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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'm a community ecologist with a focus on functional ecology of primary producers, in varied ecosystems. On this postdoc I am interested in exploring the effects of environmental change on ecosystem functioning via diversity, functional traits, and plant-fungal interactions.

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 am working as Grant-Funded Researcher on my doctoral project in NorEcoFun group. I study ecological impacts of white-tailed deer on traditional rural habitats in Southwestern Finland with a special focus on plant populations and communities. My project is funded by Wihuri Foundation.

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 at the engineering school AgroParisTech where I have studied forest ecology and natural habitat management. I am currently working to disentangle the processes behind plant establishment after clearcutting and how they are related to plant functional traits. Plant-animal interactions are my main topics of interest, particularly when they are connected to plant dispersal processes and how they could influence the spatial distribution of plants.