Forest patch on a flark fen © Aarno Torvinen In METSO forest biodiversity programme a conservation planning software Zonation has been used for better decision-making while enabling c...

Coordinator, MS, Ecology Doctoral Researcher, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 890 /......

The posters are in chronological and alphabetical order. This is not a complete collection of Zonation posters. 2018   Ranking Natura 2000 habitats and ...

For more information concerning the Zonation, please, visit the page “Zonation software”. Zonation software supports more sustainable decision-making in conservation and land-use planning in F...

This page presents projects and research questions from Finland in which the Zonation programme has been used. The list is not comprehensive, and it is updated every now and then. See ...

    InnoForESt analyses and fosters initiatives and networks in six case study regions in Europe, with an aim to explore potentials for the development of policy inst...

Project manager, PhD (Ecology and evolutionary biology) Email: firstname.surname@syke.fi Telephone: 0295 251 043 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Nature solutions Protected ......

Short link to this page: www.syke.fi/projects/BDtargeting This interdisciplinary research project addresses the targeting challenge in allocating the efforts to conserve biodiversity. ...

There are 12 species of harvestmen (Opiliones) and 16 species of pseudoscorpions (Pseudoscorpiones) currently known to occur in Finland. Both species groups are beasts that prey mainly on small...

Research on the ecology and conservation biology of wood-inhabiting fungi has lately been active in northern Europe. Majority of the research has been focusing on a single species group, polypores, w...

The insect order Neuroptera, net-winged species includes some 6000 species of which 57 species have been found in Finland. The close orders Megaloptera and Mecoptera are often included in the Neur...

Calcareous rocks are threatened habitats where exceptionally many rare lichen species grow. Mining and construction are the main threats to these species. Calcareous rocks are also one of the habi...

Planthoppers and leafhoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) are plant-sucking insects, which belong to insect order Hemiptera. Totally over 400 species have hitherto been described from Finland, and 88 of t...

Lake Aulankojärvi © Jouko Lehmuskallio Together with the Natural Resources Institute Finland, SYKE has the main responsibility for the monitoring and evaluation of the METSO Programme. ...

Critically endangered Buxbaumia viridis © Terhi Ryttäri SYKE has the responsibility to manage and update a database of threatened species’ occurrences in Finland. SYKE and Forestry De...

Wilderness at Kirkkonummi © Jouko Lehmuskallio Ministry of the Environment (MoE) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MoAF) are funding research and development projects suppor...

Forest management with fire © Tapio Heikkilä People working at the Biodiversity Centre of SYKE have a long history in research and development of nature management and restoration techn...

Aspen ( Populus tremula ) in autumn foliage © Marja-Leena Nenonen The Forest Biodiversity Programme METSO is based on voluntary forest conservation and management. The programme started...