Fritze, Hannu

Ph.D., Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• soil microbiology
• prescribed burning
• ash fertilization
• acidic deposition
• heavy metals
• methane production and oxidation

Research Projects

Current

• Coniferous forest soil microbial activity and community structure
  
• Soil organic carbon decomposition and climate change: a novel approach distinguishing intrinsic properties of carbon compounds from environmental constraints on decomposition (DECORATE)
  
• The microbiology of greenhouse gases
  

Former

• Bioenergy from forests -research program co-ordination
  
• Environmental Impacts of Wood Ash and its Heavy Metals
  
• Forest management and biodiversity
  
• Impact of climate change on C and N transformations in organic soils
  
• Maintenance of nutrient status on mineral soils
  
• Mire diversity and function - successional change during primary paludification
  
• Participatory planning in state and private owned forests
  
• Recovery of boreal forest ecosystem from long-term heavy-metal pollution
  
• The effect of air pollutants on the function of forest ecosystem
  
• The effects of stemwood and wholetree harvesting in drained peatlands on leaching of nutrients and heavy metals to water courses and nutrient sufficiency for sustainable treeproduction
  

Contacts

Keywords: acid fall, ash fertilisation, heavy metals, methane production and oxidation, prescribed burning, soil microbiology