Pietiläinen, Pekka

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• nitrogen metabolism of forest trees
• fertilisation of peatlands
• afforestation of agricultural fields

Research Projects

Current

• Intensive production of woody biomass
  

Former

• Decision support system for stand management
  
• Developing methods for afforestation of (former agricultural) fields
  
• Ditch network maintenance -need and technology
  
• Ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Effects of ditch network maintenance on the development of peatland stands
  
• Field afforestation in EU-Finland
  
• Maintainance of sustainable nutrient status in peatland stands
  
• Nitrogen dynamics in peat and the effect of nitrogen on tree growth
  
• 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
  

Contacts

Keywords: field afforestation, forest trees, nitrogen metabolism, peatlands, physiology of trees