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I am a community ecologist studying the role of biodiversity for stability of plant communities and functions they provide under a changing environment. What makes communities sensitive to change in the abiotic or biotic environment? What enforces their stability? I am curious about the role of functional traits. Are functional dominance and diversity related to stability of communities and provision of ecosystem functions? As methods, I use long-term observational data to explore large-scale patterns, and combine them with field and greenhouse experiments to test specific hypothesis of possible drivers behind the large-scale patterns.

I am working as Doctoral Researcher in NorEcoFun exploring the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. I am interested in plant ecology, especially plant functional traits. How do community assembly processes affect traits within communities? What impact does climate change have on these relationships? With boreal forest and tundra communities as my research systems, my aim is to find answers to these questions.

I’m a Master’s student in the Integrative Plant Sciences program at the University of Helsinki. In my Master’s thesis, I study traits related to light and moisture in bryophyte communities.

I am studying in the Master’s Programme in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Helsinki. I am especially interested in the nutrient cycling in boreal forests, and in my Master’s thesis I concentrate on the effects of bryophyte layer and forest successional stage on nitrogen cycling.

I am a Master’s student studying biology at the University of Helsinki. In my studies I am specializing in ecology and evolution, and my interests are conservation biology, functions and interactions in plant communities, and the microbiome of the soil and its changes due to human impact.