Reti is a postdoc working on measuring, synthesizing and modeling CH4 flux datasets, investigating the impacts of soil factors and management practices on greenhouse gas emissions in rice agriculture sites.
PhD, Physical Geography, University of Tartu, Estonia
MSc, Climate Change, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
BSc, Geography, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Online:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reti/;
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5271-5302;
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wC_n8sAAAAAJ
Publications
Kasak, K., Dronova, I., Soosaar, K., Melling, L., Xhuan, W.G., Sangok, F., Ranniku, R., Villa, J.A., Bansal, S., Peacock, M., Mander, Ü., 2025. Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia. Sci. Rep. 15, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-21094-3
Pärn, J., Espenberg, M., Soosaar, K., Kasak, K., Thayamkottu, S., Schindler, T., Ranniku, R., Sohar, K., Malaverri, L.F., Melling, L., Mander, Ü., 2025. Importance of N2O in greenhouse gas budgets of tropical peatlands. Front. Environ. Sci. 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1585537
Kazmi, F.A., Mander, Ü., Ranniku, R., Öpik, M., Püssa, K., Soosaar, K., Kasak, K., Masta, M., Ah-Peng, C., Espenberg, M., 2025. Nitrogen cycling genes abundance in soil and aboveground compartments of tropical peatland cloud forests and a wetland on Réunion Island. Sci. Rep. 15, 27155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12367-y
Kazmi, F.A., Mander, Ü., Khanongnuch, R., Öpik, M., Ranniku, R., Soosaar, K., Masta, M., Tenhovirta, S.A., Kasak, K., Ah-Peng, C. and Espenberg, M. (2025) Distinct microbial communities drive methane cycling in below-and above-ground compartments of tropical cloud forests growing on peat. Environmental microbiome, 20:54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-025-00718-1
Ranniku, R., Kazmi, F.A., Espenberg, M., Truupõld, J., Escuer-Gatius, J., Mander, Ü. and Soosaar, K. (2025) Springtime soil and tree stem greenhouse gas fluxes and the related soil microbiome pattern in a drained peatland forest. Biogeochemistry, 168:48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-025-01238-3
Ranniku, R., Mander, Ü., Escuer-Gatius, J., Schindler, T., Kupper, P., Sellin, A., Soosaar, K. (2024) Dry and wet periods determine stem and soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a drained peatland forest. Science of the Total Environment. 928, 172452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172452
Kazmi, F.A., Espenberg, M., Pärn, J., Masta, M., Ranniku, R., Thayamkottu, S., Mander, Ü. (2023) Meltwater of freeze-thaw cycles drives N2O-governing microbial communities in a drained peatland forest soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-023-01790-w
Ranniku, R., Schindler, T., Escuer-Gatius, J., Mander, Ü., Machacova, K., Soosaar, K. (2023) Tree stems are a net source of CH4 and N2O in a hemiboreal drained peatland forest during the winter period. Environmental Research Communications, 5, 051010. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acd7c7
Mander, Ü., Krasnova, A., Schindler, T., Megonigal, J. P., Escuer-Gatius, J., Espenberg, M., Machacova, K., Maddison, M., Pärn, J., Ranniku, R., Pihlatie, M., Kasak, K., Niinemets, Ü., Soosaar, K. (2022) Long-term dynamics of soil, tree stem and ecosystem methane fluxes in a riparian forest. Science of the Total Environment, 809, 151723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151723
Wang, P., D’Imperio, L., Biersma, E. M., Ranniku, R., Xu, W., Tian, Q., Ambus, P., Elberling, B. (2020) Combined effects of glacial retreat and penguin activity on soil greenhouse gas fluxes on South Georgia, sub-Antarctica. Science of The Total Environment, 718, 135255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135255.