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Timo Kuuluvainen

Timo Kuuluvainen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
11476
World Ranking
1999
National Ranking
25

Overview

Timo Kuuluvainen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their primary research is situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specific focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics addressed in Kuuluvainen's work encompass Forest Management and Policy, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest ecology and management, Fire effects on ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Notable publications by Kuuluvainen include:

  • "Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry," 2021, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Other recent papers related to Kuuluvainen's research environment and topics, authored by co-researchers, are:

  • "Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems," 2020, Ecography
  • "Representative boreal forest habitats in northern Europe, and a revised model for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation," 2021, AMBIO
  • "Forest disturbance by an ecosystem engineer: beaver in boreal forest landscapes," 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • "Closer-to-Nature Forest Management," 2022, From science to policy

Kuuluvainen often collaborates with several frequent co-authors who contribute to similar research areas. These include Tuomas Aakala, Ekaterina Shorohova, Lee E. Frelich, Niko Kulha, and Jurij Diaci.

Their publications commonly appear in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Metsätieteen aikakauskirja
  • From science to policy

Best Publications

  • Boreal forest health and global change

    S. Gauthier;P. Bernier;T. Kuuluvainen;A. Z. Shvidenko

  • Natural variability of forests as a reference for restoring and managing biological diversity in boreal Fennoscandia

    Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Forest Management and Biodiversity Conservation Based on Natural Ecosystem Dynamics in Northern Europe: The Complexity Challenge

    Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Even-Aged and Uneven-Aged Forest Management in Boreal Fennoscandia: A Review

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Olli Tahvonen;Tuomas Aakala

  • Boreal forest disturbance regimes, successional dynamics and landscape structures - a European perspective

    Per Angelstam;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Structure and asymmetry of tree crowns in relation to local competition in a natural mature Scots pine forest

    Seppo Rouvinen;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Natural stand structures, disturbance regimes and successional dynamics in the Eurasian boreal forests: a review with special reference to Russian studies.

    Ekaterina Shorohova;Timo Kuuluvainen;Ahto Kangur;Kalev Jõgiste

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

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

  • Natural forest dynamics in boreal Fennoscandia: a review and classification

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Tuomas Aakala

  • A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

    Dominik Kulakowski;Rupert Seidl;Jan Holeksa;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Statistical opportunities for comparing stand structural heterogeneity in managed and primeval forests: An example from boreal spruce forest in southern Finland

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Antti Penttinen;Kari Leinonen;Markku Nygren

  • Coarse woody debris in old Pinus sylvestris dominated forests along a geographic and human impact gradient in boreal Fennoscandia

    S Rouvinen;Timo Tapio Kuuluvainen;L Karjalainen

  • Young and old forest in the boreal: critical stages of ecosystem dynamics and management under global change

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Structure of a pristine Picea abies forest in northeastern Europe

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Kimmo Syrjänen;Risto Kalliola

  • Disturbance dynamics in boreal forests : defining the ecological basis of restoration and management of biodiversity

    Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Rehabilitating boreal forest structure and species composition in Finland through logging, dead wood creation and fire: The EVO experiment

    I Vanha-Majamaa;Saara Lilja;Saara Lilja;Riitta Ryömä;Riitta Ryömä;J. S Kotiaho

  • Seedling establishment in relation to microhabitat variation in a windthrow gap in a boreal Pinus sylvestris forest

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Pauli Juntunen

  • Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems

    Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl;Juha Honkaniemi;Tuomas Aakala;Alexey Aleinikov

  • Tree diameter distributions in natural and managed old Pinus sylvestris-dominated forests

    S. Rouvinen;T. Kuuluvainen

  • Factors related to seedling growth in a boreal Scots pine stand: a spatial analysis of a vegetation-soil system

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Timo J. Hokkanen;Erkki Järvinen;Timo Pukkala

  • Fire history in relation to site type and vegetation in Vienansalo wilderness in eastern Fennoscandia, Russia

    Tuomo H Wallenius;Timo Kuuluvainen;Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
Timo Pukkala
Timo Pukkala University of Eastern Finland
Yasuhiro Kubota
Yasuhiro Kubota University of the Ryukyus
Jari Kouki
Jari Kouki University of Eastern Finland
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson
Bengt Gunnar Jonsson Mid Sweden University
Harri Vasander
Harri Vasander University of Helsinki
Pekka Punttila
Pekka Punttila Finnish Environment Institute
Per Angelstam
Per Angelstam Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Philip J. Burton
Philip J. Burton University of Northern British Columbia
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki

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