A5088780417- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
Finnish Environment Institute
2018-2023
University of Helsinki
2014-2019
Biocenter Finland
2014
During the last two decades, forest monitoring and inventory systems have moved from field surveys to remote sensing-based methods. These methods tend focus on economically significant components of forests, thus leaving out many factors vital for biodiversity, such as occurrence species with low economical but high ecological values. Airborne hyperspectral imagery has shown potential tree classification, most common analysis methods, random support vector machines, require manual feature...
Using spatial prioritization, we identify priority areas for the expansion of global protected area network. We a set unprotected key biodiversity (KBAs) that would efficiently complement current network in terms coverage ranges terrestrial vertebrates. show protecting small fraction (0.36%) within KBAs could increase conservation threatened vertebrates by on average 14.7 percentage points. also outside both and KBA networks further KBAs. These are likely to hold populations species poorly...
In the tenth Conference of Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held in Nagoya 2010, it was decided that 17% terrestrial and 10% marine areas should be protected globally by 2020. It also stated conservation decision-making based sound science. Here, we review how recent scientific literature about spatial prioritization analyses macro-ecology corresponds information needs posed Aichi Biodiversity Target 11. A search performed Web Science identify potentially relevant research...
In boreal forests, European aspen (Populus tremula L.) is a keystone species that hosts variety of accompanying including epiphytic lichens. Forest management actions have led to decrease in abundance and subsequent loss suitable habitats this study, we evaluate the environmental responses lichen richness community composition on aspen, focusing potential remote sensing by combined hyperspectral imaging airborne laser scanning identify for We measured different substrate habitat parameters...
Offsets for compensating biodiversity loss are increasingly suggested as a system allocating responsibilities onto those actors who contribute to the loss. As mechanism is outlined new opportunity, expectations need be analyzed relative ensuing changes in rights and over degradation, conservation restoration. In this paper we conduct an analysis of using literature empirical material. Our case Finland, where ecological compensation offsets represent emerging avenue conservation. We find that...
Complementarity and cost-efficiency are widely used principles for protected area network design. Despite the wide use robust theoretical underpinnings, their effects on performance patterns of priority areas rarely studied in detail. Here we compare two approaches identifying management inside global network: 1) a scoring-based approach, recently published analysis 2) spatial prioritization method, which accounts complementarity area-efficiency. Using same IUCN species distribution data...
Abstract The rates of ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss are alarming current conservation efforts not sufficient to stop them. need for new tools is urgent. One approach offsetting: a developer causing habitat provides an improvement in so that the lost ecological value compensated for. Accurate ecologically meaningful measurement losses estimation gains essential reaching no net goal or any other desired outcome offsetting. chosen calculation method strongly influences outcomes....
Suomessa kunnilla ja kaupungeilla on maankäyttäjinä maankäytön suunnittelusta vastaavina tahoina merkittävä asema vastuu luontokadon pysäyttämisessä. Siihen tarvitaan uusia keinoja jo käytössä olevien lisäksi. Ekologinen kompensaatio yksi lisäkeino ehkäistä vähentää luontokatoa, jota väistämättä syntyy esimerkiksi asumiseen liikkumiseen liittyvän rakentamisen muun luontoa nakertavan toiminnan myötä. Ekologisessa kompensaatiossa ihmistoiminnan aiheuttama haitta luonnon monimuotoisuudelle...
<p>Importance of biodiversity is increasingly highlighted as an essential part sustainable forest management. As direct monitoring not possible, proxy variables have been used to indicate site’s species richness and quality. In boreal forests, European aspen (Populus tremula L.) one the most significant proxies for biodiversity. Aspen a keystone species, hosting range endangered hence having high importance in maintaining Still, reliable fine-scale spatial data on...
In boreal forests, European aspen is a keystone species that hosts variety of accompanying including epiphytic lichens, which are indicators for forest conservation values. The presence both and its different lichens sign high-biodiversity area. Forest management actions have led to decrease in abundance subsequent loss suitable habitats lichens. this study, we evaluate the environmental responses lichen richness community composition, focusing on potential remote sensing by combined...
In boreal forests, European aspen is a keystone species that hosts variety of accompanying including epiphytic lichens, which are indicators for forest conservation values. The presence both and its different lichens sign high-biodiversity area. Forest management actions have led to decrease in abundance subsequent loss suitable habitats lichens. this study, we evaluate the environmental responses lichen richness community composition, focusing on potential remote sensing by combined...
<p>Sustainable forest management increasingly highlights the maintenance of biological diversity and requires up-to-date information on occurrence distribution key ecological features in environments. Different proxy variables indicating species richness quality sites are essential for efficient detecting monitoring biodiversity. European aspen (Populus tremula L.) is a minor deciduous tree with high importance maintaining biodiversity boreal forests. Large trees host hundreds...
Biodiversity crisis calls for better knowledge of the status biodiversity, but also drivers and pressures behind ecosystem change vulnerability habitats. There is growing demand biodiversity data decision-making on national, regional global scales. However, operationalized monitoring systems which can integrate remote sensing, in situ modelling are still rare despite that there good co-operation initiatives such as Australian TERN US NEON place. In Finland, we have launched Finnish Ecosystem...