Forest ecosystem carbon and its economic implications
Program and extended abstracts
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome: Research Director Pasi Puttonen
9:10 - 9:40 Forest
ecosystem carbon and its economic implications - summary of results
R. Sievänen, Metla
Session: Pools of carbon and fluxes of GHG's in forests
9:40 - 10:10 Carbon
stores in belowground and understorey biomass in forested mineral soils-
relationships to site, stand and climate factors H-S. Helmisaari,
Metla (extended abstract)
10:10 - 10:40 Carbon fluxes in deposition, soil water and litterfall
in forested mineral soils - relationships to site, stand and climate
factors A-J. Lindroos, Metla (extended
abstract)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11.30 Regional
variation of carbon in upland forest soils P. Tamminen, Metla (extended
abstract)
11:30 - 11:50 Effects of forest management on GHG fluxes on peatlands
K. Minkkinen, University of Helsinki (extended
abstract)
11:50 - 12:10 Dynamics of litterfall and decomposition in peatland forests
R. Laiho, University of Helsinki & T. Penttilä, Metla (extended
abstract)
12:10 - 12:30 Soil
GHG emissions and C pools in afforested agricultural fields J. Hytönen,
Metla (extended
abstract)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Parallel session I: Assessment of carbon dynamics
13:30 - 13:50 Reliability
of biomass estimation at regional scale A. Lehtonen, Metla (extended
abstract)
13:50 - 14:10 Controlling
factors of the uncertainty of forest carbon sinks M. Peltoniemi,
Metla (extended
abstract)
14:10 - 14.30 Estimating
biomass for boreal forests on mineral soils using ASTER satellite data
P. Muukkonen, Metla (extended
abstract)
Parallel Session II: Socio-economics of carbon sequestration
13:30 - 13:50 Economic
analysis of carbon sequestration at stand level J. Pohjola, Metla
(extended abstract)
13:50 - 14.10 Policy
instruments for carbon sequestration and their impacts at forest level
J. Uusivuori & J. Laturi, Metla (extended
abstract)
14:10 - 14:30 Forest
products in the climate policy: substitution and carbon storage
K. Pingoud, Metla
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
Session: Global and European views
15:00 - 15:45 National
greenhouse gas systems versus the European terrestrial C balance: science
& policy
Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Alterra, Netherlands
15:45 - 16:30 A
Global Perspective on the Economics of Sequestering Carbon in Forests
Brent Sohngen, Ohio State University, USA
16:30 - 18:00 Poster session
Posters and extended abstracts of posters
Soil greenhouse gas emissions
from afforested cutaway peatlands. Aro L, Potila H, Laine J, Mäkiranta
P& Minkkinen K (posterabstract)
Carbon
dynamics on a mire with drainage nutrition gradients. Hartman M.,
Karsisto M. & Kaunisto S. (posterabstract)
Development
of soil carbon stocks following clear-cutting and regeneration in Finland:
a chronosequence study.
Ilvesniemi H, Starr M, Tamminen P (posterabstract)
Plant litter
and its relevance in forest soil C cycling. Hilli S, Stark S, Salemaa
M, Derome J (posterabstract)
Carbon stocks
and carbon fractions in the organic layer (F + H) of forest soil.
Hilli S, Stark S, Salemaa M, Derome J (posterabstract)
The methodology used
in year 2005 for greenhouse gas inventory of finnish forest soils.
T Kareinen, R Sievänen, H Ilvesniemi, T Penttilä, A Lehtonen,
M Peltoniemi (posterabstract)
Moss litter decomposition
in peatlands: Rates of moss loss. Laiho R, Karsisto M, Repo S,Kitunen
V, Savitski M, Laine J, Penttilä T (posterabstract)
R Laiho, T Penttilä
Root system
carbon pools in northern peatland forests: Effects of stand density
manipulation. Laiho R, Penttilä T
(posterabstract)
Development of
Methanogen Communities During a Primary Succession of Mire Ecosystems.
P. O. Merilä, P.E. Galand, H. Fritze, E.-S. Tuittila, K. Kukko-oja,
Laine, J1., K.Yrjälä (posterabstract)
Trace metal accumulation
in Finnish peat bogs with known pollution history. T M. Nieminen
, L Ukonmaanaho , N Rausch , W Shotyk (posterabstract)
Above- and belowground
biomass of boreal understorey vegetation. Salemaa, M., Derome, J.,
Hamberg, L., Helmisaari, H-S.& Hilli, S. (posterabstract)
Biomass estimates
of boreal dwarf shrubs in relation to their percentage cover and the
number of samples. Salemaa, M., Hamberg, L., Hilli, S.& Derome,
J. (posterabstract)
Evaluation of a linked
stand growth and decomposition model with stand level measurements.
R. Sievänen, H. Ilvesniemi, Mike Starr (posterabstract)
Effects of
management on stand level carbon stocks: a simulation study. Sievänen
R., Pohjola J., Siipilehto J., Hynynen J., Liski J. (posterabstract)
Tree biomass
and soil C densities and stocks for the Hietajärvi intergrated
monitoring catchment in eastern Finland.
Starr M & Hartman M (posterabstract)
Recent
organic matter accumulation in ombrotrophic peat bogs exposed to heavy
metal load.
Ukonmaanaho L, Nieminen T, Rausch N & Shotyk W. (posterabstract)
Branch litter quality and decomposition in drained peatlands predicted
by IR spectroscopy. P Vávrová, T Penttilä, M Karsisto
and R Laiho (posterabstract)
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