrations of these PTEs around Hainan Island in ... -
Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and its chemical drivers across dryland habitats
Adenan, Sakeenah; Oja, Jane; Alatalo, Juha M.; Shraim, Amjad M.; Alsafran, Mohammed; Tedersoo, Leho; Zobel, Martin; Ahmed, Talaat... more authors ... less authors ( Springer , 2021 , Article)Qatar is largely characterized by a hyper-arid climate and low soil fertility which create a stressful soil environment for arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. In a study of AM fungal communities and their relationship with ... -
Diversity of benthic macrofauna and physical parameters of sediments in natural mangroves and in afforested mangroves three decades after compensatory planting
Al‑Khayat, Jassim A.; Abdulla, Maryam A.; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Springer , 2018 , Article)Mangroves in the Arabian Gulf are under pressure from land use change, leading to compensatory planting at sites without natural mangroves. In this study, we examine the potential long-term success of this form of ... -
Diversity-productivity dependent resistance of an alpine plant community to different climate change scenarios
Ali, Arshad; Molau, Ulf; Bai, Yang; Jagerbrand, Annika K.; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Springer Tokyo , 2016 , Article)Here we report from a experiment imposing different warming scenarios [control with ambient temperature, constant level of moderate warming for 3�years, stepwise increase in warming for 3�years, and one season of high level ... -
Ecosystem service supply and demand: Theory and management application
Bai, Yang; Wang, Min; Li, Hui; Huang, Shen Fa; Alatalo, Juha M. ( ACTA ECOLOGICA SINICA , 2017 , Article)Ecosvstem service is a very important issue for current, sustainable scientific research. Environmental protection and management requirements are increasing and policymakers hope to incorporate ecological service information ... -
Effects of ambient climate and three warming treatments on fruit production in an alpine, subarctic meadow community
Alatalo, Juha M.; Jägerbrand, Annika K.; Dai, Junhu; Mollazehi, Mohammad D.; Abdel-Salam, Abdel-Salam G.; Pandey, Rajiv; Molau, Ulf... more authors ... less authors ( Wiley , 2021 , Article)Premise Climate change is having major impacts on alpine and arctic regions, and inter‐annual variations in temperature are likely to increase. How increased climate variability will impact plant reproduction is ... -
Effects of Coupling Water and Fertilizer on Agronomic Traits, Sugar Content and Yield of Sugarcane in Guangxi, China
Wu, Weixiong; Fu, Wuxiang; Alatalo, Juha M.; Ma, Zhanxia; Bai, Yang ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)This work is a contribution to applied water and fertilizer coupling efforts aiming at increasing crop productivity on sugarcane plantations through the analysis of average cane yields obtained following main agronomic ... -
Effects of incorporating pine-woodchip biochar with reduced NP fertilizer on calcareous soil characteristics, organic carbon, NPK availability, and maize productivity
Akbar, Waqas Ali; Rahim, Hafeez Ur; Irfan, Muhammad; Alatalo, Juha M.; Mudasssir, Muhammad; Bundschuh, Jochen... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Purpose: One of the successful and sustainable methods to restore low-fertility soils over the past few decades has been the integrated effect of biochar made from various feedstocks and chemical fertilizers. However, the ... -
Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants
Collins, Courtney G.; Elmendorf, Sarah C.; Hollister, Robert D.; Henry, Greg H.R.; Clark, Karin; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Myers-Smith, Isla H.; Prevéy, Janet S.; Ashton, Isabel W.; Assmann, Jakob J.; Alatalo, Juha M.; Carbognani, Michele; Chisholm, Chelsea; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Forrester, Chiara; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Svala; Klanderud, Kari; Kopp, Christopher W.; Livensperger, Carolyn; Mauritz, Marguerite; May, Jeremy L.; Molau, Ulf; Oberbauer, Steven F.; Ogburn, Emily; Panchen, Zoe A.; Petraglia, Alessandro; Post, Eric; Rixen, Christian; Rodenhizer, Heidi; Schuur, Edward A.G.; Semenchuk, Philipp; Smith, Jane G.; Steltzer, Heidi; Totland, Ørjan; Walker, Marilyn D.; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Suding, Katharine N.... more authors ... less authors ( Nature Research , 2021 , Article)Rapid climate warming is altering Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystem structure and function, including shifts in plant phenology. While the advancement of green up and flowering are well-documented, it remains unclear ...