Nikula, Ari

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• landscape ecology
• geographic information systems (GIS)
• applied zoology

Research Projects

Current

• Capfor - Capacity building in forest management
  
• Control of vertebrate damages in forestry
  
• Geographical information systems and multi-objective decision support methods for multiple use forestry
  
• Green infrastructures for health in the future living environments (GreenHealth)
  
• Impact of climate change on forest damage by mammals
  
• Increasing the ecological connections and coherence of the Natura 2000 network in South-west Lapland (NATNET)
  
• Socioecological tools for the planning of tourist destinations in Kainuu
  

Former

• Damage caused by cervid species and controlling methods
  
• Feeding behaviour of Cervidae species and the risk of damage in young stands
  
• Methods, models and goals of multi-objective forest planning
  
• Modelling the effect of climate change on phytomass with a GIS
  
• Models, planning and decision support for multi-functional forestry
  
• Population dynamics of forest pests,their influences on different tree species, population estimates and forest protection
  
• Protection of forest biodiversity in multi-objective forest planning
  
• Regional aspects of the societal and forestry effects of cervids in Finland
  
• Resource Technology Conference'98 (RT'98)
  
• Society's cervid population targets and their effects on forestry, bio-diversity and forest ecosystem management - a pilot study
  
• Sustainable development of the Pechora region in a changing environment and society SPICE
  
• Sustainable multiple use of forests in northern Lapland
  
• The Lapland Forest Damage Project
  
• The assessment and control of risks caused by forest pest insects in a changing environment
  
• World Forests, Society and Environment -II
  

Contacts

Keywords: GIS, forest pests, geographical information systems, habitat modelling