Virginia Mosquera

I am an environmental engineer interested in water management focusing mainly in lake and river ecosystems. My main research interest is the link between catchment properties, water quality and the impact in aquatic ecosystems. In my PhD project, I digged into how forest management activities such as clear cut and ditch cleaning can affect the water quality and the aquatic ecosystem functioning, while now in my post doc i am trying to understand the positive and negative effects of mire restoration on water quality.

Selected publications

Mosquera, V., Laudon, H., Karimi, S., Sponseller, R. & Hasselquist, E. (2025). Cumulative and discrete effects of forest harvest and drainage on the hydrological regime and nutrient dynamics in boreal catchments. Forest Ecology and Management. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112725001136

Mosquera, V., Gundale, M. J., Palviainen, M., Laurén, A., Laudon, H., & Hasselquist, E. M. (2024). Biochar as a potential tool to mitigate nutrient exports from managed boreal forest: A laboratory and field experiment. GCB Bioenergy, 16(3), e13131.

Laudon, H., Mosquera, V., Eklöf, K. et al. (2023) Consequences of rewetting and ditch cleaning on hydrology, water quality and greenhouse gas balance in a drained northern landscape. Sci Rep 13, 20218 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47528-4

Mosquera,V., Laudon, H., Blackburn, M., Hasselquist, E., Sponseller, R., 2023. Concentration-Discharge Patterns Reveal Catchment Controls Over the Stoichiometry of Carbon and Nutrient Supply to Boreal Streams. JGR Biogeosciences (128). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007179

Mosquera, V., Maher E., Sponseller, R. and Laudon, H. 2022. Co‐occurrence of Browning and Oligotrophication in a Boreal Stream Network. Limnology and Oceanography (9999):1–15. DOI: 
10.1002/lno.12205

Mika N., Maher, E., Mosquera, V., Ukonmaanaho, L., Sallantaus, T., Sarkkola, S. 2022. Post-drainage stand growth and peat mineralization impair water quality from forested peatlands. Journal of Envieronmental Quality. (51): 1211-1221. DOI: 10.1002/jeq2.20412