Henttonen, Heikki

Ph.D., Professor

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Expertise

• forest zoology
• population ecology
• mammals
• rodents
• voles
• lemmings
• rodent-born diseases and parasites
• hantaviruses
• rodent damage in forestry
• plant shelters

Research Projects

Current

• Emerging diseases in a Changing European Environment (EDEN)
  
• Impact of climate change on forest damage by mammals
  
• Rodent research
  

Former

• Assessing quantity, quality and value of wood raw-material for timber trade and procurement
  
• Assessment of magnitude and importance of vector-borne diseases in Europe
  
• Developing methods for afforestation of (former agricultural) fields
  
• Effect of forest management on insect and microbe diversity
  
• Field afforestation in EU-Finland
  
• Forest damage diagnostic service
  
• Genetic basis of forest tree breeding
  
• Hantavirus Infections in Europe: Molecular Virology, Epidemiology and Ways of Control
  
• Inspection of plant protection products
  
• Mechanisms of resistance of forest trees
  
• Methods, models and goals of multi-objective forest planning
  
• Microtine cycles and prevention of damage by microtine rodents
  
• Resistance breeding of forest trees
  
• Rodent cycles, damage and diseases
  
• SA-LAAKKONEN JUHA (YLEISKUSTANNUSOSUUS)
  

Contacts

Keywords: Puumala virus, hantavirus, lemmings, microtine cycles, plant shelters, population ecology, rodent damage in forestry, rodent parasites, rodent-borne diseases, rodents, shrews, small mammals, voles