Saarsalmi, Anna

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• ash fertilisation
• vitality fertilisation

Research Projects

Current

• Ash and nitrogen fertilization as a compensatory measure in the connection of slash/whole-tree harvest
  
• Intensive production of woody biomass
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  
• The effect of soil preparation and fertilisation on forest soil and tree stand
  

Former

• Bioenergy from logging residues - effects on soil and tree stand
  
• Breeding and seed production populations
  
• Decidious trees as energy wood: growing, harvesting and quality
  
• Fertility and management of forest soils
  
• Forest vitality fertilization
  
• Growth disturbance in spruce forests on burn-beaten area
  
• Imbalanced Forest Nutrition - Vitality Measures
  
• Nutrient balances on forested mineral soils
  
• Nutrient dynamics and management of forested mineral soils
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon in Finnish forests and their economic and social implications - stage 1
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• Short rotation forestry
  
• Wood for energy -a contribution to the development of sustainable forest management
  

Contacts

Keywords: ash fertilisation, vitality fertilisation