Häkkinen, Risto

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), M.Soc.Sc. (Statistics), Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• statistical methods
• phenology
• annual rhythm of trees

Research Projects

Current

• Genetic variation in growth rhythm and pest and disease resistance: potential applications in tree breeding and gene conservation work
  
• Phenology and crop forecasts of forest plants in changing climate
  

Former

• Adaptation of the sexual reproduction of trees to climatic change
  
• Climatic adaptation and geographical variation of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth)
  
• Genetic basis of adapted traits and economically important characteristics in forest trees
  
• Genetic basis of forest tree breeding
  
• Timing of phenological events in changing climate - research on trees and their seeds, yields of wild berries and mushrooms
  

Contacts

Keywords: annual rhythm of trees, phenology, statistics