School of Forest Sciences - News

The indicators of ecological, economic and social sustainability are utilised to describe different sustainability dimensions.

The University of Eastern Finland participates in six of the funded FIRI consortia, and funding for the development of infrastructures was granted to all faculties of the university.

“Meaningful living on this planet Earth requires that we understand the interactions between humans, machines and nature,” says Mikko Vastaranta, the University of Eastern Finland’s newly appointed Professor of Forest-based Bioeconomy.

“With good working life skills, forestry graduates are sure to secure employment,” says the University of Eastern Finland’s newly appointed Professor of Forest Technology Kalle Kärhä.

By combining nationwide airborne laser scanning data and data on berries collected in connection with forest inventories, it is possible to make small-scale berry yield predictions for an entire country, according to a new study between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the University of Eastern Finland, and Natural Resources Institute Finland.

The interdependence of the solutions is an essential factor in terms of understanding further perspectives of Nordic forest solutions in Russia. The centrepiece of the solutions is intensive forest management.

A new spatial modelling study across over 81,000 landscapes in Europe shows that large-scale deployment of perennial biomass plantations can effectively reduce nitrogen emissions to water and soil loss by wind erosion.

MSc Dongxia Wu’s dissertation designed and implemented experiments to provide solutions for the appropriate precondition of economically important species in forestry and horticulture.

In peatlands, the choice of the silvicultural system between rotation forestry and continuous cover forestry may have a decisive role for carbon dynamics since it directly interacts with the soil water table.

An international research team has now determined the annual contribution made by deadwood to the global carbon cycle and quantified the importance of insects in the decomposition of wood for the first time.