Professional summary
Terhi is the Flux Network Manager of the UKCEH network of eddy covariance sites, which quantify water fluxes and greenhouse gas net balances in various ecosystem types, ranging from pristine peatlands and saltmarshes to croplands and bioenergy plantations.
Her expertise is ecosystem ecology, particularly carbon dynamics and primary productivity. She has worked in forests and peatlands across boreal, temperate and tropical zones, examining the impact of different anthropogenic pressures such as climate change, land use change, and ecosystem degradation and fragmentation.
Selected publications below. For the full list, see my profile in Google Scholar.
Mills, M.B., Malhi, Y., Ewers, R.M., Kho, L.K., Teh, Y.A., Both, S., Burslem, D.F., Majalap, N., Nilus, R., Huaraca Huasco, W., Cruz, R., Pillco, M.M., Turner, E.C., Reynolds, G. & Riutta, T. 2023. Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(3): e2214462120.
Malhi, Y., Riutta, T., Wearn, O.R., Deere, N.J., Mitchell, S.L., Bernard, H., Majalap, N., Nilus, R., Davies, Z.G., Ewers, R.M. & Struebig, M.J., 2022. Logged tropical forests have amplified and diverse ecosystem energetics. Nature, 612(7941).
Riutta, T., Kho, L.K., Teh, Y.A., Ewers, R., Majalap, N. & Malhi, Y. 2021. Major and persistent shifts in below-ground carbon dynamics and soil respiration following logging in tropical forests. Global Change Biology 27(10): 2225-2240.
Huasco, W.H., Riutta, T., … & Malhi, Y., 2021. Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 27(15): 3657-3680.
Nunes, M.H., Jucker, T., Riutta, T., Svatek, M., Kvasnika, J., Rejzek, M., Matula, R., Majalap, N., Ewers, R.M., Swinfield, T., Valbuena, R., Vaughn, N.R., Asner, G.P. & Coomes, D.A. Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified landscape. 2021. Nature Communications 12: 1526.
Riutta, T., Korrensalo, A., Laine, A.M., Laine, J. & Tuittila, E.S. 2020. Interacting effects of vegetation components and water level on methane dynamics in a boreal fen. Biogeosciences 17, 727-740. 10.5194/bg-17-727-2020.
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. & Burslem, D.F.R.P. 2019. Logging and soil nutrients independently explain plant trait expression in tropical forests. New Phytologist 221: 1853-1865.
Visakorpi, K., Gripenberg, S., Malhi, Y., Bolas, C., Oliveras, I., Harris, N., Rifai, S. & 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
Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Kho, L. K., Marthews, T. R., Huaraca Huasco, W., Khoo, M., Tan, S., Turner, E., Reynolds, G., Both, S., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Teh, Y. A., Vairappan, C. S., Majalap, N. & Ewers, R. M. 2018. Logging disturbance shifts net primary productivity and its allocation in Bornean tropical forests. Global Change Biology 24: 2913-2928.