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Researches suggest that to secure high levels of multiple forest ecosystem services in the future, they should be targeted in forest planning already now. Picture: University of Jyväskylä/Maria Triviño

Intensive forestry reduces ecosystem services and slows down their recovery

Intensive forestry that prioritizes timber production threatens to have long-lasting negative effects on other forest ecosystem services, finds a new study recently published in European Journal of Forest Research.

Viljandin maakunnassa sijaitseva Vörtsjärvi on päätutkimuskohde Viron, Suomen ja Tanskan vesistötutkijoita yhdistävässä TREICLAKE-projektissa. Kuva: Jyväskylän yliopisto/Anna Kuparinen

International project supports Estonian lake research and European collaboration

Freshwater ecosystems and their unique biota are highly vulnerable to local and global human stressors.

Otso Ovaskainen is leading an internationally unique study in which the diversity of nature is mapped at the same time in over 450 locations all over the world. Credit: University of Jyväskylä

New Academy Professor Otso Ovaskainen is a world-class expert in ecological modelling: he heads one-of-a-kind global research exploring the diversity of nature

Academy Professor Otso Ovaskainen started as a professor of mathematical and statistical ecology at the University of Jyväskylä on 2 January 2021.

A Baltic photo competition: share a photo with 300 words and win an ipad!

Tell us about your relationship with the Baltic Sea through your photo for a chance to win this state of the art ipad!

Coronavirus infections among students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science

A number of coronavirus infections have been diagnosed among students of chemistry and biological and environmental science. All chains of corona virus infections have so far been terminated, exposed persons have been traced and are placed in quarantine.

Jyväskylä-based Experimental Ecology as part of international multidisciplinary study of research designs

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science with its comprehensive test design for the national network for monitoring the restoration of peatlands was involved in an international multidisciplinary study on research designs.

Researchers have found natural bioactive agents that act as strong antivirals against human viruses.

Boreal forests are a treasure trove for defeating also coronavirus

Business Finland granted a Research-to-Business funding for the Natura antivirals joint project between University of Jyväskylä and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).

Otso Ovaskainen ja Pasi Ihalainen

Ecologist Otso Ovaskainen and historian Pasi Ihalainen received Academy Professorships

The Academy of Finland decided on Wednesday on funding for ten new research posts as Academy Professor for the period 1 September 2021–31 August 2026.

Kuvassa on Jyväskylästä löydetty faagi, joka tappaa Maailman Terveysjärjestön vaihtoehtoisia hoitomuotoja tarvitsevien patogeenien prioriteettilistan kärjessä olevaa Acinetobacter baumannii -bakteeria. Kuva: Jyväskylän yliopisto/Matti Jalasvuori

Viruses against bacterial diseases

Over 750 000 people die every year due to antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.

Tutkimusaseman altaissa syntyneet raakunpoikaset palautettiin luontoon kasvamaan suojaavissa reikälevyissä. Kuva: Jari Ilmonen/Metsähallitus

Waiting for frosts and ice: the young freshwater pearl mussels have to survive their first winter in river water

What kind of winter is this going to be?

Pohjoisten järvien levä- ja kalabiomassa lisääntyvät lämpötilan ja tuottavuuden noustessa, samalla kalayhteisöt muuttuvat siikavaltaisista kohti särkivaltaisia. Kuva: Kimmo Kahilainen & Brian Hayden

Future lake food webs in subarctic have more biomass and contain more omega-3 fatty acids

Subarctic regions are facing rapid changes in climate and land-use intensity.

23.10.2020 Doctoral student developed a new research method for detecting species-specific extinction risk (Lakka)

In her dissertation, environmental ecologist Hanna-Kaisa Lakka studied how climate change affects conditions in Arctic lakes and ponds, as well as the survival of animals adapted to the cold.

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