List of peer-reviewed publications on macrophytes and freshwaters
Accepted/early view
2023
- Bando, F., Figueiredo, B.R.S., Moi, D.A., Thomaz, S.D., Michelan, T.S., García–Girón, J., Heino, J., Alahuhta, J., Romero, G.Q. & Mormul, R.P. 2023. Invasion by an exotic species drives biotic homogenization in native freshwater plant communities at intermediate spatial and temporal scales. Journal of Ecology 111: 799-813.
- García-Girón, J., Heino, J., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Clayton, J., de Winton, M., Feldmann, T., Fernández-Aláez, C., Ecke, F., Grillas, P., Hoyer., M.V., Kolada, A., Kosten, S., Lukács, B.A., Mjelde, M., Mormul, R.P., Rhazi, L., Rhazi, M., Sass, L., Xu, J. & Alahuhta, J. 2023. Compositional breakpoints of freshwater plant communities across continents. Limnetica 42: 291-301.
- García-Girón, J., Bini, L.M. & Heino, J. 2023. Shortfalls in our understanding of the causes and consequences of functional and phylogenetic variation of freshwater communities across continents. Biological Conservation 282: 110082.
- Graco-Roza, C., Aarnio, S., Abrego, N., Acosta, A.T.R., Alahuhta, J., Altman, J., Angiolini, C., Aroviita, J., Attorre, F., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Barrera-Alba, J.-J., Belmaker, J., Biurrun, I., Bonari, G., Bruelheide, H., Burrascano, S., Carboni, M., Cardoso, P., Carvalho, J.C., Castaldelli, G., Christensen, M., Correa, G., Dembicz, I., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Domingos, P., Erös, T., Ferreira, C.E.L., Filibeck, G., Floeter, S.R., Friedlander, A., Gammal, J., Gavioli, A., Gossner, M.M., Granot, I., Guarino, R., Gustafsson, C., Hayden, B., He, S., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Heino, J., Hunter, J.T., de Moraes Huszar, V.L., Janišová, M., Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola, J., Kahilainen, K., Kemppinen, J., Kozub, L., Kruk, C., Kulbiki, M., Kuzemko, A., le Roux, P.C., Lehikoinen, A., Teixeira de Lima, D., Lopes-Urrutia, A., Lukács, B.A., Luoto, M., Mammola, S., Marinho, M.M., da Silva Menezes, L., Milardi, M., Miranda, M., Oliveira Moser, G.A., Mueller, J., Niittynen, P., Norkko, A., Nowak, A., Ometto, J.P., Ovaskainen, O., Overbeck, G.E., Siqueira Pacheco, F., Pajunen, V., Palpurina, S., Picazo, F., Prieto, J.A.C., Rodil, I.F., Sabatini, F.M., Salingré, S., de Sanctis, M., Segura, A.M., Sampaio da Silva, L.H., Stevanovic, Z.D., Swacha, G., Teittinen, A., Tolonen, K.T., Tsiripidis, I., Virta, L., Wang, B., Wang, J., Weisser, W., Xu, Y. & Soininen, J. 2023. Distance decay 2.0 – a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional decay in ecological communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31: 1399-1421.
- Heino, J., Toivanen, M. & Alahuhta, J. 2023. Deciphering land-use influences on boreal lakes to guide landscape planning. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 4: e12242.
- Pan, Y., García–Girón, J. & Iversen, L.L. 2023. Global change and plant-ecosystem functioning in freshwaters. Trends in Plant Science 28: 646-660.
2022
- Alahuhta, J. & Garcia-Giron, J. 2022. Patterns and mechanisms underlying ecoregion delineation in North American freshwater plants. Journal of Biogeography 49: 142-155.
- García–Girón, J., Lindholm, M., Heino, J., Toivonen, H. & Alahuhta, J. 2022. Historical contingency via priority effects counteracts environmental change on metacommunity dynamics across decades. Limnology & Oceanography 67: S38-S53.
