🌲 Does intensive forest management disrupt co-evolutionary relationships between bilberry and its microbial partners?

Sebastian von Freymann's PhD research investigates how clear-cutting affects mycorrhizal colonisation and rhizosphere fungal communities associated with bilberry. #RECSeminar

Bilberry picking is a beloved part of Finnish culture. 🫐 But how does intensive forest management affect these plants, their microbiome, and their risk of disease? Sara Leino explored these questions at this week’s #RECseminar.

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🌲 Clearcutting has huge implications on local plant communities and abiotic conditions. It is less well known, what happens to microbes.

In this week's #RECSeminar, @sonjasaine.bsky.social explored how forest management affects leaf microbial communities in the Finnish forest understory. 🦠

How can we study spatial population structure and connectivity in Finnish biodiversity under global change?

This week, Mahtab Yazdanian introduced us to the topic at the #RECseminar. A lively brainstorming session followed, and and we can't wait to hear more about the project in the future! 🔥

Mikhail Shubin at the #RECseminar presenting their recent article on how environmental drivers shape fish assemblages in the Baltic Sea.

🐟 From 2007-2023, changes in fish communities mirrored projected climate-driven salinity reductions.

Read the article: doi.org/10.1093/ices...

How does clear-cutting affect rhizosphere microbial ecosystems in Finnish forests? 🌳 And what might this mean for plant health and pathogen dynamics? These are some of the questions Jean-Baptiste Floc'h explored today at the #RECseminar

Matti Laukkanen’s research explores the potential benefits of wolf recolonisation in Finland, including possible reductions in deer–vehicle collisions and damage to agriculture and forestry. 🐺

📷 A photo from last week, when Matti introduced us to the topic at the #RECseminar.

Today we had a full house as guest speaker Jussi Mäkinen from the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) discussed the use of new data streams for detecting global change. Thank you, Jussi, for taking the time to visit us! #RECSeminar