RESTORE

Education

	Anton Kuznetsov in Finnish Lapland making study on decomposition of roots, 2007. Photo: Olga Ignatyeva. Anton is the RESTORE team member, working in the study areas: Vepssky forest, Central Biosphere Forest Reserve, Northern Karelian sites since 2006, collecting material for his PhD.

The project dataset is partly used and the project benefits from the following students' final work:

1. Bulavina Ekaterina. 2009. Estimate of carbon (C) pools in coarse woody debris in the forests of Bolshepolskoje lesnichestvo, Saint-Petersburg region, Russia. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Shorohova (in Russian)
2. Voronov Mikhael. 2009. Estimate of annual carbon (C) turnover in coarse woody debris in the forests of Bolshepolskoje lesnichestvo, Saint-Petersburg region, Russia. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Shorohova (in Russian)
3. Fam An Kyong. 2009. Estimate of biological diversity of ecosystems in the national park Ba Be, Vietnam. 2009. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Shorohova (in Russian)
4. Ignatyeva Olga. 2009. Factors forming the structure of northern boreal pristine Scots pine forests in Karelia. Master Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisors: Ekaterina Shorohova, Viktor Soloviev (in Russian)
5. Baranova Irina. 2009. Application of dendrochronological methods in reconstruction of long-term dynamics of northern boreal pristine Scots pine forests in Karelia. Bachelor Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisors: Ekaterina Shorohova, Viktor Soloviev (in Russian)
6. Khakimulina Tatiana. 2010. Reconstruction of natural disturbance dynamics in pristine Norway spruce forests in Arkhangelsk region, Russia. Master Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Supervisors: Mats Niklasson, Igor Drobyshev, Ekaterina Shorohova, Viktor Soloviev
7. Trubitsyna Ekaterina. 2010. Estimate of decomposition rates of coarse woody debris in Yugyd-Va national park, Komi republic. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Shorohova (in Russian)
8. Fedorova Ekaterina. 2010. Dynamic phases of pristine boreal forests: Vepssky forest case study. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Shorohova (in Russian)
9. Stepanova Svetlana. 2010. Factors of natural regeneration of pristine boreal forests: Vepssky forest case study. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Shorohova (in Russian)
10. Omelchenko, A. 2011. Carbon fluxes in the Lysinsky experimental forest. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Kapitsa (in Russian)
11. Levchenko, I. 2011. The factors influencing decomposition of bark in the "Yugyd-Va" national park. Forest Engineer Thesis, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Academy, Russia. Supervisor: Ekaterina Kapitsa (in Russian)

Oksana Shvedova making the ground vegetation inventory on the permanent sample plot 8 in the Vepssky forest reserve, 2005. Photo: Evgenuy Lemetti. Oksana is the RESTORE team member, working in Vepssky forest since 2002. The results are included in her bachelor, master thesis as well as in her current PhD.

	Ekaterina Kapitsa in Vepssky Forest collecting samples to study coarse woody debris decomposition, 2008. Ekaterina is the RESTORE team member, working in the study areas: Vepssky forest, Central Biosphere Forest Reserve, Northern Karelian sites since 2006. Some results are included in her PhD.

The following students' work has contributed largely to the project:

1. Palviainen, Marjo 2005. Logging residues and ground vegetation in nutrient dynamics of a clear-cut boreal forest. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry, PhD.
2. Lilja, Saara. 2006. Ecological restoration of forests in Fennoscandia: Defining reference stand structures and immediate effects of restoration. University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Forest Ecology. PhD.
3. Rabinowitsch-Jokinen, Ruut. Immediate effects of logging, mounding and stump harvesting on coarse woody debris and epixylic species in managed Norway spruce stands in southern Finland. M.Sc.
4. Hautala, Harri 2008. Disturbance in boreal spruce forest – immediate dynamics from stand to understorey level. University of Helsinki, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, PhD.
5. Kapitsa, Ekaterina. 2008. Decomposition of stumps and logs in European boreal forests. Saint-Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, Department of General Ecology, Anatomy and Physiology of Plants, PhD.

The RESTORE results are used in the courses "Nature Conservation Areas", "Modern problems in Ecology" for graduate students at the Saint Petersburg State Forest Academy.