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Raisa Mäkipää @raisamakipaa.bsky.social · 13d

yle.fi/a/74-20183806 avohakkuiden välttäminen kuusivaltaisilla turvemailla vähentäisi ojien kunnostustarvetta, vesistökuormitusta ja ilmastopäästöjä. Kiertoajan jatkaminen harventamalla ja poimintahakkuin on taloudellisesti kannattavin vaihtoehto, jos metsä on terve ja siellä on eri kokoisia puita.

Ympäri Suomea hakataan matalaksi metsää, jota ei pitäisi — katso tilanne omalla alueellasi

Osa metsänomistajista on joko rahan tai ilmaston takia lopettanut avohakkuut runsasravinteisissa suometsissä. Tilastojen mukaan suurin osa silti hakkaa nämäkin metsät surutta.

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Raisa Mäkipää @raisamakipaa.bsky.social · 14d

Pasilassa. Kohta valmiina haastatteluun klo 20.30 alkavassa uutislähetyksessä.

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 28d

This autumn, don't miss the #HoliSoils webinar series 🌱

This six-part series will explore cutting-edge approaches to #SoilHealth, monitoring, #biodiversity, peatlands & microbial processes, with expert presentations and space for discussion!

Find out more & register ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-la...

HoliSoils launches webinar series in autumn - HoliSoils

HoliSoils is hosting an autumn webinar series addressing soils and climate. Sessions will highlight new approaches to monitoring, biodiversity, peatlands and microbial processes, with opportunities fo...

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 19d

📢 One week to go! Join us for the second session of the #HoliSoils webinar series: How biochemistry may support microbiology?

📅 23 September, 11:00 – 11:45 CEST
Open to researchers, policy-makers, & anyone interested in #SoilHealth, #forests, & climate resilience!

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HoliSoils Webinar Series - How biochemistry may support microbiology? New tools and perspectives - HoliSoils

Join us on 23 September 2025 (12:00–12:45 EEST) for the second session of the HoliSoils webinar series, featuring Dr. Bartosz Adamczyk from the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 16d

Do not miss the second session of the #HoliSoils webinar series tomorrow!

🔬 How biochemistry may support microbiology? New tools and perspectives
🎙️ Speaker: Bartosz Adamczyk from @luke.fi
📅 23 September, 11:00 – 11:45 CEST

Find out more about this event ⬇️
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HoliSoils Webinar Series - How biochemistry may support microbiology? New tools and perspectives - HoliSoils

Join us on 23 September 2025 (12:00–12:45 EEST) for the second session of the HoliSoils webinar series, featuring Dr. Bartosz Adamczyk from the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).

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Raisa Mäkipää @raisamakipaa.bsky.social · 21d

See you soon online. This exciting webinar on Challenges in modelling microbial interactions in decomposition will kick-off webinar series of the HoliSoils project. Full program for Sept-Oct holisoils.eu/webinars/

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 5

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While the findings are not from the #HoliSoils project, we are proud to see one of our partners, Petr Baldrian (from the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences), among the co-authors of this study 🔎🗺️🍄‍🟫

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 5

The global distribution of mycorrhizal fungal #biodiversity is largely unknown 🔎🗺️🍄‍🟫

Now, a groundbreaking study that indicates less than 10% of predicted mycorrhizal richness hotspots currently exist in protected areas!

Read the full publication ⬇️
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Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature

Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 7

🌲Thinning is a common #ForestManagement practice, but how does it impact #carbon dynamics across different #forest types?

A recent #HoliSoils study explores this question in an upland forest on mineral #soil and a drained peatland forest 🔎🌱🏞️

📖 Find out more ⬇️
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How does thinning affect forest carbon? A look at an upland and a drained peatland forest - HoliSoils

Thinning, the practice of removing some trees to help others grow better, changes how much carbon a forest stores or releases. We studied this effect in two

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 18

Mixed #forests outperform spruce plantations in carbon fight!🌲

A 24-year field study, led by M. Bosela and peers at Technical University Zvolen, part of #HoliSoils, finds that Norway spruce plantations are more vulnerable than neighbouring mixed forests.

Full story ➡️ holisoils.eu/mixed-forest...

Mixed forests outperform spruce plantations in carbon fight - HoliSoils

A 24-year field experiment in Slovakia finds that Norway spruce plantations are more vulnerable to drought, pest outbreaks and soil carbon losses than

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 19

📅 Mark your calendars for the first session of the #HoliSoils webinar series:

📣 On 17 September discuss microbial communities and soil carbon modeling with @manzonilab.bsky.social, Elisa Bruni, and Erik Schwarz!

Discover more ⬇️
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HoliSoils Webinar Series - Challenges in modelling microbial interaction in SOC decomposition - HoliSoils

Join us on 17 September 2025 (14:00–15:30 CEST) for the first session of the HoliSoils webinar series, organised in collaboration with the IUFRO Task Force T58.

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 25

🌞 Happy to be featured in @efimedfacility.bsky.social’s #EFIWildfirePrevention campaign!

At #HoliSoils we have investigated how fire affect #soil health 🌱🔥

Dive into our work ⬇️
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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 25

#HoliSoils is collaborating with @iufro.bsky.social Task Force T58 to host the first session of a new webinar series in September!

