Director General Hannu Raitio

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Research Activities

Expertise

• air pollution
• forest condition
• tree nutrition
• radioecology
• chemical foliar analysis
• bio-indicators of foliar quality

Publications

• Peer-reviewed and other papers
• Publications, complementary list / full list

Research Projects in Metla (1987-2004)

• Forest vitality
  
• The response of the forest ecosystems into the environmental factors (ICP-Forests/Level II)
  
• West Finland Forestry Cooperation Network
• Analysis of nutrient cycles in ecological and socio-economic systems for policy purpose - AESOPUS
  
• Forests as a source of health and well-being
  
• Integrated Monitoring: stand and soil properties on permanent plots
  
• Leader
  
• Peat nutrient regime and sustainable wood production on peatlands
  
• Radioecology in the forest ecosystem
  
• The Lapland Forest Damage Project
  
• The carbon and nitrogen economy of forest trees
  
• The effect of air pollutants on the function of forest ecosystem
  
• The effect of fertilization on radiocaesium distribution in the forest
  
• The vitality of forests in western Finland
  
• Vitality of forests
  

Keywords: abiotic damage, air pollutants, bio-indicators, environmental changes, forest health, forest soils, growth disturbanses foliar, needle analysis, nutrient relations of trees, radioecology