Lehtonen, Aleksi

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

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Expertise

• Greenhouse gases estimation and reporting
• biomass estimation and modeling carbon flows in forest ecosystems

Research Projects

Current

• Climate change induced drought effects on forest growth and vulnerability (Climforisk)
  
• Greenhouse gases estimation and reporting
  
• Improving soil carbon estimation of GHG inventory
  
• Yasso07 implementation for Norwegian GHG inventory. Cooperation Agreement for research partners - Research Council of Norway - Project no. 210464/O10
  

Former

• Carbon balance of forests under changing climate
  
• Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on metabolism, growth and allocation of growth in forest trees at tree and forest stand level
  
• Forest Carbon Sinks and Economic Costs of Kyoto Protocol
  
• Interlinkages between forest biodiversity and carbon sequestration
  
• Modelling forest carbon cycles
  
• Monitoring changes in the carbon stocks of forest soils
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• Testing the validity of soil carbon model Yasso07 - evaluation seminar
  
• Testing validity of Yasso07 soil carbon model with empirical data
  

Contacts

Keywords: European forest resources, Greenhouse gas inventory, biomass estimation, carbon flows, climate change