Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

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Dr Terhi Riutta is a post doc in the Ecosystem Dynamics Group within the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. She is currently working in the SAFE project in Malaysian Borneo where she is studying the effect of land use change and fragmentation on forest dynamics and carbon cycling. Her current position is joint between Oxford and the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. Terhi is also involved in the temperate forest carbon dynamics research in Wytham Woods.

Terhi's general research interests include ecosystem carbon dynamics and primary productivity, trace gas fluxes, decomposition, and vegetation dynamics and composition in forest and peatland ecosystems.

Before coming to Oxford Terhi was based at the Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki in Finland, where she did her PhD and MSc degrees investigating carbon dioxide and methane dynamics of peatland ecosystems in a changing climate.

2021

• Aguirre-Gutierrez, J., Rifai, S., Shenkin, A., Oliveras, I., Bentley, L.P., Svatek, M., Girardin, C.A.J., Both, S., Riutta, T., Berenguer, E., Kissling, W.D., Bauman, D., Raab, N., Moore, S., Farfan-Rios, W., Figueiredo, A.E.S., Reis, S.M., Ndong, J.E., Ondo, F.E., N'ssi Bengone, N., Mihindou, V., Moraes de Seixas, M.M., Adu-Bredu, S., Abernethy, K., Asner, G.P., Barlow, J., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Coomes, D.A., Cernusak, L.A., Dargie, G.C., Enquist, B.J., Ewers, R.M., Ferreira, J., Jeffery, K.J., Joly, C.A., Lewis, S.L., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Martin, R.E., Morandi, P.S., Phillips, O.L., Quesada, C.A., Salinas, N., Schwantes Marimon, B., Silman, M., Teh, Y.A., White, L.J.T. and Malhi, Y. (2021) Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252. 112122.
• Malhi, Y., Girardin, C., Metcalfe, D.B., Doughty, C.E., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Rifai, S.W., Oliveras, I., Shenkin, A., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Riutta, T., Berenguer, E., Moore, S., Huaraca Huasco, W., Salinas, N., da Costa, A.C.L., Bentley, L.P., Adu-Bredu, S., Marthews, T.R., Meir, P. and Phillips, O.L. (2021) The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics. Biological Conservation, 253. 108889.

2020

• Riutta, T., Korrensalo, A., Laine, A.M., Laine, J. and Tuittila, E.S. (2020) Interacting effects of vegetation components and water level on methane dynamics in a boreal fen. Biogeosciences, 17: 727-740.
• Robinson, S.J.B., Elias, D., Johnson, D., Both, S., Riutta, T., Goodall, T., Majalap, N., McNamara, N.P., Griffiths, R. and Ostle, N. (2020) Soil fungal community characteristics and mycelial production across a disturbance gradient in lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Borneo. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3.
• Swinfield, T., Both, S., Riutta, T., Bongalov, B., Elias, D., Majalap-Lee, N., Ostle, N., Svatek, M., Kvasnica, J., Milodowski, D., Jucker, T., Ewers, R.M., Zhang, Y., Johnson, D., Teh, Y.A., Burslem, D., Malhi, Y. and Coomes, D. (2020) Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees. Global Change Biology, 26: 989-1002.
• Visakorpi, K., Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Salminen, J.P., Salinas, N. and Gripenberg, S. (2020) Changes in oak (Quercus robur) photosynthesis after winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory are not explained by changes in chemical or structural leaf traits. Plos One, 15.
• Walker, A.P., De Kauwe, M.G., Bastos, A., Belmecheri, S., Georgiou, K., Keeling, R., McMahon, S.M., Medlyn, B.E., Moore, D.J.P., Norby, R.J., Zaehle, S., Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., Battipaglia, G., Brienen, R.J.W., Cabugao, K.G., Cailleret, M., Campbell, E., Canadell, J., Ciais, P., Craig, M.E., Ellsworth, D., Farquhar, G., Fatichi, S., Fisher, J.B., Frank, D., Graven, H., Gu, L., Haverd, V., Heilman, K., Heimann, M., Hungate, B.A., Iversen, C.M., Joos, F., Jiang, M., Keenan, T.F., Knauer, J., Körner, C., Leshyk, V.O., Leuzinger, S., Liu, Y., MacBean, N., Malhi, Y., McVicar, T., Penuelas, J., Pongratz, J., Powell, A.S., Riutta, T., Sabot, M.E.B., Schleucher, J., Sitch, S., Smith, W.K., Sulman, B., Taylor, B., Terrer, C., Torn, M.S., Treseder, K., Trugman, A.T., Trumbore, S.E., van Mantgem, P.J., Voelker, S.L., Whelan, M.E. and Zuidema, P.A. (2020) Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO₂. New Phytologist.

