Päätalo, Marja-Leena

D.Sc. (For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• Growth and yield
• snow damage to forest trees

Research Projects

Current

• Knowledge based data services -improving the life cycle and accessibility of environmental data provided for public interest
  
• Restoration and rehabilitation as tools to enhance the biodiversity and multiple-use of peatlands
  

Former

• Effect of structural complexity on growth and yield of forest stands
  
• Effects of dense mixed seedling stands on the nutrient status of the groundwater
  
• Improved methods for precommercial thinning
  
• Modelling establishment and early development of forest stands
  
• Natural forests and mires in the green belt of Koillismaa and Kainuu (GreenBelt)
  
• Regeneration of birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) stands in drained peatlands of Ostrobothnia
  
• Restoration of mires and forests in northern Finland
  
• The profitability of private forestry in Ostra Botnia I
  
• The profitability of private forestry in Ostra Botnia II
  

Contacts

Keywords: growth, snow damages, yield