I am a physical geographer with ecological questions
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Current project
Investigating geodiversity-biodiversity relationships under climate change Read more about the project here Affiliation Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oulu, Finland firstname.lastname@oulu.fi |
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... and I have a soft spot for tiny tundra plants
I investigate all sorts of things, but these are my favourite topics
Plant functional traits
Kemppinen & Niittynen. 2022. Microclimate relationships of intraspecific trait variation in sub-Arctic plants. Oikos.
Kemppinen et al. 2021. Consistent trait-environment relationships across tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Plant species distributions
Niittynen ... Kemppinen et al. 2020. Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions. Nature Climate Change.
Kemppinen et al. 2019. Water as a resource, stress and disturbance shaping tundra vegetation. Oikos.
Soil moisture
Kemppinen et al. 2023. Soil moisture variations from boreal forests to tundra. Water Resources Research.
Kemppinen et al. 2021. Dwarf shrubs impact tundra soils: drier, colder, and less organic carbon. Ecosystems.
Microclimate
Kemppinen et al. Microclimate, an inseparable part of ecology and biogeography. Preprint.
Aalto ... Kemppinen et al. 2022. Microclimate temperature variations from boreal forests to the tundra. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Kemppinen & Niittynen. 2022. Microclimate relationships of intraspecific trait variation in sub-Arctic plants. Oikos.
Kemppinen et al. 2021. Consistent trait-environment relationships across tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Plant species distributions
Niittynen ... Kemppinen et al. 2020. Fine-scale tundra vegetation patterns are strongly related to winter thermal conditions. Nature Climate Change.
Kemppinen et al. 2019. Water as a resource, stress and disturbance shaping tundra vegetation. Oikos.
Soil moisture
Kemppinen et al. 2023. Soil moisture variations from boreal forests to tundra. Water Resources Research.
Kemppinen et al. 2021. Dwarf shrubs impact tundra soils: drier, colder, and less organic carbon. Ecosystems.
Microclimate
Kemppinen et al. Microclimate, an inseparable part of ecology and biogeography. Preprint.
Aalto ... Kemppinen et al. 2022. Microclimate temperature variations from boreal forests to the tundra. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
... which I get to teach and share with others
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Lecture course on physical geography
BSc level University of Oulu, Finland On this course, I teach phenomena and processes related to the atmosphere. Essay course on nature conservation BSc level University of Oulu, Finland This year, the essay topics are biodiversity, geodiversity and climate change. Field course on plant functional traits MSc, PhD level University of Bergen, Norway This year, field and lab methods on plant traits are taught in the Drakensberg, South Africa. |
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Most recently, this is what I have been up to:
8.11.2023
I served as an external reviewer in Karen De Pauw's PhD defence at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Karen's thesis is entitled "Understorey biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in rural and urban forest edges across temperate Europe". Read more here. I also gave a seminar talk at the Forest & Nature Lab, and visited their study sites.
2.10.2023
I am back from four weeks of fieldwork in northern Finland. Together with Pekka Niittynen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) we collected data on geodiversity, microclimate, and soil nutrients at our study sites in the Kilpisjärvi region, Värriö Strict Nature Reserve, and Oulanka National Park. We also collected microclimate data for Georg Kodl (University of St Andrews, Scotland).
4.9.2023
I published as a co-author a data article, Vandvik et al. 2023 Scientific Data. We collected data on plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard, Norway. We collected the data on the plant functional trait course 2018. Read more here.
1.9.2023
I am teaching a new course this academic year at the University of Oulu, Finland. The course is called "Nature conservation: a geographic perspective". It is an essay course and this year the topics are biodiversity, geodiversity and climate change. Full description is here.
I served as an external reviewer in Karen De Pauw's PhD defence at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Karen's thesis is entitled "Understorey biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in rural and urban forest edges across temperate Europe". Read more here. I also gave a seminar talk at the Forest & Nature Lab, and visited their study sites.
2.10.2023
I am back from four weeks of fieldwork in northern Finland. Together with Pekka Niittynen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) we collected data on geodiversity, microclimate, and soil nutrients at our study sites in the Kilpisjärvi region, Värriö Strict Nature Reserve, and Oulanka National Park. We also collected microclimate data for Georg Kodl (University of St Andrews, Scotland).
4.9.2023
I published as a co-author a data article, Vandvik et al. 2023 Scientific Data. We collected data on plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard, Norway. We collected the data on the plant functional trait course 2018. Read more here.
1.9.2023
I am teaching a new course this academic year at the University of Oulu, Finland. The course is called "Nature conservation: a geographic perspective". It is an essay course and this year the topics are biodiversity, geodiversity and climate change. Full description is here.
