Timonen, Mauri

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

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Expertise

• growth research
• dendrochronological research

Research Projects

Current

• Forest Research Capacity Strengthening in Mozambique 2012-2014 (FORECAS)
  
• Forest growth in a changing environment
  

Former

• Analysis of Dendrochronological varioability and associated natural climates in Eurasia during the last 10.000 years
  
• Causes and consequences of increasing growth of Finnish forests
  
• Criteria for sustainable use and consolidation of land uses in Pallas-Ylläs national park - pilot study
  
• Developing and supporting experimental activities
  
• Ecology and management of timberline areas
  
• Fire and its use in boreal forest ecosystems
  
• Growth and profitability losses in Scots pine stands resulted from insect defoliation and its consideration in forest taxation
  
• Lustia - laboratory project of Metla's tree-ring research
  
• Plant physiology as palaeoenvironmental proxy: Amalgamation of mid and late Holocene tree-ring evidence from carbon isotopes and growth rates (CARATE)
  
• Stand increment in some forest areas in Finland
  
• Succession of virgin forest stands
  
• The alternatives of the forest regeneration methods and their ecological and social sustainability in Northern Finland
  
• The influence of environmental factors on tree growth
  
• Variation and trends in tree increment
  

Contacts

Keywords: climate change, dendrochronology, growth