Moilanen, Mikko

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• nutrient status of peatlands
• impacts of ash on forests
• regeneration of peatland forests

Research Projects

Current

• Natural regeneration of forests
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  

Former

• Artificial regeneration
  
• Coordination of the Research programme of the ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Environmental Impacts of Wood Ash and its Heavy Metals
  
• Forest regeneration and afforestation on peatlands
  
• Growth and yield of peatland stands
  
• Maintainance of sustainable nutrient status in peatland stands
  
• Models for simulation and decision support based on ecological processes in forest regeneration
  
• Nutrient amounts and nutrient dynamics in drained peatland
  
• Nutrient status and effects of fertilisation in tree stands growing on drained mires
  
• Peat nutrient regime and sustainable wood production on peatlands
  
• Peatland fertilization experiments
  
• Regeneration of birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) stands in drained peatlands of Ostrobothnia
  
• Regeneration of peatland forests
  
• 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
  

Contacts

Keywords: drainage, fertilization, nutrient deficiencies, nutrient status, peat ash, peatland, regeneration of stands, wood ash