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In summer of 2022 we started the field measurements in Selkie fire area (6 hectares of forest burned in Eastern Finland in summer of 2021). The area is owned by Snowchange Cooperative, and it will be allowed to develop under natural succession after the forest fire. Intensive field measurements will take place to: assess the […]

Biomasses from South African savannah and from boreal forest (vegetation, litter and humus from Scots pine forest, Finland) are burned in laboratory conditions of ILMARI research unit. Journey of the boreal biomass sample…

Disturbances and biogeochemistry research group focuses on the effects of disturbances on the biogeochemical cycles in boreal and sub-arctic forests, by linking disturbances (fire, wind, ungulates, etc.) and biogeochemical processes. Description of our current and previous projects you can find from here Our previous activities you can also find from our old blog page.

New paper by Ribeiro-Kumara et al., 2022, assessed the short- to medium-term effects of fire type on soil C fluxes of mixed jack pine and black spruce forest stands in Canada. Our study shows that both fire types can alter C fluxes in the short to medium term through changes in vegetation and the soil […]

New paper by Orumaa et al. (2022) studied the long-term patterns in species diversity, cover and composition of vascular plants and bryophytes after forest fire and the site-related factors behind them. Research was carried out in northwestern Estonia, using a chronosequence of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)stands, located on nutrient poor sandy soils, where fires […]

Disturbances and Biogeochemistry Team would like to inform you all, that we are back in new location! As, all the key persons of the team are working now in University of Eastern Finland, we needed to move our web/blog page. Our previous activities you can still find from our old blog page, but all important […]