Finér, Leena

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

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Expertise

• silviculture
• environmental impacts of forestry practices
• nutrient pools and fluxes
• root systems

Research Projects

Current

• Effect of Land Use on Diffuse Load
  
• Forest hydrology and environmental responses of trees
  
• Forests and Water- transfer of knowledge and expertise
  
• FunDivEUROPE-Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe
  

Former

• Carbon balance of peatlands and climatic change
  
• Climate change and tree roots: Effects of soil frost and flooding on tree growth
  
• Ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Effect of final cutting on the water, carbon and nutrient stores and fluxes in boreal forest
  
• Effect of forest regeneration on site and environmental factors
  
• Effect of soil temperature on the water transport and carbon and nitrogen allocation in forest trees
  
• Effects of forestry on Water courses
  
• Environmental effects of shorter forest rotation in a landscape perspective
  
• Environmental load caused by forestry practices -coordination of the research program
  
• Fluxes of elements in boreal forest ecosystem after forest managements
  
• Foremms
  
• Foremms II - demonstration
  
• Identification of the needs and costs of the monitoring of nutrient export from foretry areas
  
• Nutrient stores in peatlands in Finland
  
• Organinization and participation of Japanese-Finnish seminar in Japan
  
• Peat nutrient regime and sustainable wood production on peatlands
  
• Peatland use
  
• Prediction and mitigation of nutrient and sediment load from forested catchments: Development of FEMMA-computation tool
  
• The effect of climate change and forest management on the amount and quality of runoff from forested catchments
  
• The effects of the timing of soil frost thawing on growth and physiologyof roots and shoot in trees
  
• Thinning of peatland forests
  
• Tools for Water Protection in Forestry
  
• Tree root and shoot, and soil microbial responses to soil temperature
  

Contacts

Keywords: biomass, nutrient pools and fluxes, peatlands, root systems, silviculture