Hartman, Markus

M.Sc., Researcher

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Expertise

• nutrient status in peatland stands

Research Projects

Current

• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  
• The effect of soil preparation and fertilisation on forest soil and tree stand
  

Former

• Bioenergy from forests -research program co-ordination
  
• Carbon balance of peatlands and climatic change
  
• Developing and supporting experimental activities
  
• Development of Assessment and Monitoring Techniques at Integrated Monitoring Sites in Europe. Sub-project: Enhancement of forest growth and nutrient uptake estimates
  
• Diversity of forest and mire vegetation
  
• Ecological and silvicultural impacts of stump removal and collecting of logging residue
  
• Ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Impact of climate change on C and N transformations in organic soils
  
• Impact of forestry and environmental change on the diversity of boreal vegetation since 1950
  
• Integrated Monitoring: stand and soil properties on permanent plots
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Maintainance of sustainable nutrient status in peatland stands
  
• Modelling forest carbon cycles
  
• Nitrogen dynamics in peat and the effect of nitrogen on tree growth
  
• Nutrient amounts and nutrient dynamics in drained peatland
  
• Nutrient balances on forested mineral soils
  
• Nutrient dynamics and management of forested mineral soils
  
• Nutrient status and effects of fertilisation in tree stands growing on drained mires
  
• Nutrient stores in peatlands in Finland
  
• Peat nutrient regime and sustainable wood production on peatlands
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• The ecological base and predictability of natural seedling establishment
  
• The effects of stemwood and wholetree harvesting in drained peatlands on leaching of nutrients and heavy metals to water courses and nutrient sufficiency for sustainable treeproduction
  
• The management of the permanent field experiments on drained peatlands
  
• The natural regeneration of the forest
  

Contacts

Keywords: integrated monitoring of environment, nutrient balance, nutrient resources, peatland ecology, peatlands