Smolander, Heikki

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

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Expertise

• nursery research
• ecophysiology

Research Projects

Current

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• Business-oriented development of management of young spruce stands
  
• Future forests and forest management - management, knowledge and technology transfer
  
• Machine planting: seedling production and field performance of seedlings
  
• R&D Unit for Direct Seeding of Scots pine
  
• Seedlings for mechanized planting
  

Former

• Biology and technology of nursery production
  
• Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on carbon and nitrogen assimilation and light interception in woody plants
  
• Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on metabolism, growth and allocation of growth in forest trees at tree and forest stand level
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Nursery production and planting chain
  
• Quality chain of forest regeneration from seed production to early tending
  
• Quality control in forest regeneration in private forests
  
• Quality control methods for silvicultural operations
  
• Responses of forest trees to changing environment
  
• Seedling production and nursery hygienie
  
• Small mammal laboratory facility
  
• Summer planting of the container seedlings
  
• Summer planting of the containeraized seedlings
  
• Technology, organising and logistics of plantation forestry
  
• The carbon and nitrogen economy of forest trees
  

Contacts

Keywords: eco-physiology, nurseries