Smolander, Aino

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

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Research Projects

Current

• Boreal forest mosses as indicators of nitrogen deposition
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  
• Tree species and forest soil properties
  

Former

• Artificial recharge of groundwater: infiltration techniques, soil processes and water quality
  
• Bioenergy from forests -research program co-ordination
  
• Bioenergy from logging residues - effects on soil and tree stand
  
• Effects of soil moisture level and nitrogen availability on nutrient status and growth of Norway spruce stands (Picea abies Karst.).
  
• Fertility and management of forest soils
  
• Maintenance of nutrient status on mineral soils
  
• Nitrogen tolerance of forest ecosystems
  
• Nursery production and planting chain
  
• Nutrient dynamics and biomass allocation in different tree species: effects of nitrogen deposition and drought
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• The effect of air pollutants on the function of forest ecosystem
  
• Tree root and shoot, and soil microbial responses to soil temperature
  
• Tree species and forest soil fertility
  

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