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46
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9830
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4600
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70

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Jari Kouki is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland and has a research focus concentrated in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, notably Insect Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of work include Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Lichen and Fungal Ecology, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Kouki has contributed frequently to scientific literature with a pattern of publications across various journals. Their most prolific publication venue is Forest Ecology and Management, accounting for nine papers. Other venues with contributions include Silva Fennica (three publications), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (two publications), Nature, and Ecology.

Their recent papers include:

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature
  • Partitioning the colonization and extinction components of beta diversity across disturbance gradients, 2020, Ecology
  • A key tree species for forest biodiversity, European aspen (Populus tremula), is rapidly declining in boreal old-growth forest reserves, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Forest disturbances affect functional groups of macrofungi in young successional forests - harvests and fire lead to different fungal assemblages, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • A synthesis of multi-taxa management experiments to guide forest biodiversity conservation in Europe, 2023, Global Ecology and Conservation

Kouki has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Aleksi Nirhamo, Alwin A. Hardenbol, Karoliina Hämäläinen, Sebastian Seibold, and Joakim Hjältén.

Best Publications

  • Retention Forestry to Maintain Multifunctional Forests: A World Perspective

    Lena Gustafsson;Susan C. Baker;Jurgen Bauhus;William J. Beese

  • A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues

    David Lindenmayer;J F Franklin;A. Lohmus;Simon Baker

  • Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity? A meta-analysis

    Katja Fedrowitz;Julia Koricheva;Susan C. Baker;David B. Lindenmayer

  • Forest Fragmentation in Fennoscandia: Linking Habitat Requirements of Wood-associated Threatened Species to Landscape and Habitat Changes

    Jari Kouki;Satu Löfman;Petri Martikainen;Seppo Rouvinen

  • Tree retention as a conservation measure in clear-cut forests of northern Europe: a review of ecological consequences

    Lena Gustafsson;Jari Kouki;Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Saproxylic beetles in managed and seminatural Scots pine forests: quality of dead wood matters

    Maarit Similä;Jari Kouki;Petri Martikainen

  • Challenges of ecological restoration: Lessons from forests in northern Europe

    Panu Halme;Panu Halme;Katherine A. Allen;Ainārs Auniņš;Richard H.W. Bradshaw

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Red-listed boreal forest species of Finland : associations with forest structure, tree species, and decaying wood

    Olli-Pekka Tikkanen;Petri Martikainen;Esko Hyvärinen;Kaisa Junninen

  • Long-term persistence of aspen – a key host for many threatened species – is endangered in old-growth conservation areas in Finland

    Jari Kouki;Kerstin Arnold;Petri Martikainen

  • Assemblages of wood‐inhabiting fungi along the gradients of succession and naturalness in boreal pine‐dominated forests in Fennoscandia

    Kaisa Junninen;Maarit Similä;Jari Kouki;Heikki Kotiranta

  • The phenomenon of biodiversity in conservation biology

    Y. Haila;J. Kouki

  • Conservation of beetles in boreal pine forests: the effects of forest age and naturalness on species assemblages

    M Similä;J Kouki;P Martikainen;A Uotila

  • Landscape context affects the success of habitat restoration: large‐scale colonization patterns of saproxylic and fire‐associated species in boreal forests

    Jari Kouki;Esko Hyvärinen;Harri Lappalainen;Petri Martikainen

  • Short-term effects of controlled burning and green-tree retention on beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages in managed boreal forests

    Esko Hyvärinen;Jari Kouki;Petri Martikainen;Harri Lappalainen

  • Assessing the naturalness of boreal forests in eastern Fennoscandia.

    Anneli Uotila;Jari Kouki;Harri Kontkanen;Päivi Pulkkinen

  • Fire and Green‐Tree Retention in Conservation of Red‐Listed and Rare Deadwood‐Dependent Beetles in Finnish Boreal Forests

    Esko Hyvärinen;Jari Kouki;Petri Martikainen

  • Sampling the rarest: threatened beetles in boreal forest biodiversity inventories.

    Petri Martikainen;Jari Kouki

  • Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia

    Karen A. Harper;Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald;Michael S. Mayerhofer;Shekhar R. Biswas

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson Mid Sweden University
Timo Kuuluvainen
Timo Kuuluvainen University of Helsinki
Lena Gustafsson
Lena Gustafsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Janne S. Kotiaho
Janne S. Kotiaho University of Jyväskylä
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila University of Eastern Finland
Pekka Niemelä
Pekka Niemelä University of Turku
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Joachim Strengbom
Joachim Strengbom Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal

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