Research at the Biodiversity Unit
Research at Biodiversity Unit focuses broadly on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and –services.
The research infrastructure including the botanical garden and two field stations, long-term experiments and environmental monitoring datasets and scientific collections provides an excellent support for multidisciplinary research on topical questions such as climate change, biodiversity crisis, and the sustainable use and protection of natural resources in both natural and man-made environments.
In addition to its own research, the Biodiversity Unit promotes multidisciplinary research at the university and serves as a showcase for public outreach.
Our research
New publications
Step-constrained self-avoiding walks on finite grids (2026)
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Soil phytolith assemblages reflect palm community composition in western Amazonia (2026)
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Species functional traits affect regional and local dominance across western Amazonian forests (2025)
Journal of Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Tekemättömyyden hinta on Saaristomerellä suolainen (2025)
Turun Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article)
Rethinking the good life amid the ecological crisis: The interplay between eco‐anxiety, nature connection and well‐being (2025)
People and Nature
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Music Festivals and Individualised Sociality: Investigating the Experience of Solo Festival Attendees (2025)
Event Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Wildlife Diversity in Global Team Sport Branding (2025)
Bioscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution (2025)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Human contributions to global soundscapes are less predictable than the acoustic rhythms of wildlife (2025)
Nature Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Tutkijat selvittivät Suomessa leviävän sammakkolajin ruokalistan: Ahnaat kurnuttajat syövät kaiken, mitä kiinni saavat (2025)
Helsingin Sanomat
(E1 Popularised article)