Coordinator (PhD, ecology, University of Turku)       Contact information email: firstname.surname@syke.fi Phone: +358 505 020 272 Finnish......

Senior researcher   PhD (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Contact information firstname.lastname@syke.fi +358 295 251 523 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke......

Researcher Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Finnish Environment Institute Syke Quality of information /Novel monitoring Visiting address: Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki ......

More information  Project info In Finnish: Sisävesien monimuotoisuuden mallinnus ja lajikadon arviointi biologisten seuranta-aineistojen avulla (VESIBIO) Jukka Aroviita , ...

Approximately 24,300 cormorant nests were counted in Finland in the summer of 2021. The first successful inland nesting was confirmed in Päijät-Häme. The nesting population in Finland has varied by on......

  Shipping contributes to the uncontrolled introduction of invasive species to the Baltic Sea, which has severe environmental and economic consequences. A successor of the initi...

“Impacts of EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 for Finland” is a study by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), which produced background informat......

Climate change exerts great pressure for change on species and biodiversity. A recent study conducted by the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Environment Institute indicates that the few moth an......

Backgroud Currently, Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring is conducted using a standardized microscopy method. The resulting data are used for ecological status assessment and for eutrophicat...

Background The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 ”Bringing nature back into our lives” includes several ambitious targets for protecting biodiversity and restoring habitats. For this project, th...

Project description Taxa Identification with Machine Learning Enhanced by DNA Metabarcoding (TIMED) proposes combining DNA metabarcoding and optical machine learning in a novel interleaved way t...

Approximately 25,760 cormorant nests were counted in the Finnish coastal areas in the summer of 2020. In the past five years, the nesting population has varied by only a few per cent. However, there i......

The objective of this contract is to further develop an operational service where marine data on marine species is made interoperable and freely available and to further develop data products based o...

Project description I will develop machine learning algorithms to conquer challenges typically encountered automated image-based identification in biomonitoring. The considered challenges are i)...

Species in our country's largest order of insects are increasingly under threat. In an assessment of threatened species made public in the spring, about 16 % of our species of Hymenoptera were assesse......

Approximately 25,700 cormorant nests were counted in Finnish sea areas in the summer of 2019. This represents a decrease of 4%, or 1,000 nests, in comparison to the previous year. With the cormorant n......

A new assessment of threatened species indicates an increasing loss of biodiversity in Finnish nature. Of the 22 000 species evaluated, 11.9% were classified as threatened, compared to 10.5% in the pr......

Many of the plants on northern mountains depend on the snow melting late in spring and summer. Snow provides shelter from winter extreme events for plants but at the same time it limits the length of ......

The posters are in chronological and alphabetical order. This is not a complete collection of Zonation posters. 2018   Ranking Natura 2000 habitats and ...

The habitats of species in Finland's rivers will move northward as climate change causes temperatures to rise. In addition, seasonal fluctuation in the flow of rivers will become more irregular than i......