Aino-Maija MäättänenAino-Maija Määttänen is a doctoral researcher who investigates ecological connectivity for promoting biodiversity under climate and land use change.
Publications Määttänen et al. 2023. Combined threats of climate change and land use to boreal protected areas with red-listed forest species in Finland. Global Ecology and Conservation. Määttänen et al. 2022. Increasing loss of mature boreal forests around protected areas with red-listed forest species. Ecological processes. |
Julia KemppinenI am the principal investigator of the GEO lab, which is part of the Physical Geography Research Group at the University of Oulu, Finland.
I lead a project on geodiversity-biodiversity relationships under climate change. Read more about the project here. |
Study sites
The GEO lab has on-going biodiversity and climate change investigations and collaborations at several sites across northern Europe, South Africa and Lesotho. The focus is on understanding the general patterns of vascular plant species and their functional traits: which patterns are context-dependent and which are consistent? We relate these patterns to underlying mechanisms by monitoring field-quantified environmental drivers: local temperatures, soil moisture, soil nutrients, and snow conditions. These multi-year and multi-site investigations enable studying plant responses across various temporal scales and spatial extents. Moreover, we investigate geodiversity-biodiversity relationships by relating plant diversity to locally mapped geological, geomorphological, and hydrological geofeatures.