Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

MSc Antti Tenkanen's doctoral thesis shows that Northern Finnish silver birch provenances were clearly distinct from southern ones in many traits.

UEF, together with Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund, will organise the 8th Karelia Symposium under the theme “Food from Wood” in Joensuu on 25 April 2023.

The Saimaa ringed seal is not the only seal species suffering from global warming, as the habitat of seals living in the Arctic is shrinking as we speak.

Freshwater wetlands, floodplains and peatlands have been degraded for several centuries across Europe and continue to be degraded, with the main drivers being large-scale drainage for agriculture, forestry, mining of peat and other materials.

With Finland's climate getting warmer in the future, what can we expect in terms of pollen? In their search for answers to this question, researchers are looking not only at the present and the future, but also into the past.

Professor of Chemical Ecology James Blande and his research group at the University of Eastern Finland focus on plant stress responses and plant-to-plant interactions.

MSc Olfat Abdelsaleheen's thesis provides novel quantitative information on the reproductive biology of the freshwater mussels.

The focus of Professor Marjut Roponen’s research has always been on inhaled exposures and, in particular, on their impact on children’s health. Studies concerning exposures during pregnancy are still rather limited.

Nina Sipari, MSc, used metabolomics as a tool to investigate gene function and stress responses, and to determine possible oxidative stress markers in plants.

How are European freshwater crayfish coping with crayfish plague, introduced crayfish species and environmental pollution?