Mäkipää, Raisa

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), M.Sc., Researcher

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Expertise

• plant ecology
• forest soil science
• climate change and carbon sink of forests

Research Projects

Current

• Adaptation of boreal forest management to the changing climate: modeling dynamics of forest stand and soil developement
  
• Boreal forest mosses as indicators of nitrogen deposition
  
• Economically optimal adaptation of forest management in the changing climate(ECONADA)
  
• Future forest regeneration materials
  
• Resource utilization of wood-inhabiting fungi - an isotopic approach
  

Former

• Changes of forest vegetation and prediction of site productivity
  
• Climate Change - Forests in terrestrial adaptation and mitigation in Europe
  
• Coordination of HMS research program
  
• Forest Carbon Sinks and Economic Costs of Kyoto Protocol
  
• Forest and mire vegetation as indicators of environmental change - pilotstudy
  
• Forest carbon balance
  
• Forest management in changing climate with multiple targets of timber production, carbon sequestration and maintenance of biodiversity
  
• Impact of forestry and environmental change on the diversity of boreal vegetation since 1950
  
• Interlinkages between forest biodiversity and carbon sequestration
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Modelling forest carbon cycles
  
• Monitoring changes in the carbon stocks of forest soils
  
• Responses of boreal forests on climate change and forest fires scenarios: modelling forest stand and soil development in changing conditions
  
• Succession and diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi during decomposition of the dead wood
  
• Testing validity of Yasso07 soil carbon model with empirical data
  

Contacts

Keywords: carbon sink, climate change, forest soil science, forests, plant ecology