PhD thesis defence by Antti-Jussi Kieloaho 3rd Feb 2017

Antti-Jussi has his thesis ready for defense on 3rd February 2017 at the Department of Physics, see: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/173284

Pay special attention to his last paper that binds soil, soil fungi and atmospheric processes together in a great way, well done Antti-Jussi!

http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/bg-2016-363/

 

Publications 2017

New year has started with with good news, already in January we have got three papers accepted! Have a look:

Heinonsalo, J., Buée, M., and Vaario, L.-M. (2017) Root-endophytic fungi cause morphological and functional differences in Scots pine roots in contrast to ectomycorrhizal fungi. Accepted in Botany. doi: 10.1139/cjb-2016-0161

Kieloaho, A.-J.,Pihlatie, M., Kulmala, M., Riekkola, M.-L., Parshintsev, J., Vesala, T. and Heinonsalo, J. (2017) Soil concentrations and soil-atmosphere exchange of alkylamines in a boreal Scots pine forest. Accepted to Biogeosciences doi:10.5194/bg-2016-363

Mäki, M., Heinonsalo, J., Hellén, H. and Bäck, J. (2017) Contribution of understorey vegetation and soil processes to boreal forest isoprenoid exchange. Accepted to Biogeosciences doi:10.5194/bg-2016-255

 

Publications 2016

Year 2016 was very successful for our projects and nine nice papers got published:

Timonen, S., Sinkko, H., Sun, H., Sietiö, O.-M., Rinta-Kanto, J.M., Kiheri, H. and Heinonsalo, J. (2016). Ericoid Roots and Mycospheres Govern Plant-Specific Bacterial Communities in Boreal Forest Humus. Microb Ecol (2016). doi:10.1007/s00248-016-0922-6

Aaltonen, H., Lindén, A., Heinonsalo, J., Biasi, C. and Pumpanen, J. (2016) Effects of prolonged drought stress on Scots pine carbon allocation. Accepted in Tree Physiology

Adamczyk, B., Ahvenainen, A., Sietiö, O-M, Kanerva, S., Kieloaho, A.-J., Smolander, A., Kitunen, V., Saranpää, P., Laakso, T., Strakova, P. and Heinonsalo, J. (2016) The contribution of ericoid plants to soil nitrogen chemistry and organic matter decomposition in boreal forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.09.016.

Santalahti, M., Sun, H., Jumpponen, A., Pennanen, T. and Heinonsalo, J. (2016) Seasonal and vertical dynamics of fungal communities in boreal Scots pine forest soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw170

Sun, H., Santalahti, M., Pumpanen, J., Köster, K., Berninger, F., Raffaello, T., Asiegbu, F.O. and Heinonsalo, J. (2016) Bacterial community structure and function shift across a northern boreal forest fire chronosequence. Scientific Reports, 6:32411, DOI: 10.1038/srep32411

Karhu, K., Hilasvuori, E., Fritze, H., Biasi, C., Nykänen, H., Liski, J., Vanhala, P., Heinonsalo, J. and Pumpanen, J. (2016) Priming effect increases with depth in a boreal forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 99: 104–107.

Sun, H., Terhonen, E., Kovalchuk, A., Tuovila, H., Chen, H., Oghenekaro, A., Heinonsalo, J., Kohler, A., Kasanen, R., Vasander, H. and Asiegbu F. (2016). Dominant tree species and soil type affect fungal community structure in a boreal peatland forest. Applied and Environmental Microbiology doi:10.1128/AEM.03858-15.

Kieloaho, A-J., Pihlatie, M., Dominguez Carrasco, M., Kanerva, S., Parshintsev, J., Riekkola, M.-L., Pumpanen, J. and Heinonsalo J. (2016). Stimulation of soil organic nitrogen pool: the effect of plant and soil organic matter degrading enzymes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 96: 97-106.

Köster, K., Berninger, F. A., Heinonsalo, E. J., Linden, A. S., Köster, E., Ilvesniemi, H. and Pumpanen, J. S. (2016). The long-term impact of low-intensity surface fires on litter decomposition and enzyme activities in boreal coniferous forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire doi:10.1071/WF14217.

New personnel in 2015-2016

We have got new people in the group! Dr. Bartosz Adamczyk joined the group and takes the charge of soil chemical analysis in NITROFUNGI project. See more on Bartek’s expertise in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bartosz_Adamczyk2

PhD student Mari Mäki started to work on VOC-fluxes in our field site in the summer 2015. See more https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/fi/persons/mari-maki%283d90fe5c-5f65-4c5b-a07f-abe5d1e7985d%29.html

 

New publications in 2015

We have published new research in 2015:

Jussi Heinonsalo, Hui Sun, Minna Santalahti, Kirsi Bäcklund, Pertti Hari,
Jukka Pumpanen (2015) Evidences on the Ability of Mycorrhizal Genus Piloderma to Use Organic Nitrogen and Deliver It to Scots Pine. PLOS ONE

Hui Sun, Minna Santalahti, Jukka Pumpanen, Kajar Köster, Frank Berninger, Tommaso Raffaellob Ari Jumpponen, Fred O. Asiegbu, Jussi Heinonsalo (2015) Fungal Community Shifts in Structure and Function across a Boreal Forest Fire Chronosequence. Applied and Environmental Microbiology

M. Linkosalmi, J. Pumpanen, C. Biasi, J. Heinonsalo, R. Laiho, A. Lindén, V. Palonen, T. Laurila, A. Lohila (2015) Studying the impact of living roots on the decomposition of soil organic matter in two different forestry-drained peatlands. Plant and Soil.

Jussi Heinonsalo, Eija Juurola, Aki Linden, Jukka Pumpanen (2015) Ectomycorrhizal fungi affect Scots pine photosynthesis throughnitrogen and water economy, not only through increased carbondemand.  Environmental and Experimental Botany

Kajar Köster, Frank Berninger, Jussi Heinonsalo, Aki Lindén, Egle Köster, Hannu Ilvesniemi and Jukka Pumpanen (2015) The long-term impact of low-intensity surface fires on litter decomposition and enzyme activities in boreal coniferous forests.  International Journal of Wildland Fire.

 

 

New People

Outi-Maaria Sietiö MSc. joined the team and the main task are the enzymatic analyses

PhD Kajar Köster also works now in NITROFUNGI project and focus on N balances in arctic soils.

 

Welcome!

Newest publication

A collaborative work, done together with scientists from Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA) was recently accepted for publication:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00230/abstract