Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment has granted 6.6 million euros of funding to five new Academy Research Fellows, one Clinical Researcher and seven new Academy Projects.

Nine Academy Projects and four Academy Research Fellows secured funding.

A newly published study reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionarily more differentiated than previously known.

Published in Heredity, a recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland explored sexual selection in humans by investigating whether female odour based mating preferences could predict how compatible male and female gametes are.

Grants were awarded for PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers for a research period abroad.

MSc Olusegun Olaitan Akinyemi's thesis provides methodological insights into sensor and image-based phenotyping for characterization of forest tree responses to environmental and stress conditions in ecophysiological studies.

Rapid climate change is upending established plant diversity and growth patterns in the Arctic, with species blooming in some areas and declining in others, a recent study published in Nature suggests.

Vincent Biard, MSc, explored key aspects of the seal behaviour during the moulting season, including spatial, temporal and social fidelity patterns.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland measured post-restoration Sphagnum moss layer growth on 18 peatland sites in Finland 10 years after restoration.

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the northern latitudes have nearly cancelled out that critical storage capacity in the permafrost region, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.