Mielikäinen, Kari

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Professor

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Expertise

• professor of growth and yield

Research Projects

Current

• Effects of alternative stand management on wood production and profitability
  
• Forest growth in a changing environment
  
• Plant physiology as palaeoenvironmental proxy: Amalgamation of mid and late Holocene tree-ring evidence from carbon isotopes and growth rates (CARATE)
  

Former

• Causes and consequences of increasing growth of Finnish forests
  
• Coordination of research program "Alternatives of silvicultural practices in forest management and their effects on forest production"
  
• Developing services for efficient utilization of forest resources for the welfare of forest owners and society
  
• Forest as the promoter of nature-related business and core of collaboration
  
• Forestry and alternative thinning methods
  
• Management of uneven-aged Norway spruce and Scots pine stands
  
• Official tasks of wood measuring
  
• SNS secretariat
  
• The influence of environmental factors on tree growth
  
• Thinnings in forest management
  
• Variation and trends in tree increment
  

Contacts

Keywords: effects of environment on tree growth, forest management