2021
- Alahuhta, J., Lindholm, M., Baastrup-Spohr, L., García-Girón, J., Toivanen, M., Heino, J. & Murphy, K. 2021. Macroecology of plants in the freshwater realm: patterns, mechanisms and implications. Aquatic Botany 168: 103325.
- Bolpagni, R., Magrini, S., Coppi, A., Troìa, A., Alahuhta, J., Marit Mjelde, M. & Azzella, M.M. 2021. Isoëtes sabatina (Isoëtaceae, Lycopodiopsida): taxonomic distinctness and preliminary ecological insights. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 31: 2690-2696.
- García–Girón, J., Heino, J., Iversen, L.L., Helm, A. & Alahuhta, J. 2021. Rarity in freshwater plants across Europe and North America: Patterns, causes and future scenarios. Science of the Total Environment 786: 147491.
- Heino, J., Alahuhta, J., Bini, L.M., Cai, Y., Heiskanen, A.-S., Hellsten, S., Kortelainen, P., Kotamäki, N., Tolonen, K.T., Vihervaara, P., Vilmi. A. & Angeler, D.G. 2021. Lakes in the era of global change: moving beyond single-lake thinking in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Biological Reviews 96: 89-106.
- Lindholm, M., Alahuhta, J., Heino, J. & Toivonen, H. 2021. Temporal beta diversity of lake plants is determined by concomitant changes in environmental actors across decades. Journal of Ecology 109: 819-832.
- Mattilde Pozzobom, U., Lemes Landeiro, V., Tábatha da Silva Brito, M., Alahuhta, J. & Heino, J. 2021. Multiple facets of macrophyte beta diversity are shaped by environmental factors, directional spatial processes, and connectivity across tropical floodplain lakes in the dry season. Hydrobiologia 848: 3587-3602.
- Vieira, D.S., García-Girón, J., Heino, J., Toivanen, M., Helm, A. & Alahuhta, J. 2021. Little evidence of range size conservatism in freshwater plants. Journal of Biogeography 48: 1200-1212.
2020
- Alahuhta, J., Antikainen, H., Hjort, J., Helm, A. & Heino, J. 2020. Current climate overrides historical effects on species richness and range size patterns of freshwater plants in Europe and North America. Journal of Ecology 108: 1262-1275.
- Alahuhta, J., Rosbakh, S., Chepinoga, V. & Heino, J. 2020. Environmental determinants of lake macrophyte communities in Baikal Siberia. Aquatic Sciences 83: 39.
- Benito, X., Vilmi, A., Luethje, M., Carrevedo, M.-L., Lindholm, M. & Fritz, S.C. 2020. Spatial and temporal ecological uniqueness of Andean diatom communities are correlated with climate, geodiversity and long-term limnological change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 260.
- García-Girón, J., Heino, J., García-Criado, F., Fernández-Aláez, C. & Alahuhta, J. 2020. Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation. Ecography 43: 1180-1190.
- García-Girón, J., Heino, J., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Bove, C.P., Clayton, J., de Winton, M., Feldmann, T., Fernández-Aláez, M., Ecke, F., Grillas, P., Hoyer, M.V., Kolada, A., Kosten S., Lukács, B.A., Mjelde, M., Mormul, R.P., Rhazi, L., Rhazi, M., Sass, L., Xu, J. & Alahuhta, J. 2020. Global patterns and determinants of lake macrophyte taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity. Science of the Total Environment 723: 138021.
- García-Girón, J., Heino, J., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Clayton, J., de Winton, M., Feldmann, T., Fernández-Aláez, C., Ecke, F., Hoyer, M.V., Kolada, A., Kosten, A., Lukács, B.A., Mormul, R.P., Rhazi, L., Rhazi, M., Sass, L., Xu, J. & Alahuhta, J. 2020. Elements of lake macrophyte metacommunity structure: global variation and community-environment relationships. Limnology & Oceanography 65: 2883-2895.
- Gillard, M.B., Aroviita, J. & Alahuhta, J. 2020. Same species, same habitat preferences? The distribution of aquatic plants is not explained by the same predictors in lakes and streams. Freshwater Biology 65: 878-892.