2019

• Both, S., Riutta, T., Paine, C.E.T., Elias, D.M.O., Cruz, R.S., Jain, A., Johnson, D., Kritzler, U.H., Kuntz, M., Majalap-Lee, N., Mielke, N., Montoya Pillco, M.X., Ostle, N.J., Arn Teh, Y., Malhi, Y. and Burslem, D.F.R.P. (2019) Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests. New Phytologist, 221: 1853-1865.
• Nunes, M.H., Both, S., Bongalov, B., Brelsford, C., Khoury, S., Burslem, D.F., Philipson, C., Majalap, N., Riutta, T., Coomes, D.A. and Cutler, M.E. (2019) Changes in leaf functional traits of rainforest canopy trees associated with an El Niño event in Borneo. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8). p.085005.
• Visakorpi, K., Riutta, T., Martínez-Bauer, A.E., Salminen, J.P. and Gripenberg, S. (2019) Insect community structure covaries with host plant chemistry but is not affected by prior herbivory. Ecology, 100(8). e02739.

2018

• Blonder, B., Both, S., Coomes, D.A., Elias, D., Jucker, T., Kvasnica, J., Majalap, N., Malhi, Y.S., Milodowski, D., Riutta, T. and Svátek, M. (2018) Extreme and highly heterogeneous microclimates in selectively logged tropical forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 1(5).
• Chapman, P.M., Wearn, O.R., Riutta, T., Carbone, C., Rowcliffe, J.M., Bernard, H. and Ewers, R.M. (2018) Inter-annual dynamics and persistence of small mammal communities in a selectively logged tropical forest in Borneo. Biodiversity and Conservation, 27: 3155-3169.
• Jucker, T., Asner, G.P., Dalponte, M., Brodrick, P., Philipson, C.D., Vaughn, N., The, Y.A., Brelsford, C., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Deere, N., Ewers, R.M., Kvasnica, J., Lewis, S., Malhi, Y., Milne, S., Nilus, R., Pfeifer, M., Phillips, O.L., Qie, L., Renneboog, N., Reynolds, G., Riutta, T., Struebig, M.J., Svatek, M., Turner, E.C. and Coomes, D.A. (2018) Estimating aboveground carbon density and its uncertainty in Borneo's structurally complex tropical forests using airborne laser scanning. Biogeosciences, 15: 3811-3830.
• Rifai, S.W., Girardin, C.A.J., Berenguer, E., del Aguila-Pasquel, J., Dahlsjo, C.A.L., Doughty, C.E., Jeffery, K.J., Moore, S., Oliveras, I., Riutta, T., Rowland, L.M., Murakami, A.A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Brando, P., Burton, C., Ondo, F.E., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Amezquita, F.F., Freitag, R., Pacha, F.H., Huasco, W.H., Ibrahim, F., Mbou, A.T., Mihindou, V.M., Peixoto, K.S., Rocha, W., Rossi, L.C., Seixas, M., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Abernethy, K.A., Adu-Bredu, S., Barlow, J., da Costa, A.C.L., Marimon, B.S., Marimon, B., Meir, P., Metcalfe, D.B., Phillips, O.L., White, L.J.T. and Malhi, Y. (2018) ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 373(1760).
• Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Kho, L.K., Marthews, T.R., Huasco, W.H., Khoo, M., Tan, S., Turner, E., Reynolds, G., Both, S., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Teh, Y.A., Wairappan, C.S., Majalap, N. and Ewers, R. (2018) Logging disturbance shifts net primary productivity and its allocation in Bornean tropical forests. Global Change Biology, 24: 2913-2928.
• Visakorpi, K., Gripenberg, S., Malhi, Y., Bolas, C., Oliveras, I., Harris, N., Rifai, S. and Riutta, T. (2018) Small-scale indirect plant responses to insect herbivory could have major impacts on canopy photosynthesis and isoprene emission. New Phytologist, 220: 799-810.

