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• Contrasting responses of vascular plants and bryophytes to present and past connectivity in unmanaged grasslands 

  Järvenpää, Suvi; Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit; Pitkämäki, Tinja; Lampinen, Jussi (Springer, 2023)

  The area of semi-natural grasslands has decreased dramatically causing many grassland specialist species to persist in small habitat fragments. Furthermore, ecological communities once shaped by disturbances related to ...

• Road verges provide alternative habitats for some, but not all, meadow plants 

  Oldén, Anna; Pitkämäki, Tinja; Halme, Panu; Komonen, Atte; Raatikainen, Kaisa J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)

  Questions Agricultural intensification has led to the decline of biodiverse meadows and other semi-natural grasslands. Road verges offer potential alternative habitats for meadow species, but they may not be suitable for ...

• Conservation of traditional rural biotopes in Finland : a social-ecological approach 

  Raatikainen, Kaisa J. (University of Jyväskylä, 2018)

  This research focuses on conservation of traditional rural biotopes, which are biodiverse meadows and wood-pastures that are dependent on management through grazing or mowing. These low-intensity management actions ...

• “Face the cow” : reconnecting to nature and increasing capacities for pro-environmental agency 

  Raatikainen, Kaisa J.; Juhola, Katja; Huhmarniemi, Maria; Peña-Lagos, Hugo (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Arts-based practices can support sustainability, combined with research that points out needs for intervention. We practiced environmental sensitivity and dialogic art with fifth-grade school pupils as part of an International ...

• Ectomycorrhizal fungi in wood-pastures : Communities are determined by trees and soil properties, not by grazing 

  Tervonen, Kaisa; Oldén, Anna; Halme, Panu (Elsevier BV, 2019)

  Traditional rural biotopes such as wood-pastures are species-rich environments that have been created by low-intensity agriculture. Their amount has decreased dramatically during the 20th century in whole Europe due to the ...