My research interests include the responses of invertebrate and plant communities to urbanisation. To this end I concentrate on the effects of various urban features, such as habitat edges, trampling intensity, and greenspace fragmentation in general, on communities in remnant urban forests, meadow and verge habitats, vegetated/green roofs and mires. Additionally, during the past years I have become interested in using urban soils as in situ laboratories to investigate decomposition and soil quality, and soil biodiversity. I’m also keeping up with modern statistical methods to analyse, invariably, messy ecological data. I'm a member of the Ecosystems and Environment Research Group in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland