Heini Kujala

Developing a spatially explicit modelling and evaluation framework for integrated carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation: Application in southern Finland

Martin Forsius, Heini Kujala, Francesco Minunno, Maria Holmberg, Niko Leikola, Ninni Mikkonen, Iida Autio, Ville-Veikko Paunu, Topi Tanhuanpaa, Pekka Hurskainen, Janne Mayra, Sonja Kivinen, Sarita Keski-Saari, Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, Saija Kuusela, Raimo Virkkala, Arto Viinikka, Petteri Vihervaara, Anu Akujarvi, Jaana Back, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The challenges posed by climate change and biodiversity loss are deeply interconnected. Successful co-managing of these tangled dr..

How decisions about fitting species distribution models affect conservation outcomes

Angela Muscatello, Jane Elith, Heini Kujala

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly used in conservation and land-use planning as inputs to describe biodiversity ..

Measuring impacts on species with models and metrics of varying ecological and computational complexity

Christopher D Hallam, Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala, Amy L Whitehead, Emily Nicholson

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Approaches to assess the impacts of landscape disturbance scenarios on species range from metrics based on patterns of occurrence ..

Quantifying the impact of vegetation-based metrics on species persistence when choosing offsets for habitat destruction

Erica Marshall, Roozbeh Valavi, Louise O' Connor, Natasha Cadenhead, Darren Southwell, Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala

Journal article  |  2020  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Developers are often required by law to offset environmental impacts through targeted conservation actions. Most offset policies s..

A practical method for evaluating spatial biodiversity offset scenarios based on spatial conservation prioritization outputs

Atte Moilanen, Heini Kujala, Ninni Mikkonen

Journal article  |  2020  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Biodiversity offsetting is a tool to balance ecological damage caused by human activity with new benefits created elsewhere. Offse..

What are we measuring? A review of metrics used to describe biodiversity in offsets exchanges

Erica Marshall, Brendan A Wintle, Darren Southwell, Heini Kujala

Journal article  |  2020  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity offsets are increasingly employed as an approach to compensate for unavoidable development impacts. Reliance on overl..

Collaborative conservation planning: Quantifying the contribution of expert engagement to identify spatial conservation priorities

Katherine E Selwood, Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala

Journal article  |  2019  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

The importance of expert input to spatial conservation prioritization outcomes is poorly understood. We quantified the impacts of ..

Assessing the impacts of uncertainty in climate-change vulnerability assessments

Md Anwar Hossain, Heini Kujala, Lucie M Bland, Mark Burgman, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort

Journal article  |  2019  |  DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Aim: The trait-based vulnerability assessment (TVA) uses Boolean rules to assess species sensitivity, adaptive capacity and exposu..

Managing uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions

Annabel L Smith, Heini Kujala, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, Lydia K Guja, Emma L Burns, Ran Nathan, Erika Alacs, Philip S Barton, Sana Bau, Don A Driscoll, Pia E Lentini, Alessio Mortelliti, Ross Rowe, Yvonne M Buckley

Journal article  |  2019  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

Species' movements affect their response to environmental change but movement knowledge is often highly uncertain. We now have wel..

Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity

Brendan A Wintle, Heini Kujala, Amy Whitehead, Alison Cameron, Sam Veloz, Aija Kukkala, Atte Moilanen, Ascelin Gordon, Pia E Lentini, Natasha CR Cadenhead, Sarah A Bekessy

Journal article  |  2019  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Island biogeography theory posits that species richness increases with island size and decreases with isolation. This logic underp..