Alm, Jukka

Ph.D., Docent, Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• greenhouse gas exchange and carbon balance in wetlands
• simulation of landscape carbon gas exchange
• ecosystems ecology

Research Projects

Current

• Climate change and tree roots: Effects of soil frost and flooding on tree growth
  
• Greenhouse gases estimation and reporting
  
• Hydrological nutrient losses and methods of water quality protection on peatlands drained for forestry purposes
  

Former

• Foremms
  
• Foremms II - demonstration
  
• Greenhouse gas (CH4 ja N2O) release in wetland buffer ecosystems after nutrient release from forestry practices
  
• Modelling and extrapolation of peatland greenhouse gas fluxes
  
• Nutrient stores in peatlands in Finland
  

Contacts

Keywords: carbon balance, ecosystems ecology, gas balance, greenhouse gas, peatlands