Varmola, Martti

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Regional Director, Northern Unit

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Expertise

• effects of young stand treatment on timber production
• young stand development modelling
• plantation forestry

Research Projects

Current

• Knowledge based data services -improving the life cycle and accessibility of environmental data provided for public interest
  

Former

• Biological removal of nutrients from mine waters
  
• Causes and consequences of increasing growth of Finnish forests
  
• Combining of Metla's, ELY's and MTT laboratoriums human resources
  
• Cultivation of exotic and special tree species
  
• Developing methods for afforestation of (former agricultural) fields
  
• Ditch network maintenance -need and technology
  
• Effect of structural complexity on growth and yield of forest stands
  
• Forest regeneration in the special conditions of northern Finland
  
• IUFRO's Special Project on World Forest, Society and Environment
  
• Impact of Climate Fluctuations on Microbial Communities Responsible for Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Arctic Soils
  
• Modelling of stand and tree development at the early stage and the effects of different young stand treatments on timber production
  
• Models for simulation and decision support based on ecological processes in forest regeneration
  
• Northern forest plants in natural product industry
  
• Raw materials of natural product industry in microbial growth control
  
• Resource Technology Conference'98 (RT'98)
  
• Succession of virgin forest stands
  
• Sustainable multiple use of forests in northern Lapland
  
• The Lapland Forest Damage Project
  
• The alternatives of the forest regeneration methods and their ecological and social sustainability in Northern Finland
  
• Thinnings in forest management
  
• World Forests, Society and Environment -II
  

Contacts

Keywords: early development of forest stand, external quality of Scots pine, plantation forestry, young stand management