2016

• Riutta, T., Clack, H., Crockatt, M. and Slade, E.M. (2016) Landscape-scale implications of the edge effect on soil fauna activity in a temperate forest. Ecosystems, 19(3): 534-544.
• Slade, E.M., Riutta, T., Roslin, T. and Tuomisto, H.L. (2016) The role of dung beetles in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cattle farming. Scientific Reports, 6. 22683.

2015

• Buesching, C.D., Slade, E.M., Newman, C., Riutta, T., Riordan, P. and Macdonald, D.W. (2015) Many hands make light work - but do they? A critical evaluation of citizen science. In, Macdonald, D.W. and Feber, R.E. (eds.) Wildlife Conservation on Farmland Volume 2: Conflict in the countryside. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-874550-1.
• Malhi, Y., Moore, S. and Riutta, T. (2015) Forest carbon budgets and climate change. In, Peh, K., Cortlett, R. and Bergeron, Y. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Forest ecology. Routledge, Oxford. pp. 517-526.
• McMahon, S.M., Bebber, D.P., Butt, N., Crockatt, M., Kirby, K., Parker, G.G., Riutta, T. and Slade, E.M. (2015) Ground based LiDAR demonstrates the legacy of management history to canopy structure and composition across a fragmented temperate woodland. Forest Ecology and Management, 335: 255-260.

2014

• Butt, N., Bebber, D., Riutta, T., Crockatt, M., Morecroft, M.D. and Malhi, Y. (2014) Relationships between tree growth and weather extremes: Spatial and interspecific comparisons in a temperate broadleaf forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 334: 209-216.
• Riutta, T., Slade, E.M., Morecroft, M.D., Bebber, D.P. and Malhi, Y. (2014) Living on the edge: quantifying the structure of a fragmented forest landscape in England. Landscape Ecology, 29(6): 949-961.

2013

• Butt, N., Slade, E., Thompson, J., Malhi, Y. and Riutta, T. (2013) Quantifying the sampling error in tree census measurements by volunteers and its effect on carbon stock estimates. Ecological Applications, 23(4): 936-943.
• Collison, E.J., Riutta, T. and Slade, E.M. (2013) Macrofauna assemblage composition and soil moisture interact to affect soil ecosystem functions. Acta Oecologica, 47: 30-36.
• Penttilä, A., Slade, E.M., Simojoki, A., Riutta, T., Minkkinen, K. and Roslin, T. (2013) Quantifying beetle-mediated effects on gas fluxes from dung pats. PLoS ONE, 8. e71454.
• Slade, E.M., Merckx, T., Riutta, T., Bebber, D.P., Redhead, D., Riordan, P. and Macdonald, D.W. (2013) Life-history traits and landscape characteristics predict macro-moth responses to forest fragmentation. Ecology, 94: 1519-1530.

