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Luonnon ennallistaminen on käsitteenä aikansa elänyt
2014
Ihmistoiminta on muuttanut ja yhä muuttaa luonnontilaisia ekosysteemejä agro- ja teknosysteemeiksi. Nämä muutokset ovat kiihdyttäneet biologisen monimuotoisuuden häviämistä ja käynnistäneet niin sanotun kuudennen sukupuuttoaallon. Koska ihmiselo tukeutuu pitkälti luonnon monimuotoisuuteen, on monimuotoisuuden turvaamiseksi tehty sekä kansallisia että kansainvälisiä päätöksiä ja sopimuksia. Monimuotoisuutta voidaan turvata ennallistamalla tai hoitamalla muuttuneita ekosysteemejä. Ennallistaminen ja luonnonhoito ovat kuitenkin epämääräisiä käsitteitä. Uudet kattotermit, ekologinen interventio ja sitä tutkiva tieteenala interventioekologia, selventävät käsitteellisiä ongelmia. nonPeerReviewed
Metsäluonnon turvaava suojelun kohdentaminen Suomessa
2021
Tässä mietinnössä Luontopaneeli keskittyy Suomen pinta-alaltaan suurimman ja siten lajien kannalta merkityksellisimmän elinympäristön eli boreaalisten metsien suojelun kohdentamiseen. EU:n BD-strategiassa mainitut käsitteet vanha metsä ja luonnontilainen metsä eivät ole yksiselitteisiä, ja niiden määritelmiin voidaan perustellusti esittää erilaisia näkökohtia. Tämän ei tule estää rationaalisten suojelusuunnitelmien tekoa. Luontopaneeli korostaa, että käsitteiden määrittelyn sijaan tärkeintä on EU:n BD-strategian tavoitteiden eli luonnon monimuotoisuuden säilymisen ja kokonaisheikentymättömyyden saavuttaminen. Tässä mietinnössä Luontopaneeli esittää laskelman, jolla Suomi voi metsien osalta …
Avointa biodiversiteettitietoa
2016
National high-resolution conservation prioritisation of boreal forests
2023
The continuous decline of forest biodiversity highlights the importance of the development of cost-effective and ecologically sustainable land-use planning approaches. Spatial conservation prioritisation (SCP) can be regarded as a useful tool for this challenge. We produced high-resolution, national scale SCP analyses to identify unprotected forest areas that host valuable forest biodiversity. We used stand-based modelled dead wood potential (DWP) data as a primary surrogate for conservation value. In addition, data on forestry operations that have negative impacts on biodiversity, connectivity between forest areas, the observations of red-listed forest species, connectivity to forest habit…
Species and genetic diversity relationships in benthic macroinvertebrate communities along a salinity gradient
2022
Background Species- and genetic diversity can change in parallel, resulting in a species-genetic diversity correlation (SGDC) and raising the question if the same drivers influence both biological levels of diversity. The SGDC can be either positive or negative, depending on whether the species diversity and the genetic diversity of the measured species respond in the same or opposite way to drivers. Using a traditional species diversity approach together with ultra-conserved elements and high throughput sequencing, we evaluated the SGDCs in benthic macrofauna communities in the Baltic Sea, a geologically young brackish water sea characterised by its steep salinity gradient and low species …
Predicting valuable forest habitats using an indicator species for biodiversity
2020
Intensive management of boreal forests impairs forest biodiversity and species of old-growth forest. Effective measures to support biodiversity require detection of locations valuable for conservation. We applied species distribution models (SDMs) to a species of mature forest, the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis, goshawk), that is often associated with hotspots of forest biodiversity. We located optimal sites for the goshawk on a landscape scale, assessed their state under intensified logging operations and identified characteristics of goshawks' nesting sites in boreal forests. Optimal sites for the goshawk covered only 3.4% of the boreal landscape and were mostly located outside pro…
Sectoral policies as drivers of forest management and ecosystems services: A case study in Bavaria, Germany
2023
European countries have national sectoral polices to regulate and promote the provision of a wide range of forest ecosystems services (FES). However, potential incoherencies among these policies can negatively affect the efficient provision of FES. In this work, we evaluated the coherence among three national policies from Germany and their ability to effectively provide FES in the future: the Forest Strategy 2020 (FS), the National Strategy on Biological Diversity (BDS), and the German National Policy Strategy on Bioeconomy (BES). Using forest inventory data from the Federal State of Bavaria, we simulated a range of forest management options under three climate trajectories for 100 years i…
Urban forest soils harbour distinct and more diverse communities of bacteria and fungi compared to less disturbed forest soils.
2022
Anthropogenic changes to land use drive concomitant changes in biodiversity, including that of the soil microbiota. However, it is not clear how increasing intensity of human disturbance is reflected in the soil microbial communities. To address this issue, we used amplicon sequencing to quantify the microbiota (bacteria and fungi) in the soil of forests (n=312) experiencing four different land uses, national parks (set aside for nature conservation), managed (for forestry purposes), suburban (on the border of an urban area) and urban (fully within a town or city), which broadly represent a gradient of anthropogenic disturbance. Alpha diversity of bacteria and fungi increased with increasin…
Trade-offs among intensive forestry, ecosystem services and biodiversity in boreal forests
2018
Finnish forests are used extensively for timber production but are also providers of other ecosystem services and harbor unique biodiversity. The ecosystem services approach has so far been used marginally in the context of Finnish forestry; however, due to the multiple values associated with Finnish forests and the impacts forestry operations have on forest ecosystems, it is clearly applicable in this context. In this thesis, I studied the occurrence and severity of trade-offs among ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in Finnish forests. I used forest inventory data, forest growth simulations, and multi-objective optimization to reveal how the severity of the trade-offs varies…