Projects per year
Organization profile
Organisation Profile
The research of the Department of Forest Sciences concentrates on the understanding of the production chain of material and immaterial services and commodities produced by the forests.
Research focus areas 2010–2012
- The interactions between climate change and forest and peatland ecosystems
- Socio-economic changes and the global forest sector
- New methods of managing forest information
- The economic-ecological models of forest use and conservation (includes sub-item Forests as source of well-being)
One of the central resourse in research activities are SMEAR stations which are common with department's of Forest Sciences and Physics.
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
Profiles
Tuomas Aakala
- Department of Forest Sciences - Grant-funded researcher
- Boreal forest dynamics and biodiversity research group
- Forest Ecology and Management
Person: Visiting scholar, Teaching and research personnel
Juho Aalto
- INAR Physics - Postdoctoral Researcher
- Ecosystem processes/ Jaana Bäck
Person: UH, Teaching and research personnel
Heidi Aaltonen
- Ecosystem processes/ Jaana Bäck
- Forest Soil Science and Biogeochemistry
- Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources
Person: UH, Teaching and research personnel
Wafa Abaker
- Department of Forest Sciences
- Viikki Tropical Resources Institute (VITRI)
- Forest Soil Science and Biogeochemistry
Person: UH
Research Units
Boreal forest dynamics and biodiversity research group
Organisational unit: Research Group
Economic-ecological optimization group
Organisational unit: Research Group
Ecosystem processes/ Jaana Bäck
Department of Forest Sciences, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)
Organisational unit: Research Group
Forest Bioeconomy, Business and Sustainability
Department of Forest Sciences, Department of Economics and Management
Organisational unit: Research Group
Equipment
Long-Term Ecosystem Research
Jaana Kaarina Bäck (Manager)
Department of Forest SciencesFacility/equipment: Equipment
Projects 1981 2023
e-CirP: Embedding circular economy into product design and optimization - European consortium to develop new Master education
Nevgi, A. S., Sandström, C. N. & Holopainen, J. M.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research project
Forestflux: Forest Carbon Flux and Storage Mapping Service
Mäkelä-Carter, A. A. & Minunno, F.
01/01/2019 → 31/01/2021
Project: Other project › Development
Naapuruussuhteen rakentaminen lepakoihin kansalaistieteen keinoin
Lilley, T. M., Lundberg, P. K., Kyheröinen, E., Vainio, S. A. & Ojala, A.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2021
Project: Research project
BioVOLHum: BioVOLHum
Mänd, P. & Bäck, J. K.
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research project › _Research
Publications 1977 2019
Assessing branching structure for biomass and wood quality estimation using terrestrial laser scanning point clouds
Pyörälä, J. K., Liang, X., Saarinen, N. P., Kankare, V. V., Wang, Y., Holopainen, M. E., Hyyppä, J. & Vastaranta, M. A., 12 Jan 2019, In : Canadian journal of remote sensing. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Circular, Green, and Bio economy: how do companies in land-use intensive sectors align with sustainability concepts?
D'Amato, D., Korhonen, J. E. & Toppinen, A., Apr 2019, In : Ecological Economics. 158, p. 116-133Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Collapse of a protector species drives secondary endangerment in waterbird communities.
Pöysä, H., Lammi, E., Pöysä, S. & Väänänen, V-M., 2019, In : Biological Conservation. 2019, 230, p. 75-81 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Dual RNA-seq analysis provides new insights into interactions between Norway spruce and necrotrophic pathogen Heterobasidion annosum s.l.
Kovalchuk, A., Zeng, Z., Ghimire, R. P., Kivimäenpää, M., Raffaello, T., Liu, M., Mukrimin, M., Kasanen, R. A. O., Sun, H., Julkunen-Tiitto, R., Holopainen, J. K. & Asiegbu, F. O., 3 Jan 2019, In : BMC Plant Biology. 19, 2, p. 1 - 17 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Early-Warning Signals of Individual Tree Mortality Based on Annual Radial Growth
Cailleret, M., Dakos, V., Jansen, S., Robert, E. M. R., Aakala, T., Amoroso, M. M., Antos, J. A., Bigler, C., Bugmann, H., Caccianaga, M., Camarero, J-J., Cherubini, P., Goeya, M. R., Cufar, K., Das, A. J., Davi, H., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gillner, S., Haavik, L. J., Hartmann, H. & 28 others, 2019, In : Frontiers in plant science. 9, 1964.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Activities 1981 2030
Remote sensing (Journal)
Lauri Korhonen (Reviewer)30 Jun 2030
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Speaker in the Round-table discussion: Publication Strategies and Ways of writing a PhD Thesis
Natalya Yakusheva (Speaker)31 Jan 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
A review of LCA studies on bio-based products using an ecosystem services perspective
Elena Semenzin (Supervisor), Dalia D'amato (Supervisor)Jan 2019 → May 2019
Activity: Examination types › Supervision of other thesis (Master's, Licentiate)
PhD studies supervision of James Mwangombe
Petri Pellikka (Supervisor), Tino Petri Johansson (Co-supervisor), Maria Brockhaus (Co-supervisor), Eshetu Yirdaw Eshetu (Member of thesis committee / follow-up group), Maija Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki (Member of thesis committee / follow-up group)2019 → …
Activity: Examination types › Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
Aquatic Sciences (Journal)
Anne Ojala (Reviewer)5 Oct 2019
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Prizes
Annual grant of the Skandinavisk forskningsfond for bytraeer 2004 for the research in the urban street tree laboratory
Eero Heikki Nikinmaa (Recipient), May 2004
Prize: Prizes and awards
Award for a prominent young researcher 2006
Miina Rautiainen (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Prizes and awards
Award for excellence in academic studies from Metsämiesten säätiö
Janne Rämö (Recipient), 8 Apr 2014
Prize: Prizes and awards
Datasets
Hyytiälän kaukokartoituskoekenttä
Korpela, I. S. (Creator), Ilkka Korpela, 2002
http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/HYDE_REF/English_documentation.pdf
Dataset
Press / Media
Embedding circular economy into product design and optimization - European consortium to develop new Master education
01/02/2019
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
”Hävetti, kun loisimme muiden rahoilla” – lapsuuden taloudellinen epävarmuus kalvaa vielä aikuisenakin
31/01/2019
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Metsäalan koulutuksen kehittäminen -seminaari
10/01/2019
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media