🔬 Challenges in modelling microbial interaction in SOC decomposition
📅 When? 17 September, 14:00–15:30 CEST
📍 Where? Online

Join us ⬇️
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HoliSoils Webinar Series - Challenges in modelling microbial interaction in SOC decomposition - HoliSoils

Join us on 17 September 2025 (14:00–15:30 CEST) for the first session of the HoliSoils webinar series, organised in collaboration with the IUFRO Task Force T58.

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 26

🌲🌱💚 Can nitrogen fertilisation help fight #ClimateChange?

A new #HoliSoils study led by @luke.fi explores how nitrogen fertilisation of #ForestSoils can enhance #soil organic carbon pools, offering a promising strategy for climate change #mitigation!

Find out more ⬇️
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Nitrogen fertilisation boosts soil carbon storage in Scots pine forests - HoliSoils

Forests play a vital role in global carbon storage, with most of this carbon held belowground. New HoliSoils research by the Natural Research Institute

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Aug 20

Great to see #HoliSoils featured in the new #CORDIS Results Pack on Microbiomes and Holobiomes for a Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy 🔎📰🌱

Discover how our work on climate-smart #ForestSoil management is helping build healthier and more resilient ecosystems ➡️ cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4...

Monitoring and climate-smart management of European forest soils

A wealth of data on European forest soil organisms and soil processes, together with validated forest management practices, will support...

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Jul 7

#NowReading a new study led by #HoliSoils researchers exploring the long-term consequences of clear-cutting on #soil carbon 🌲🪓

🔎 Find out more ⬇️
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HoliSoils research explores the long-term impacts of clear-cutting on soil carbon - HoliSoils

Clear-cutting as a forest management practice is often criticized for its environmental impacts, but the practice and its consequences are actively debated.

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Raisa Mäkipää @raisamakipaa.bsky.social · Jul 5

Regeneration with seedlings, no such soil preparation that change rate of decomposition of SOC. Stand development was simulated with MOTTI forest simulator. This was a simulation study. Our team is also working on experimental soil data from clearcut. Consistent results. Publication coming...

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are proud to share highlights from the 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑖𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒!

🌲🌱💡 From hands-on fieldwork in one of the project's test site to cutting-edge research, #HoliSoils was at the forefront of the event ⬇️
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HoliSoils at the forefront of the 2025 Ecology of Soil Microorganisms conference - HoliSoils

The Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 2025 conference in Helsinki brought together leading researchers focused on soil microbial ecology and ecosystem

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Jul 2

#Forests are under increasing pressure from #ClimateChange but what happens beneath the surface?

A new study by #HoliSoils researchers found that bigger #soil organisms are more affected by #forest disturbances than smaller ones 🌳🕷️🐞🌲

Find out more about this study ⬇️
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Size matters: how forest disturbances disproportionately impact soil organisms - HoliSoils

Worldwide forests are currently facing increasing disturbances caused by climatic and anthropogenic pressures, including those driven by the increasing demand

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Raisa Mäkipää @raisamakipaa.bsky.social · Jul 4

Clear-cutting have major impact on forest C stock. It created negative soil carbon balance for decades, and it took 37-69 years for the forest soils to reach a break-even point where new carbon uptake compensated for the carbon lost.
‪@holisoils.bsky.social‬ ‪@luke.fi‬ doi.org/10.1111/ejss...

Soil Carbon Dynamics During Stand Rotation in Boreal Forests

The utilisation of forest resources is frequently criticised for its adverse environmental impacts. In particular, the widespread use of rotation forestry practices, including clear-cutting, is viewe...

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Jorge Curiel Yuste @doncuriel.bsky.social · Jun 20

After four years of work, involving researchers from several EU institutions in the framework of the project @holisoils.bsky.social, we here present our first study on the impacts of tree logging on the abundance of soil organisms. Spoiler: size matters

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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Elisa found that respiration rates scale as the product of organic carbon and microbial biomass, with minimal effects of microbial diversity. This is a cool result, supporting the use of nonlinear kinetics to interpret data at small scales (lab incubation). Great @holisoils.bsky.social team effort!

Aleksi Lehtonen @aleksileh.bsky.social · Jun 26

If you are interested about soil microbes and their role on decomposition, please check this recent paper by Elisa Bruni and others @holisoils.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @luke.fi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Jun 30

A new study led by #HoliSoils researchers found that microbial biomass, not diversity, is the key to improving predictions of #SoilCarbon and nitrogen mineralisation 💡🔬🗺️

Read this post to learn how these findings could reshape #soil modeling and climate projections ➡️ holisoils.eu/microbial-bi...

Microbial biomass – not diversity – drives soil carbon and nitrogen mineralisation - HoliSoils

Soil microbial communities drive essential ecosystem functioning, driving biogeochemical cycles and contributing to climate regulation. Yet, their complexity

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Jun 16

This week, HoliSoils is joining the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms conference 2025 🌱

📌 Sylwia Adamczyk presented findings from HoliSoils research in the Karstula test site: nitrogen addition increases #SoilCarbon pool but also modifies tree secondary metabolism!

#StayTuned for more updates 🔎

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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · Jun 16

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📊 The results revealed that nitrogen fertilization:
(1) enhanced forest productivity through an increase in microbial residues & #SoilCarbon pool,
(2) changed trees’ secondary metabolism.

These findings bring insights into #ForestSoil dynamics & the role of nitrogen in ecosystem processes!

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