Salemaa, Maija

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• forest vegetation
• forest biodiversity
• climate change
• bioindicators
• nutrient fluxes

Research Projects

Current

• Boreal forest mosses as indicators of nitrogen deposition
  
• Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems
  

Former

• Action D2 Nutrient cycling and critical loads 2009 - 2011
  
• Action IM1 Selection of core plots for intensive monitoring 2009 - 2011
  
• Carbon and nutrient dynamics in forest soil under environmental change
  
• Changes of forest vegetation and prediction of site productivity
  
• Diversity of forest and mire vegetation
  
• Fertility and management of forest soils
  
• Forest and mire vegetation as indicators of environmental change - pilotstudy
  
• Forest vegetation and litterfall as environmental indicator
  
• Forest vitality
  
• Impact of forestry and environmental change on the diversity of boreal vegetation since 1950
  
• LIGNUM model and its applications
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Nutrient dynamics and management of forested mineral soils
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• Recovery of boreal forest ecosystem from long-term heavy-metal pollution
  
• The Lapland Forest Damage Project
  
• The effect of air pollutants on the function of forest ecosystem
  
• The effects of climate change on the distribution ranges and the structure of forest vegetation in Finland
  
• The vitality of forests in western Finland
  
• Vitality of forests
  

Contacts

Keywords: bioindicators, climate change, forest biodiversity, forest vegetation, nutrient fluxes