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Dr Johanna Katariina Yletyinen

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Department: Biological Sciences

Email: johanna.yletyinen@canterbury.ac.nz

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Languages: English, Finnish, Swedish

My research investigates resilience and large-scale changes in ecosystems and social-ecological systems.
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Research / Creative works
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Fields of Research

  • Natural Resource Management

Researcher Summary

Research interests include
- natural resource management
- resilience
- human-environment interactions, social-ecological systems
- regime shifts, tipping points
- complex adaptive systems
- ecological network analysis
- social network analysis
- direct and indirect multiple drivers (anthropogenic impacts and natural variability) effects on ecosystems

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Earth Sciences: Physical Geography
  • Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Biology

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Yletyinen J., Brown P., Pech R., Hodges D., Hulme PE., Malcolm TF., Maseyk FJF., Peltzer DA., Perry GLW. and Richardson SJ. (2019) Understanding and managing social–ecological tipping points in primary industries. BioScience 69(5): 335-347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz031. (Journal Articles)
  • Yletyinen J., Hentati-Sundberg J., Blenckner T. and Bodin Ö. (2018) Fishing strategy diversification and fishers' ecological dependency. Ecology and Society 23(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-10211-230328. (Journal Articles)
  • Holt RE., Woods PJ., Ferreira ASA., Bardarson H., Bonanomi S., Boonstra WJ., Butler WE., Diekert FK., Fouzai N. and Holma M. (2017) Avoiding pitfalls in interdisciplinary education. Climate Research 74: 121-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr01491. (Journal Articles)
  • Pedersen MW., Kokkalis A., Bardarson H., Bonanomi S., Boonstra WJ., Butler WE., Diekert FK., Fouzai N., Holma M. and Holt RE. (2016) Trends in marine climate change research in the Nordic region since the first IPCC report. Climatic Change 134(1-2): 147-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1536-6. (Journal Articles)
  • Yletyinen J., Bodin Ö., Weigel B., Nordström MC., Bonsdorff E. and Blenckner T. (2016) Regime shifts in marine communities: A complex systems perspective on food web dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1825): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2569. (Journal Articles)
  • Boonstra WJ., Ottosen KM., Ferreira ASA., Richter A., Rogers LA., Pedersen MW., Kokkalis A., Bardarson H., Bonanomi S. and Butler W. (2015) What are the major global threats and impacts in marine environments? Investigating the contours of a shared perception among marine scientists from the bottom-up. Marine Policy 60: 197-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.06.007. (Journal Articles)
  • Rocha J., Yletyinen J., Biggs R., Blenckner T. and Peterson G. (2015) Marine Regime shifts: Drivers and impacts on Ecosystems services. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370(1659): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0273. (Journal Articles)
  • Niiranen S., Yletyinen J., Tomczak MT., Blenckner T., Hjerne O., Mackenzie BR., Müller-Karulis B., Neumann T. and Meier HEM. (2013) Combined effects of global climate change and regional ecosystem drivers on an exploited marine food web. Global Change Biology 19(11): 3327-3342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12309. (Journal Articles)
  • Tomczak MT., Heymans JJ., Yletyinen J., Niiranen S., Otto SA. and Blenckner T. (2013) Ecological Network Indicators of Ecosystem Status and Change in the Baltic Sea. PLoS ONE 8(10): e75439-e75439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075439. (Journal Articles)

Key Methodologies

  • Network analysis
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