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Pasi Rautio is affiliated with the Finnish Forest Research Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions to several specialized subfields.

Their work spans areas including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, insect science, plant science, and atmospheric science. These subfields relate closely to broader topics such as forest ecology and biodiversity studies, forest ecology and management, and seedling growth and survival studies.

Specific research interests also cover forest management and policy, lichen and fungal ecology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Pasi Rautio has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Journal of Land Use Science
  • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
  • Plants
  • Ecosystems

Recent papers by Rautio include:

  • Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • Fungal community composition predicts forest carbon storage at a continental scale, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Physiological and climate controls on foliar mercury uptake by European tree species, 2022, Biogeosciences
  • Contrasting Resource Dynamics in Mast Years for European Beech and Oak-A Continental Scale Analysis, 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Defoliation Change of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Depends on Previous Year Drought, 2022, Plants

Their frequent collaborators include Ville Hallikainen, Lars Vesterdal, Peter Waldner, Volkmar Timmermann, and Päivi Merilä.

Best Publications

  • Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Sietse van der Linde;Sietse van der Linde;Laura M. Suz;C. David L. Orme;Filipa Cox

  • Tree mineral nutrition is deteriorating in Europe.

    Mathieu Jonard;Alfred Fürst;Arne Verstraeten;Anne Thimonier

  • Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe

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  • Nitrogen deposition is the most important environmental driver of growth of pure, even-aged and managed European forests

    Sophia Etzold;Marco Ferretti;Gert Jan Reinds;Svein Solberg

  • Associational effects of plant defences in relation to within- and between-patch food choice by a mammalian herbivore: neighbour contrast susceptibility and defence

    Ulrika Alm Bergvall;Pasi Rautio;Kari Kesti;Juha Tuomi

  • Phosphorus nutrition of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is decreasing in Europe

    Ulrike Talkner;Karl Josef Meiwes;Nenad Potočić;Ivan Seletković

  • Use of sheep grazing in the restoration of semi-natural meadows in northern Finland

    Kalle Hellström;Ari-Pekka Huhta;Pasi Rautio;Juha Tuomi

  • Restorative mowing on an abandoned semi-natural meadow: short-term and predicted long-term effects

    Ari‐Pekka Huhta;Pasi Rautio;Juha Tuomi;Kari Laine

  • Grazing tolerance of Gentianella amarella and other monocarpic herbs: why is tolerance highest at low damage levels?

    Ari-Pekka Huhta;Kalle Hellström;Pasi Rautio;Juha Tuomi

  • Stress indications in copper- and nickel-exposed Scots pine seedlings

    E Kukkola;P Rautio;S Huttunen

  • Tolerance of Gentianella campestris in relation to damage intensity: an interplay between apical dominance and herbivory

    Ari-Pekka Huhta;Tommy Lennartsson;Juha Tuomi;Pasi Rautio

  • SEVERE DEFOLIATION OF SCOTS PINE REDUCES REPRODUCTIVE INVESTMENT BY ECTOMYCORRHIZAL SYMBIONTS

    Karita Kuikka;Esa Härmä;Annamari Markkola;Pasi Rautio

  • Forest management regulates temporal change in the cover of boreal plant species

    Tiina Tonteri;Maija Salemaa;Pasi Rautio;Ville Hallikainen

  • Patterns of mast fruiting of common beech, sessile and common oak, Norway spruce and Scots pine in Central and Northern Europe

    Anita Nussbaumer;Peter Waldner;Sophia Etzold;Arthur Gessler

  • The condition of forests in Europe. 2012 executive report

    R. Fischer;P. Waldner;J. Carnicer;M. Coll

  • Total vs. internal element concentrations in Scots pine needles along a sulphur and metal pollution gradient.

    Pasi Rautio;Satu Huttunen

  • Above- and below-ground N stocks in coniferous boreal forests in Finland: Implications for sustainability of more intensive biomass utilization

    Päivi Merilä;Kaisa Mustajärvi;Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari;Sari Hilli

  • A test of the compensatory continuum: fertilization increases and below-ground competition decreases the grazing tolerance of tall wormseed mustard (Erysimum strictum)

    Ari-Pekka Huhta;Kalle Hellström;Pasi Rautio;Juha Tuomi

  • Defoliation increases carbon limitation in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis of Betula pubescens

    Annamari Markkola;Karita Kuikka;Pasi Rautio;Esa Härmä

  • Impact of weather cues and resource dynamics on mast occurrence in the main forest tree species in Europe

    Anita Nussbaumer;Peter Waldner;Vladislav Apuhtin;Fatih Aytar

  • Defoliation causes parallel temporal responses in a host tree and its fungal symbionts

    Karita Saravesi;Annamari Markkola;Pasi Rautio;Marja Roitto

  • Scots pine needle injuries at subarctic industrial sites

    E. Kukkola;Satu Huttunen;Jaana Bäck;Pasi Rautio

  • Element Concentrations in Scots Pine Needles on Radial Transects Across a Subarctic Area

    Pasi Rautio;Satu Huttunen;Jukka Lamppu

  • Seed introduction and gap creation facilitate restoration of meadow species richness

    Kalle Hellström;Ari-Pekka Huhta;Pasi Rautio;Juha Tuomi

  • Manual on methods and criteria for harmonized sampling, assessment, monitoring and analysis of the effects of air pollution on forests : Part XII Sampling and analysis of needles and leaves

    Pasi Rautio;Alfred Fürst;Klaus Stefan;Hannu Raitio

Frequent Co-Authors

Juha Tuomi
Juha Tuomi University of Oulu
Aldo Marchetto
Aldo Marchetto National Research Council (CNR)
Lars Vesterdal
Lars Vesterdal University of Copenhagen
Martin I. Bidartondo
Martin I. Bidartondo Imperial College London
Marco Ferretti
Marco Ferretti University of Camerino
Olof Leimar
Olof Leimar Stockholm University
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Marcus Schaub
Marcus Schaub Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Kari Laine
Kari Laine University of Oulu
Tapani Repo
Tapani Repo Natural Resources Institute Finland

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