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HoliSoils Presentations offer insights from leading experts on forest soil challenges and solutions. Explore slides from HoliSoils events, summarising the latest research and policy recommendations on sustainable forest soil management, climate change mitigation, and soil biodiversity.
Final Policy Event – ‘Forest soils for a climate-smart future’. 10 October 2025, Brussels
Access the presentations from the HoliSoils Final Policy Event and discover how healthy forest soils can drive sustainable forest management and EU climate goals.
Learn from leading experts on soil monitoring, modelling and management, and explore how HoliSoils results support the implementation of the European Green Deal and the EU Soil Monitoring Law.
Find more information and the agenda of the event here.
Relevance of forest soils to EU climate policy
Raisa Mäkipää, Project Coordinator, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Forest soils’ vulnerability to drought in the EU
Jorge Curiel, Research Professor, BC3 – Basque Center for Climate Change
Ability of soil models to quantify the impact of forest management on soils
Bertrand Guenet, Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris (CNRS)
Effectiveness of climate-smart forest management strategies in Europe
Sara Filipek, Researcher, Wageningen Environmental Research (WEnR)
Synergies and trade-offs of climate-smart forest management practices for Europe
Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
HoliSoils Autumn Webinars. 17 September – 5 December 2025
Explore the presentations from the HoliSoils Autumn Webinar Series, which brought together experts to discuss new approaches to soil monitoring, biodiversity, peatlands, and microbial processes. The eight sessions highlighted how improved understanding of soil functions supports sustainable forest management, climate change mitigation, and resilient ecosystems across Europe.
Can we ‘simply’ integrate microbial diversity into soil carbon models?
17 September 2025
Elisa Bruni, Researcher, Geology Lab – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Modelling of organic matter decomposition
From empirical rate constants to process-based models.
17 September 2025
Stefano Manzoni, Professor in Ecohydrology, University of Stockholm
When and why microbial-explicit models can be unstable.
17 September 2025
Erik Schwarz, PhD Student, University of Stockholm
How biochemistry may support microbiology? New tools and perspectives.
23 September 2025
Bartosz Adamczyk, Principal Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Monitoring of mineral forest soils.
8 October 2025
Vera Makowski & Nicole Wellbrock, Researcher & Senior Researcher, Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems
Monitoring of peatland forest soils.
15 October 2025
Aleksi Lehtonen, Research Professor and HoliSoils coordinator, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Moss vegetation impacts
ditch methane emissions
from boreal forestry drained
peatlands.
20 October 2025
Tuula Larmola, Principal Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Predicting moss coverage of peatland forest ditches in Finland.
20 October 2025
Leena Sternberg, Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
The importance of monitoring forest soil biodiversity.
22 October 2025
Tijana Martinović, Researcher , the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
Forest soils and management planning.
18 November 2025
Stephan Mantel, Head of the World Soil Museum, World Soil Information (ISRIC)
Challenges of mapping forest soils for Europe.
18 November 2025
Laura Poggio, Senior GeoSpatial Modeller, World Soil Information (ISRIC)
Reduced microbial respiration sensitivity to soil moisture following long-term N fertilization may enhance soil carbon retention in a boreal Scots pine forest.
5 December 2025
Boris Ťupek, Research scientist,Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Conference – 12th INTECOL Wetlands Conference. 29 June – 4 July 2025, Tartu
Discover the presentations shared by HoliSoils researchers at the 12th INTECOL Wetlands Conference and the 20th Annual Meeting of SWS Europe, and gain fresh insights into cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and policy developments shaping the future of wetlands and ecological restoration.
Soil disturbances impact GHG emissions, organic carbon pool, microbial biomass and community in boreal drained peatland forest
Qian Li, Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Short-term effects of harvesting methods on soil N2O fluxes and their spatio-temporal variation in a drained boreal peatland forest
Eduardo Martínez-García, Researc Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Effects of alternative harvesting on soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes in boreal drained forested peatland
Boris Ťupek, Research scientist,Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Measuring
GHG emissions from rewetted forested peatlands
using automatic double chamber systems
Cornelius Oertel, Scientist,Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems (TI-WO)
Conference – Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 2025. 15 – 19 June 2025, Helsinki
Access the presentations from the 5th Conference on the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms (ESM 2025), produced by HoliSoils researchers, and explore the latest advances in soil microbial ecology and ecosystem research.
Ecological interactions in climate change vulnerability of soil organic matter in temperate forests
Lorenzo Menichetti, Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Nitrogen fertilization and soil C in boreal forest
Sylwia Adamczyk, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Policy Event – ‘Forest Soil Challenges in Europe’. 19 March 2025, Brussels
Access the presentations of the Forest Soil Challenges in Europe policy event and learn about the keys to improving the health and sustainability of Europe’s forest soils.
Download the event agenda here.
Forest soil challenges in Europe (Opening)
Johanna Buchert, CEO, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Forest (soil) challenges in Europe
Hans Verkerk, Chief Scientist, European Forest Institute (EFI)
LULUCF regulation and quantification of soil GHG budgets in national inventories
Nicole Wellbrock, Head of soil protection and forest health, Thuenen-Institute of Forest Ecosystems
Soil monitoring law and quantifying soil biodiversity and functions with state-of-art methods
Petr Baldrian, Principal Scientist, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IMIC)
Fire Management challenges for soil health
Pere Casals, Researcher, Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)
Management of organic soils in Europe as a measure to mitigate climate change
Aleksi Lehtonen, Research Professor and HoliSoils coordinator, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
