Hamberg, Leena

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• urban forests
• edge effect
• recreation
• understorey vegetation
• biological sprout control

Research Projects

Current

• Geographical information systems and multi-objective decision support methods for multiple use forestry
  
• New possibilities in controlling Heterobasidion root rot
  

Former

• "Sproutstop" - breeding of Chondrostereum purpureum for sprout control
  
• Action IM1 Selection of core plots for intensive monitoring 2009 - 2011
  
• Aetiology and epidemiology of forest diseases
  
• Fire and its use in boreal forest ecosystems
  
• Impact of forestry and environmental change on the diversity of boreal vegetation since 1950
  
• Landscape management in forest regeneration
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Methods, models and goals of multi-objective forest planning
  
• Nutrient dynamics and biomass allocation in different tree species: effects of nitrogen deposition and drought
  
• Participatory planning in state and private owned forests
  
• Protection of forest biodiversity in multi-objective forest planning
  

Contacts

Keywords: edge effect, recreation, understorey vegetation, urban forests