Jalkanen, Risto

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Ph.D., Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• forest damage

Research Projects

Current

• Forest growth in a changing environment
  
• Natural regeneration of forests
  

Former

• Aetiology and epidemiology of forest diseases
  
• European climate of the last millennium (Millennium)
  
• Forest damage diagnostic service
  
• Forest regeneration in the special conditions of northern Finland
  
• Forest response of environmental stress ant timberlines: sensitivity of northern, alpine and menditerranean forest limits to climate
  
• Monitoring Infection by Heterobasidion and Cronartium in Spruce and Pine Stand by Airborne Image Spectrometry (AISA)
  
• Needle proxies as environmental indicators
  
• Needle trace method and crown thinning (defoliation) in pines
  
• Shoot and foliage diseases
  
• The alternatives of the forest regeneration methods and their ecological and social sustainability in Northern Finland
  
• The use of the time series based on the Needle Trace Method, NTM, in environmental, forest hhealth, ecosystem and climate change studies, and in visualization of tree development
  

Contacts

Keywords: abiotic damage, forest damage, fungal damage