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Model Forests in the Baltic Region

Facts & Reviews
23.05.2013

The International Model Forest Network (IMFN) is a global community that works towards the common goal of sustainable managing forest-based landscapes through the Model Forest approach. The IMFN is comprised of all member Model Forests around the world.

Finnish forest owners are getting older, but what does that mean for the timber industry and the national economy?

Facts & Reviews
07.05.2013

 

A new study shows that the average age of forest owners in Finland is on the rise and that Finns are paying more and more attention to immaterial values related to forests.

Some facts about Finnish forest ownership and the report in a “nut-shell”:

 

FORest Management Options for enhancing the MITigation potential of European forests – FORMIT

Facts & Reviews
08.04.2013

 

The FORMIT (FORest Management Options for enhancing the MITigation potential of European forests)  project sets to develop key criteria, know-how and methodologies for assessing forest management strategies that explicitly focus on the mitigation potential of European forests, taking into account regional differences.

Thus, the overarching goal of the project is to investigate the associated risk, conflicting or even contradicting issues in managing forest for carbon mitigation.

Fungi carbon sequestration in northern forests. Scientists find it is more important than initially believed.

Facts & Reviews
30.03.2013

 

Scientists in Sweden found that most of the carbon that is sequestered in northern forests is stored thanks to fungi that live on and in tree roots, rather than via dead needles, moss and leaf matter.

The INTEGRAL project and its relevance for the NB region

Facts & Reviews
11.03.2013

The recently launched project: Future-Oriented Integrated Management of European Forest Landscapes (short: INTEGRAL) is a four-year collaboration project (from 01.11. 2011 to 01.11.2015) of universities and R&D institutes working on solutions for better forest management in Europe.

Collaboration in the NB region and the many advantages it offers. The case of Swedish-Finnish partnership-aiming to secure forest plant breeding material suited for a future climate.

Facts & Reviews
07.03.2013

 

The recently finalized project NOVELTREE  (www.noveltree.eu ) has resulted in a number of valuable research results and publications on genetic breeding of forest trees.        

                

The CARBONES project - understanding CO2 fluxes and stocks from European forests

Facts & Reviews
01.03.2013

 

The European Forest Institute (EFI) is involved in the forest related DataStream development to provide information on Carbon stock and fluxes of European forests in the newly launched CARBONES project.


Conservation efforts are becoming visible. The numbers of birds are increasing.

Facts & Reviews
28.02.2013

 

Recent studies show that birds are benefiting from conservation efforts under the new approaches of Swedish forest management. 

The Swedish forest management system has been receiving a lot of criticism related to its biodiversity and nature conservation approach. The intensively managed forest land, short rotation periods, extensive monocultures with no deciduous tree species and lack of old growth forest are just a few of the weakly represented  approaches in the Swedish forest management.

Seasonal changes mapped by satellite

Facts & Reviews
08.02.2013

 

The recently completed SNSproject Satellite-based mapping of the growing season in northern Fennoscandia and neighbouring parts of NW Russia (SNS-108) tackled the challenge of using remotesensing data to map the start and end of the growing season, and also to monitor the ecological impacts of a changing climate.

by Anne Tolvanen

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