Otso Suominen
PhD
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otsosuo@utu.fi
+358 29 450 2333
+358 40 486 0282
Vesilinnantie 5
Turku
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Areas of expertise
Community ecology; ecological interactions; herbivory; biodiversity; arctic; cervids; gastropods; climate change impacts in the north
Research
The impacts of herbivores on boreal and arctic communities and ecosystems, deer biology, climate change imapcts in the norrthern boreal and arctic eocystems
Teaching
Subarctic ecology; winter ecology; grazing ecology
Publications
- Biotic interactions outweigh direct climate effects in shaping subarctic mountain birch ecosystem: Insights from four decades of integrated monitoring (2026) Poska, Anneli; Saarto, Annika; Reitalu, Triin; Vassiljev, Juri; Lisitsyna, Olga; Andersson, Tommi; Helenius, Pekka; Ruohomäki, Kai; Saarni, Saija; Saarinen, Timo; Suominen, Otso; Syvänperä, Ilkka; Vainio, Elina; Hicks, Sheila
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Emerging priorities in terrestrial herbivory research in the Arctic (2025) Barrio, Isabel C.; Vuorinen, Katariina E. M.; Barbero-Palacios, Laura; Defourneaux, Mathilde; Bon, Matteo Petit; Greer, Eleanor A.; Anderson, Helen B.; Horstkotte, Tim; Lecomte, Nicolas; Windirsch, Torben; Ferraro, Kristy; Forbes, Bruce C.; Forbey, Jennifer S.; Criado, Mariana Garcia; Hagenberg, Liyenne; Hik, David S.; Kater, Ilona; Macek, Petr; Moen, Jon; Sundqvist, Maja K.; Szejgis, Jerzy; Villoslada, Miguel; Zaja, Erica; Berthelot, Fanny; Bjornsdottir, Katrin; Cunow, Johannes; den Herder, Michael; Eskelinen, Anu; Hayes, Katherine; Hollister, Robert D.; Kolbrun i Haraldsstovu, Kolbrun; Jonsdottir, Ingibjorg Svala; Kristensen, Jeppe A.; Lameris, Thomas K.; Oksanen, Lauri; Oksaneny, Tarja; Olofsson, Johan; Park, Taejin; Pedersen, Ashild O.; Ramirez, Juan Ignacio; Ravolainen, Virve T.; Roy, Austin; Ryde, Ingvild; Schmidt, Niels Martin; Schrofner-Brunner, Benedikt; Skarin, Anna; Speed, James D. M.; te Beest, Mariska; Simmonds, Mikaela; Torres, Rita T.; Traylor, Wolfgang; Virtanen, Risto; Wheeler, Helen C.; Alatalo, Juha M.; Axmacher, Jan C.; Filella, Jordi Bartolome; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Geange, Sonya R.; Gilg, Olivier; Grogan, Paul; Hernandez-Castellano, Carlos; Hoye, Toke T.; Kerby, Jeffrey T.; Klanderud, Kari; Koltz, Amanda M.; Lang, Johannes; Le Moullec, Mathilde; Loonen, Maarten J. J. E.; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Post, Eric; Serrano, Emmanuel; Siewert, Matthias; Sokolov, Aleksandr; Sokolova, Natalia; Suominen, Otso; Tamayo, Mariana; Terekhina, Alexandra; Volkovitskiy, Alexander; Kamenova, Stefaniya
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Impacts of large herbivores on mycorrhizal fungal communities across the Arctic (2025) Brachmann, Cole G.; Ryberg, Martin; Furneaux, Brendan R.; Rosling, Anna; Ou, Tinghai; Ekblad, Alf; Abdulmanova, Svetlana; Barrio, Isabel C.; Bret-harte, M. Syndonia; Fritze, Hannu; Gough, Laura; Hollister, Robert D.; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S.; Kalttopää, Oula; Lindén, Elin; Mäkiranta, Päivi; Olofsson, Johan; Partanen, Rauni; Reid, Kirsten A.; Sokolov, Aleksandr; Sujala, Maija S.; Sundqvist, Maja K.; Suominen, Otso; Tweedie, Craig E.; Young, Amanda; Björk, Robert G.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Impacts of winter climate change on northern forest understory carbon dioxide exchange determined by reindeer grazing (2025)
- Science of the Total Environment
Kantola, Noora; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Leffler, A. Joshua; Lämsä, Juho; Paavola, Riku; Suominen, Otso; Väisänen, Maria
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Does long-term grazing cause cascading impacts on the soil microbiome in mountain birch forests? (2024) Ahonen, Saija H. K.; Ruotsalainen, Anna Liisa; Wäli, Piippa R.; Suominen, Otso; Vindstad, Ole Petter L.; Jepsen, Jane Uhd; Markkola, Annamari
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Reindeer grazing reduces climate-driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra (2024) Ramirez, J. Ignacio; Sundqvist, Maja; Lindén, Elin; Björk, Robert G.; Forbes, Bruce C.; Suominen, Otso; Torbjörn, Tyler; Virtanen, Risto; Olofsson, Johan
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Living, dead, and absent trees-How do moth outbreaks shape small-scale patterns of soil organic matter stocks and dynamics at the Subarctic mountain birch treeline? (2022) Meyer Nele, Xu Yi, Karjalainen Katri, Adamczyk Sylwia, Biasi Christina, van Delden Lona, Martin Angela, Mganga Kevin, Myller Kristiina, Sietiö Outi-Maaria, Suominen Otso, Karhu Kristiina
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Hydroclimatic Controls on the Isotopic (δ18 O, δ2 H, d-excess) Traits of Pan-Arctic Summer Rainfall Events (2021)
- Frontiers in earth science
Mellat Moein, Bailey Hannah, Mustonen Kaisa-Riikka, Marttila Hannu, Klein Eric S., Gribanov Konstantin, Bret-Harte M. Syndonia, Chupakov Artem V., Divine Dmitry V., Else Brent, Filippov Ilya, Hyöky Valtteri, Jones Samantha, Kirpotin Sergey N., Kroon Aart, Markussen Helge Tore, Nielsen Martin, Olsen Maia, Paavola Riku, Pokrovsky Oleg S., Prokushkin Anatoly, Rasch Morten, Raundrup Katrine, Suominen Otso, Syvänperä Ilkka, Vignisson Sölvi Rúnar, Zarov Evgeny, Welker Jeffrey M.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Turun yliopiston ja Utsjoen pitkä yhteistyö syvenee – seuraavaksi neuvotellaan valtakunnallisista toimenpiteistä (2021) Tieva-Niittyvuopio Vuokko, Hannula Mika, Kallio Heikki, Niemelä Pekka, Suominen Otso, Alhopuro Sakari
(E1 Popularised article)
- Effects of reindeer grazing and recovery after cessation of grazing on the ground-dwelling spider assemblage in Finnish Lapland (2019) Saikkonen Teemu, Vahtera Varpu, Koponen Seppo, Suominen Otso
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
