Helena Wirta

0000-0002-4667-2166

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Associate professor at Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience

KBC-Fysiologihuset, Linnaeus väg 6, Umeå, A3 44 21 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I study ecological communities, focusing on how and why plant-insect-microbe communities change and identifying the players in the foodwebs by DNA based methods.

Balancing grazing and biodiversity: arthropod responses to modern cattle farming practices

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Elsevier 2026, Vol. 395

Mäkeläinen, Sanna; Backman, Torgny; Bosco, Laura; et al.

The Latitudinal Biotic Interaction Hypothesis revisited: contrasting latitudinal richness gradients in actively vs. passively accumulated interaction partners of honey bees

BMC Ecology and Evolution, BioMed Central (BMC) 2025, Vol. 25, (1)

Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Roslin, Tomas; Peña-Aguilera, Pablo; et al.

DNA in honey could describe the changes in flower visits and microbe encounters of honey bees over decades

Scientific Reports, Springer Nature 2025, Vol. 15, (1)

Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Wirta, Helena

Opportunistic partner choice among arctic plants and root-associated fungi is driven by environmental conditions

Ecological Monographs, John Wiley & Sons 2025, Vol. 95, (3)

Parisy, Bastien; Schmidt, Niels M.; Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; et al.

Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: major steps towards an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland

Plants, People, Planet

Whitley, Brandon Samuel; Abermann, Jakob; Alsos, Inger Greve; et al.

Flower-visitor and pollen-load data provide complementary insight into species and individual network roles

Oikos, John Wiley & Sons 2024, (4)

Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Wirta, Helena; Kaartinen, Riikka; et al.

Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation

Communications Earth & Environment, Springer Nature 2024, Vol. 5, (1)

Parisy, Bastien; Schmidt, Niels M.; Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; et al.

Distinct communities and differing dispersal routes in bacteria and fungi of honey bees, honey, and flowers

Microbial Ecology, Springer Nature 2024, Vol. 87, (1)

Tiusanen, Mikko; Becker-Scarpitta, Antoine; Wirta, Helena

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Terrestrial ecology