2012

• Laine, A., Bubier, J., Riutta, T., Nilsson, M., Moore, T., Vasander, H. and Tuittila, E.S. (2012) Abundance and composition of plant biomass as potential controls for mire net ecosytem CO₂ exchange. Botany, 90(1): 63-74.
• Riutta, T., Slade, E.M., Bebber, D.P., Taylor, M.E., Malhi, Y., Riordan, P., Macdonald, D.W. and Morecroft, M.D. (2012) Experimental evidence for the interacting effects of forest edge, moisture and soil macrofauna on leaf litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 49: 124-131.
• Simpson, J.E., Slade, E., Riutta, T. and Taylor, M.E. (2012) Factors affecting soil fauna feeding activity in a fragmented lowland temperate deciduous woodland. PLoS ONE, 7(1). e29616.
• Slade, E.M. and Riutta, T. (2012) Interacting effects of leaf litter species and macrofauna on decomposition in different litter environments. Basic and Applied Ecology, 13: 423-431.

2011

• Maanavilja, L., Riutta, T., Aurela, M., Pulkkinen, M., Laurila, T. and Tuittila, E.S. (2011) Spatial variation in CO₂ exchange at a northern aapa mire. Biogeochemistry, 104: 325-345.

2010

• Mäkiranta, P., Riutta, T., Penttilä, T. and Minkkinen, K. (2010) Dynamics of net ecosystem CO₂ exchange and heterotrophic soil respiration following clearfelling in a drained peatland forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150(12): 1585-1596.
• Soini, P., Riutta, T., Yli-Petays, M. and Vasander, H. (2010) Comparison of vegetation and CO₂ dynamics between a restored cut-away peatland and a pristine fen: evaluation of the restoration success. Restoration Ecology, 18(6): 894-903.

2009

• Aurela, M., Lohila, A., Tuovinen, J.P., Hatakka, J., Riutta, T. and Laurila, T. (2009) Carbon dioxide exchange on a northern boreal fen. Boreal Environment Research, 14(4): 699-710.
• Laine, A., Riutta, T., Juutinen, S., Valiranta, M. and Tuittila, E.S. (2009) Acknowledging the spatial heterogeneity in modelling/reconstructing carbon dioxide exchange in a northern aapa mire. Ecological Modelling, 220(20): 2646-2655.

2007

• Aurela, M., Riutta, T., Laurila, T., Tuovinen, J., Vesala, T., Tuittila, E., Rinne, J., Haapanala, S. and Laine, J. (2007) CO₂ exchange of a sedge fen in southern Finland - the impact of a drought period. Tellus B, 59(5): 826-837.
• Lindroth, A., Lund, M., Nilsson, M., Aurela, M., Christensen, T.R., Laurila, T., Rinne, J., Riutta, T., Sagerfors, J., Ström, L. and Tuovinen, J.P. (2007) Environmental controls on the CO₂ exchange in north European mires. Tellus B, 59(5): 812-825.
• Rinne, J., Riutta, T., Pihlatie, M., Aurela, M., Haapanala, S., Tuovinen, J.P., Tuittila, E.S. and Vesala, T. (2007) Annual cycle of methane emission from a boreal fen measured by the eddy covariance technique. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 59(3): 449-457.
• Riutta, T., Laine, J. and Tuittila, E.S. (2007) Sensitivity of CO₂ exchange of fen ecosystem components to water level variation. Ecosystems, 10(5): 718-733.
• Riutta, T., Laine, J., Aurela, M., Rinne, J., Vesala, T., Laurila, T., Haapanala, S., Pihlatie, M. and Tuittila, E.S. (2007) Spatial variation in plant community functions regulates carbon gas dynamics in a boreal fen ecosystem. Tellus B, 59(5): 838-852.
• Wilson, D., Alm, J., Riutta, T., Laine, J., Byrne, K.A., Farrell, E.P. and Tuittila, E.S. (2007) A high resolution green area index for modelling the seasonal dynamics of CO₂ exchange in peatland vascular plant communities. Plant Ecology, 190(1): 37-51.

2006

• Haapanala, S., Rinne, J., Pystynen, K.H., Hellén, H., Hakola, H. and Riutta, T. (2006) Measurements of hydrocarbon emissions from a boreal fen using the REA technique. Biogeosciences, 3: 103-112.