Sievänen, Risto

D.Sc. (Tech.), Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• process-based growth models
• carbon pools in forests

Research Projects

Current

• A tool to describe the 3D structure of trees for different applications
  
• Biology and control of Heterobasidion spp.
  
• Climate change induced drought effects on forest growth and vulnerability (Climforisk)
  
• Greenhouse gases estimation and reporting
  

Former

• Climate policies and the forest sector
  
• Coordination of HMS research program
  
• Decision support system for stand management
  
• Developing and supporting experimental activities
  
• Functioning of forest ecosystems and use of forest resources in changing climate
  
• LIGNUM model and its applications
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Modelling forest carbon cycles
  
• Modelling the structure and functioning of trees
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon in Finnish forests and their economic and social implications - stage 1
  
• Prediction of stand development
  
• Prediction of stand development
  
• Sustainability of Biomass utilisation in Changing Operational Environment, SUBICHOE
  
• Wood production potential, forest management and harvesting in changing environment
  

Contacts

Keywords: carbon pools in forests, dynamic models, growth, growth models