Luke-UH-MASSiVE

A competitive bioeconomy must be sustainable and acceptable by consumers. To provide raw materials to industry in the current operating environment, forestry has to account also for other ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, recreational benefits, and climate change mitigation. The aim of the MASSiVE project is to utilize tree-level biomass information to guide the diverse use of forests. The project produces new information on the effects of forest structure and composition on forest ecosystem services produced by biodiversity and nature-based recreation. The analyses are based on tree maps produced using remote sensing and ground measurements, forest structure and composition derived from the tree maps, and extensive data describing the occurrence of different species and the recreational use of forests. The multidisciplinary consortium brings together experts from the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and the University of Helsinki.

2026

2029