The aim of this action is to model critical change thresholds for local ecosystems and communities due to combined effects of growing tourism industry and impacts of climate change. Increasing...

This action will focus on the Pallas-Yllästunturi national park and the adjacent forest region, located in northern Finland north of the Arctic Circle. Climate change in the Arctic areas can r...

This action will provide Earth observation-based extended GMES services for FinLTSER environmental network points-of-interest, as a basis for the sector-specific assessment work in actions 5-1...

  Climate change scenarios indicate that warming of the lower troposphere increases northwards. Changes in precipitation, daily minimum and maximum temperature, solar radiation, snow...

This action will focus on the synthesis and dissemination of the results of the entire project. The action will produce the main general dissemination material of the project (www-pages, broch...

This action will focus on the coastal ecosystems in the Western Gulf of Finland. The region comprises a number of natural resources with conservation, recreation, or economic values, which are...

Today, over 50% of the global human population lives in cities. The urban population is estimated to grow rapidly still in the future. Increased human population and the consequent urbanizatio...

This action aims to demonstrate how climate change may affect agricultural production and environment, including impacts on productivity of farming, choice of crops and production methods, imp...

Terrestrial and lake ecosystems in the boreal zone are sensitive in respect to changes in climatic conditions. In warmer climate the productivity of both ecosystems may increase because of lon...

The action attempts to clarify how climate change will influence the forest production and production conditions and how that will influence the productivity of alternative silvicultural schem...

The first major project of the FinLTSER-network started 1.1.2009 with funding from the LIFE+ instrument of the EU. The VACCIA-project (Vulnerability assessment of ecosystem services for climat...

  This action will focus on the technical and financial management of the project. The components of the management structure are: 1) Management Board formed by the project leader (...

Facebook We publish interesting environmental news and events on Syke’s Facebook . In addition to that Syke provides contents from different topics and projects to many Facebook pages: ...

VACCIA has been selected as the Best LIFE Environment project 2012 ! VACCIA  is continuing to have a wide-reaching impact:  Finnish 'Best of' 2012 environment project sets clim...

Finnish Environment Insitute (Syke) employs approximately 700 skilled and committed professionals. Our job is to protect the environment and to apply cross-disciplinary research and competence t...

The goal of the environmental research conducted by the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) is to guarantee that our environment remains safe and favourable for people to live in, while ...

Are you a natural scientist with extensive networks and good language skills? Or perhaps you hold a university degree in engineering and have experience in project work? Are you looking for a meaning...

Shortcut: http://syke.fi/projects/nitros Background Research objectives and methods Investigations at the field site Conclusions from the field study Project organ...

Pollution prevention controls include the environmental permits required by law for certain activities. Different kinds of permits are granted by various environmental authorities, including Finland'...

Shortcut: http://syke.fi/projects/midas Background Studies on laboratory scale and in sand columns (1998-2001) Full scale studies (2002-2010) Key conclusions and applica...