Research
Since its inception, the Kuopio Natural History Museum has carried out diverse zoological and botanical research projects. Most of the research in progress will last for many years and is carried out in cooperation with universities and other research institutions. The research projects enhance the Museum's collections.
Research Projects
Zoology
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- Changes of the nesting avifauna
- The development of the bird lake Keskimmäinen, Kuopio
- Hooper (Cygnus cygnus)
- Waterbird populations and communities in monitoring the environment
- The effects of restoring biodiversity procedures in the forest in Vuorilampi, Kuopio
- The taxonomy and distribution of mayflies in Finland
- Threatened mayflies in eastern and northern Finland
- Biological and landscape diversity: an ecological and environmental esthetic perspective
- The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) in the northern Savo region
Botany
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- Threatened plants in Kuopio
- The effect of restoring procedures on flora and vegetation in the forest in Pölkkypuronsuo, Kuopio
- Monitoring the frequency of Cypripedium calceolus and Epipactis atrorubens in the nature conservation area of Huosiaisniemi, Juankoski
- The present flora in Ääninen, Karelia, based on information from the late 1800s to the war years, 1941–1944
- The wood-rotting fungi in Kuopio park trees
- The polypores of Puijo
- The effects of restoring biodiversity procedures in the forest in Vuorilampi, Kuopio
- The taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of aphyllophoroid fungi
- The effects of forest management on wood-rotting fungi
- The structure and dynamics of wood-rotting communities in storm disaster areas in northeastern Finland
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