Päivi Merilä

Research Manager, Principal Scientist
  • Phone number +358295324061
  • Email address paivi.merila@luke.fi
  • Address Paavo Havaksen tie 3 90570 OULU

Soil Carbon Dynamics During Stand Rotation in Boreal Forests

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2025

Fruit quality of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) in boreal forests: Effects of forest stand, understorey, and soil characteristics

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2025

Host species and temperature drive beech and Scots pine phyllosphere microbiota across European forests

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2024

Policy Brief: Build public trust: Six factors for increasing wind power acceptance

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2024

Inferring ecological selection from multidimensional community trait distributions along environmental gradients

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2024

Substantial contribution of tree canopy nitrifiers to nitrogen fluxes in European forests

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2024

Carbon Stocks and Transfers in Coniferous Boreal Forests Along a Latitudinal Gradient

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2024

Mixed effects of a national protected area network on terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity

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2023

Broadleaved trees enhance biodiversity of the understorey vegetation in boreal forests

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2023

Effects of tree pollen on throughfall element fluxes in European forests

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2023

Three key messages concerning the proposal for EU Soil Monitoring Law

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2023

Response of ground macrolichens to site factors, co‐existing plants and forestry in boreal forests

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2022

Blue or black bilberry: when the color matters...

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2022

Soil carbon stock changes over 21 years in intensively monitored boreal forest stands in Finland

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2022

Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches

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2022

Microbial carbon use efficiency and priming of soil organic matter mineralization by glucose additions in boreal forest soils with different C:N ratios

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2022

Physiological and climate controls on foliar mercury uptake by European tree species

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2022

Integrating Decomposers, Methane-Cycling Microbes and Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes Along a Peatland Successional Gradient in a Land Uplift Region

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2022

Distinct patterns of below- and aboveground growth phenology and litter carbon inputs along a boreal site type gradient

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2021

Abundance and diversity of edible wild plants in managed boreal forests

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2021

Assessment report on vulnerability and the long-term ecosystem impacts of climate change and air pollution at the remote pristine Natura 2000 site in South Finland using long-term ecosystem data. D3. Deliverable Report on the long-term impacts of climate change and air pollutants at the Valkea-Kotinen site (Vanajavesi) (30.6.2020). A2. Milestone Database for Valkea-Kotinen site (Vanajavesi) for the assessment of long-term impacts of global change ready (30.6.2020)

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2020

Assessment report on vulnerability and the long-term ecosystem impacts of climate change and air pollution at the remote pristine Natura 2000 site in Eastern Finland using long-term ecosystem data. D3. Deliverable Report on the long-term impacts of climate change and air pollutants at the Iso Hietajärvi site (Koitajoki) (31.12.2020). A2. Milestone Database for Iso Hietajärvi site (Koitajoki) for the assessment of long-term impacts of global change ready (30.6.2020)

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2020

Temporal biodiversity change following disturbance varies along an environmental gradient

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2020

Site types revisited: Comparison of traditional Russian and Finnish classification systems for European boreal forests

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2020