- Lindholm, M., Alahuhta, J., Heino, J. & Toivonen, H. 2020. No biotic homogenisation across decades but consistent effects of landscape position and pH on macrophyte communities in boreal lakes. Ecography 43: 294-305.
- Lindholm, M., Alahuhta, J., Heino, J., Hjort, J. & Toivonen, H. 2020. Changes in the functional features of macrophyte communities and driving factors across a 70-year period. Hydrobiologia 847: 3811–3827.
2019
- Alahuhta, J., Erős, T., Kärnä, O.-M., Soininen, J., Wang, J. & Heino, J. 2019. Understanding environmental change through the lens of trait-based, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. Environmental Reviews 27: 263-273.
- García-Girón, J., Fernández-Aláez, C., Fernández-Aláez, M. & Alahuhta, J. Untangling the assembly of macrophyte metacommunities by means of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity patterns. Science of the Total Environment 693: 133616.
- Iversen, L. L., Winkel, A., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Hinke, A. B., Alahuhta, J., Baattrup-Pedersen, A., Birk, S., Brodersen, P., Chambers, P A., Ecke, F., Feldmann, T., Gebler, D., Heino, J., Jespersen, T S., Moe, S J., Riis, T., Sass, L., Vestergaard, O., Maberly, S C., Sand-Jensen, K., Pedersen, O. Catchment processes control the global species composition of freshwater plants. Science 366: 878-881.
- Toivanen, M., Hjort, J., Heino, J., Tukiainen, H., Aroviita, J. & Alahuhta, J. Is catchment geodiversity a useful surrogate of aquatic plant species richness? Journal of Biogeography 46: 1711-1722.
2018
- Alahuhta, J., Lindholm, M., Bove, C.P., Chappuis, E., Clayton, J., de Winton, M., Feldmann, T., Ecke, F., Gacia, E., Grillas, P., Hoyer, M.V., Johnson, L.B., Kolada, K., Kosten, S., Lauridsen, T., Lukács, B.A., Mjelde, M., Mormul, R.P., Rhazi, L., Rhazi, M., Sass, L., Søndergaard, M., Xu, J. & Heino, J. Global patterns in the metacommunity structuring of lake macrophytes: regional variations and driving factors. Oecologia 188: 1167-1182.
- Elo, M., Alahuhta, J., Kanninen, A., Meissner, K., Seppälä, K. & Mönkkönen, M. Environmental characteristics and anthropogenic impact jointly modify aquatic macrophyte species diversity. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 1001.
- Alahuhta, J., Hellsten, S., Kuoppala, M. & Riihimäki, J. 2018. Regional and local determinants of macrophyte community compositions in high-latitude lakes of Finland. Hydrobiologia 812: 99-114.
2017
- Alahuhta, J., Kosten, S., Akasaka, M., Auderset, D., Azzella, M., Bolpagni, R., Bove, C.P., Chambers, P.A., Chappuis, E., Ilg, C., Clayton, J., de Winston, M., Ecke, F., Gacia, E., Gecheva, G., Grillas, P., Hauxwell, J., Hellsten, H., Hjort, J., Hoyer, M.V., Kolada, K., Kuoppala, M., Lauridsen, T., Li, E.-H., Lukács, B.A., Mjelde, M., Mikulyuk, A., Mormul, R.P., Nishihiro, J., Oertli, B., Rhazi, L., Rhazi, M., Sass, L., Schranz, C., Søndergaard, M., Yamanouchi, T., Yu, Q., Wang, H., Willby, N., Zhang, X.-K., & Heino, J. 2017. Global variation in the beta diversity of lake macrophytes is driven by environmental heterogeneity rather than latitude. Journal of Biogeography 44: 1758-1769.
- Alahuhta, J., Toivanen, M., Hjort, J., Ecke, F., Johnson, L.B., Sass, L. & Heino, J. 2017. Species richness and taxonomic distinctness of lake macrophytes along environmental gradients in two continents. Freshwater Biology 62: 1194-1206.
