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Susanne Suvanto is a Research Fellow at the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), part of the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research focuses on the intersection of forest management, climate change, and ecosystem dynamics, with particular emphasis on European temperate forests.
Her research interests span temperate forest ecosystems, climate change impacts, forest management practices, tree mortality patterns, harvest rate analysis, and carbon mitigation potential. Dr. Suvanto investigates how forest management interacts with climate change to affect forest health and carbon cycling, with a geographic focus on European forests. Her work combines large-scale data analysis with ecological modeling to understand complex forest dynamics across spatial and temporal scales.
Analysis of her recent publications (2022-2025) reveals a consistent focus on understanding how climate change interacts with forest management practices, particularly in European contexts. Her research employs multi-dimensional approaches to examine water stress strategies, carbon mitigation potential, and the relationship between harvest rates and forest mortality. The work demonstrates increasing sophistication in modeling forest disturbance patterns and harvesting regimes across continental scales.
Dr. Suvanto served as Co-Investigator on the EU-funded 'Forest management-mortality interactions - quantification of management effects on tree mortality and implications for carbon cycling' (ForMMI) project from November 2020 to October 2022, working alongside Principal Investigator T. Pugh. This collaborative project examined how forest management practices affect tree mortality and carbon cycling in temperate forests.
