Mira Kajanus

Currently my work focuses on identifying current future primary and old-growth forests and their biodiveristy in Europe. We also aim to predict the future old-growth and primary forests and their biodiversity under various climate and forest management scenarious. For this I utilize joint species distribution models (JSDMs) for comprehensive data analysis with big data. Previously, my work has centered on evaluating and refining monitoring methods to measure biodiversity across various taxonomic groups on a national scale in Finland. I employed advanced automated high-throughput (DNA-, audio- and image) techniques to assess the diversity of fungi, birds, bats, mammals and invertebrates. The aim was to establish a sustainable, long-term monitoring system for these species. A significant aspect of my research involved developing practical pipelines to derive biomonitoring measures from the collected data.