- Alahuhta, J., Ecke, F., Johnson, L.B., Sass, L. & Heino, J. 2017. A comparative analysis reveals little evidence for niche conservatism in aquatic macrophytes among four areas on two continents. Oikos 126: 136-148.
- Alahuhta, J., Virtala, A., Hjort, J., Ecke, F., Johnson, L.B., Sass, L. & Heino, J. 2017. Average niche breadths of species in lake macrophyte communities respond to ecological gradients variably in four regions on two continents. Oecologia 184: 219-235.
- Beck, M.W. & Alahuhta, J. 2017. Ecological determinants of Potamogeton taxa in glacial lakes: assemblage composition, species richness, and species-level approach. Aquatic Sciences 79: 427-441.
- Heino, J., Soininen, J., Alahuhta, J., Lappalainen, J. & Virtanen, R. 2017. Metacommunity ecology meets biogeography: Effects of geographical region, spatial dynamics and environmental filtering on community structure in aquatic organisms. Oecologia 183: 121-137.
2016
- Alahuhta, J. & Aroviita, J. 2016. Quantifying the relative importance of natural variables, human disturbance and spatial processes in ecological status indicators of boreal lakes. Ecological Indicators 63: 240-248.
- Alahuhta, J., Halmetoja, J., Tukiainen, H. & Hjort, J. 2016. Importance of spatial scale in structuring emergent lake vegetation across environmental gradients and scales: GIS-based approach. Ecological Indicators 60: 1164-1172.
2015
- Heino, J., Soininen, J., Alahuhta, J., Lappalainen, J. & Virtanen, R. 2015. A comparative analysis of metacommunity types in the freshwater realm. Ecology and Evolution 5: 1525-1537.
- Alahuhta, J., Rääpysjärvi, J., Hellsten, S., Kuoppala, M. & Aroviita, J. 2015. Species sorting drives variation of boreal lake and river macrophyte communities. Community Ecology 16: 76-85.
- Alahuhta, J. 2015. Geographic patterns of lake macrophyte communities and species richness at regional scale. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 564-575.
2014
- Alahuhta, J., Johnson, L.B., Olker, J. & Heino, J. 2014. Species sorting determines variation in the community composition of common and rare macrophytes at various spatial extents. Ecological Complexity 20: 61-68.
- Alahuhta, J. Kanninen, A., Hellsten, S., Vuori, K.-M., Kuoppala, M. & Hämäläinen, H. 2014. Variable response of functional macrophyte groups to lake characteristics, land use and space: implications for bioassessment. Hydrobiologia 737: 201-214.
2013
- Alahuhta, J. Kanninen, A., Hellsten, S., Vuori, K.-M., Kuoppala, M. & Hämäläinen, H. 2013. Environmental and spatial correlates of community composition, richness and status of boreal lake macrophytes. Ecological Indicators 32: 172-181.
- Alahuhta, J. & Heino, J. 2013. Spatial extent, regional specificity and metacommunity structuring in lake macrophytes. Journal of Biogeography 40: 1572-1582.
2012
- Alahuhta, J., Kanninen, A. & Vuori K.-M. 2012. Response of macrophyte communities and status metrics to natural gradients and land use in boreal lakes. Aquatic Botany 103: 106-114.
2011
- Alahuhta, J., Heino, J. & Luoto, M. 2011. Climate change and the future distributions of aquatic macrophytes across boreal catchments. Journal of Biogeography 38: 383-393.
- Alahuhta, J., Vuori, K.-M. & Luoto, M. 2011. Land use, geomorphology and climate as environmental determinants of emergent aquatic macrophytes in boreal catchments. Boreal Environment Research 16:185-202.
2009
- Alahuhta, J., Vuori, K.-M., Hellsten, S., Järvinen, M., Olin, M., Palomäki, A. & Rask, M. 2009. Defining ecological status of small forest lakes using multiple biological quality elements and paleolimnological analysis. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 175: 203-216.