Lumme, Ilari

Ph.D., Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• nutrient dynamics of trees and soil
• forest ecosystem and environmental changes

Research Projects

Current

• Bioenergy production on cut-over peat soils and on drained, low-productive peatland forests; cultivation of peatland mosses (Sphagnum, Polytrichum), and Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) - peatsoil moss joint cultivation
  

Former

• Artificial recharge of groundwater: infiltration techniques, soil processes and water quality
  
• Bioenergy from forests -research program co-ordination
  
• Bioenergy production on drained, low-productive peatlands - cultivation of peatland mosses
  
• Diameter growth dynamics during growing season and annual growth variation
  
• Ecological Monitoring of Karelian Forests
  
• Effects of soil moisture level and nitrogen availability on nutrient status and growth of Norway spruce stands (Picea abies Karst.).
  
• Nitrogen tolerance of forest ecosystems
  
• Nutrient dynamics and biomass allocation in different tree species: effects of nitrogen deposition and drought
  

Contacts

Keywords: environmental changes, forest ecosystem, forest soils, forest trees, nutrient dynamics