Forest management is the most prominent threat for a number of species in the north.
The proposed research project has three goals. Here the emphasis is on testing the theoretical models of landscape ecology in practice. It is important to know how populations are structured because population structure has substantial implications for management decisions, Dispersal abilities and operational scale, which vary from a taxa to another, are important factors affecting population structure in fragmented landscapes. Therefore, our studies encompass a wide spectrum of taxa differing in their dispersal abilities. In these studies we aim at revealing the requirements of different kinds of organisms for forest landscape structure.