Supervised doctoral students:
Petri Martikainen (PhD completed in 2000; homepage):
Effects of forest management on beetle diversity, with implications for species conservation and forest protection
Seppo Rouvinen (PhD completed in 2002):
Amount, diversity and spatio-temporal availability of dead wood in old forests in boreal Fennoscandia
Maarit Similä (PhD completed in 2002):
Patterns of beetle diversity in Fennoscandian boreal forests: Effects of forest age, naturalness and fertility, and co-variation with other forest-dwelling taxa
Atte Komonen (PhD completed in 2003; homepage):
Insects in wood-decaying fungi: ecology, diversity and response to forest management
Anneli Uotila (PhD completed in 2004):
Vegetation patterns in managed and semi-natural boreal forests in eastern Finland and Russian Karelia
Päivi Hokkanen (PhD completed in 2006):
Vegetation patterns of boreal herb-rich forests in the Koli region, eastern Finland: classification, environmental factors and conservation aspects
Esko Hyvärinen (PhD completed in 2006):
Green-tree retention and controlled burning in restoration and conservation of beetle diversity in boreal forests
Satu Löfman (PhD completed in 2006):
Changes in forest landscape structure in southern Finland in the late 1900’s
Tero Heinonen (PhD completed in 2007):
Developing spatial optimization in forest planning
Kaisa Junninen (PhD completed in 2007):
Conservation of polypore diversity in managed forests of boreal Fennoscandia
Kaisa Raitio (PhD completed in 2008):
"You can't please everyone" - conflict management practises, frames and institutions in Finnish state forests
Supervised MSc students (most of the theses are written in Finnish):
Tero Kiskonen (MFor thesis, 1997):
Group behaviour and outbreak propensity of the sawflies
Christopher J. Green (MFor thesis, 1998):
Management of the Capercaillie lek sites with landscape ecological forest planning
Anne Väänänen (MSc thesis, 1998):
The effect of isolation on breeding birds on protected forest areas
Brian Kleinhenz (MFor thesis, 1999):
Assessing the accuracy with which the LAI-2000 plant canopy analyzer detects changes in leaf area index in Norway Spruce stands
Laura Melkinen (MFor thesis, 1999):
Spider communities in semi-natural and managed forests
Tero Laakso (MFor thesis 1999):
Legal regulation of the forest biodiversity protection in Finland and Sweden: a comparative study
Nicola Whitworth (MSc thesis 1999):
Arthropod communities in natural and man-made forest edges
Alison Riggs (MSc thesis 1999):
Ant communities in naturally and artificially isolated forest fragments
Jane Stevens (MSc thesis 1999):
Edge effects on the pollination of the bilberry in natural and artificial forest edges
Anne Lehtonen (MFor thesis, 2000):
Assessment of naturalness by forest history and stumps
Riitta Jalkanen (MFor thesis, 2000):
Plant communities in small lush forests
Alexander Kopf (MFor thesis, 2001):
The impact of beaver on forest ecosystems in the Koli National Park
Cristobal Delgado Matas (MFor thesis, 2001):
The effect of slash-and-burn cultivation on soil properties
Johanna Vääräsmäki (MFor thesis, 2003):
Anthropogenic influence on urban forest park vegetation in southern Finland
Jukka Behm (MFor thesis, 2001):
Soil seed-bank composition in areas with varying fire history
Terhi Kaipainen (MFor thesis, 2001):
Past fire frequencies in mature forest stands in eastern Finland
Veera Tähtö (MFor thesis, 2001):
The effect of fire on growth dynamics of the Scots pine
Elli Haapamäki (MFor thesis, 2001):
Needle dynamics of a Scots pine stand in North Karelia between 1960-1995
Rauli Perkiö (MFor thesis, 2003):
Fire history and aspen populations in protected old growth forests
Arto Vilén (MFor thesis, 2002):
Mortality factors of aspen trees in protected areas
Jarkko Laamanen (MFor thesis, 2001):
Mosaic patterns of fire intensity in pine-dominated forests
Katja Sidoroff (MFor thesis, 2002):
Fire as a mortality factor in boreal forest trees
Katri Kulkki (MFor thesis, 2004):
Landscape-level analysis of protected areas in eastern Finland
Jaana Turunen (MFor thesis, 2002):
Tree recruitment and the intensity of forest fires
Mervi Hakulinen (MSc thesis, 2002):
Short-term impacts of forest fire on ground vegetation
Tommi Kinnunen (MFor thesis,2004)
The effects of fire on fungal infections of pine saplings
Kaisa Törmänen (MFor thesis, 2003)
The effects of fire on the occurrence of pine weevil damage
Osmo Heikkala (MFor thesis, 2003)
Short-term effects of fire and retention trees on carabid beetles in boreal forests
Toni Nevalainen (MFor thesis, 2003)
The effects of timber harvesting on birds of prey
Jaana Heikkala (MFor thesis, 2003)
Polypore fungi assemblages in state-owned mature forests in eastern Finland
Tuomo Reinikainen (MFor thesis, 2006)
Large mammalian herbivores and early forest succession after fire and clear- cutting
Heidi Hyvönen (MFor thesis, 2004)
Size structure of aspen populations in the Koli National Park
Marika Salomäki (MFor thesis, 2005)
Dynamics of retention trees in clear-cut areas in Isojoki, Ostrobothnian area
Eevi Nieminen (MFor thesis, 2006)
Long-term future dynamics of coarse woody debris in Koli National Park
Nina Kivistö (MFor thesis, 2006)
Habitat characteristics important for Capercaillie during the post-fledging period
Salme Närhi (MFor thesis, 2007)
Effects of tornado on soil characteristics and Pinus sylvestris stand in Jouhteninen tornado damage area in North-Carelia
Niko Ilola (MFor thesis, 2008)
Death span of the kelo: how long do dry Scots pine snags stay standing after their death?
Roni Väisänen (MFor thesis, 2008)
Economical effects of maintaining the Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) lekking habitats in a managed boreal fores region in northern Finland
Noora Lankinen (MFor thesis, 2008)
The effect of forest fires and green-tree retention on bark beetles and their associated species
Sanna Kujala (MFor thesis, 2009)
The occurrence of the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in various forest stand structures in the Koli National Park
Mari Sikkilä (MFor thesis, 2009)
Biogeography of polypores living in the Finnish pine forests: ecological specialisation as the explanation of the abundance-distribution relationship