Senior research scientist © Veikko Somerpuro Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 29 525 2233  Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) ......

Senior research scientist PhD (Forest Economics and Marketing, University of Helsinki) Title of Docent (Ecological Economics, University of Helsinki) Contact information dal......

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

Group Manager Contact information PhD. (Forest Sciences), Docent (Environmental Policy) Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 257 Finnish Environment I......

A fresh review study shows that increased felling reduces carbon sequestered in forests significantly in both boreal and temperate regions. It is often argued that although increased harvesting does r......

The aim of the committee is to develop a usable and acceptable method for identifying forest areas important for biodiversity and to produce openly available map with this method. Our objective is to...

Forest patch on a flark fen © Aarno Torvinen In METSO forest biodiversity programme a conservation planning software Zonation has been used for better decision-making while enabling c...

Climate change adaptation and mitigation are to be studied with the help of data and Artificial Intelligence in a new international research project. Launched in June 2021, EIFFEL will introduce new m......

In the webinar, we represented the core results of our project Governing Digital Commons (GODICO), funded by the Academy of Finland. The main focus of research in the project was on governing open for......

Boreal forests of the Barents Region stretch through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, who are all Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Under the CBD, Aichi Biodiversity Targ...

SYKE’s Professors Eeva Primmer and Mikael Hildén consider Finland’s role in the EU Forest Strategy in their Ratkaisuja blog: Has Finland taken leadership, or has the lobbying resulted in fragmentation......

Successful cooperation between scientists and policymakers has significantly decreased air pollutant emissions in Europe, according to an article recently published in the Ambio journal. Sulphur dioxi......

Senior researcher, development manager PhD, ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Helsinki Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Phone: 0295 251 7......

MSc Pekka Punttila will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled “Ant community structure in successional mosaics of boreal forests " at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universi......

Finnish, Swedish and Russian researchers highlight the ecological effects of forestry in Fennoscandia in five review articles published in the journal Ecological Processes. The summarized research sug......

ENVECO is a one-year project financed by Eurostat grants led by Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) in partnership with Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). The first aim of the project is to...

Reports related to Zonation and Finland are available here in English. 2019 Ecological decision analysis in support of societal decision making: Final report of the Me...

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......

Forests promote health and well-being among school pupils. The Finnish Environment Institute has made an analysis based on spatial data on the location of primary and secondary schools with relation t......

Education supports the achievement of all of the goals of sustainable development put forward by the UN. According to the goal of education for sustainable development, all students on a global scale...