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This thesis examines the local and regional scale determinants of biodiversity patterns using existing species and environmental data. The research focuses on agricultural environments that have experienced rapid declines ...

Recently, governing the future has become a topical issue for many actors and organisations. The future is uncertain, it can contain threats or new possibilities that should be managed, and therefore, future becomes an ...

In coastal waters, physico-chemical and biological properties and constituents vary at different time scales. In the study area of this thesis, within the Archipelago Sea in the northern Baltic Sea, seasonal ...

A small carbonatite dyke swarm has been identified at Naantali, southwest Finland. Several swarms of shoshonitic lamprophyres are also known along the Archean-Proterozoic boundary in eastern Finland and northwest Russia. ...

Different types of laterally extensive sand- and gravel-dominated deposits, up to several tens of metres thick, were investigated in the Suupohja area of western Finland. The studied sediments were deposited in glacial, ...

The study of bedrock fracture networks is essential for applications such as modelling fluid flow, predicting radionuclide and geothermal heat transfer as well as overcoming bedrock engineering challenges since the fractures ...

This thesis is a research about the recent complex spatial changes in Namibia and Tanzania and local communities’ capacity to cope with, adapt to and transform the unpredictability engaged to these processes. I scrutinise ...

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges faced by this generation. Despite being the single most important environmental challenge facing the planet and despite over two decades of international climate negotiations, ...

Interlobate eskers are the largest esker landforms in Finland. They formed in complex depositional conditions during the deglaciation of the Scandinavian ice sheet ca. 10 000 years ago. Their deposits can be 100 m thick, ...