Sutinen, Sirkka

Ph.D., Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• forest health
• abiotic factors

Research Projects

Current

• Climate change and tree roots: Effects of soil frost and flooding on tree growth
  
• Genetic variation in growth rhythm and pest and disease resistance: potential applications in tree breeding and gene conservation work
  
• Machine planting: seedling production and field performance of seedlings
  

Former

• Bio oils and mineral oils in timber harvesting operations, and their impacts on forest environment and the health of forestry workers
  
• Concentrations and effects of volatile organic halocompounds in forest ecosystem
  
• Diagnosticity of cell injuries: experimental fumigation studies
  
• Ecological Monitoring of Karelian Forests
  
• Effect of soil temperature on the water transport and carbon and nitrogen allocation in forest trees
  
• Effects of long-term ozone fumigations on vegetation Exposure pattern, nutritional status, genetic variation and life strategy in relation to critical levels.
  
• Genetic basis of adapted traits and economically important characteristics in forest trees
  
• Growth disturbance in spruce forests on burn-beaten area
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Quality chain of forest regeneration from seed production to early tending
  
• The Lapland Forest Damage Project
  
• The effect of air pollutants on the function of forest ecosystem
  
• The effects of the timing of soil frost thawing on growth and physiologyof roots and shoot in trees
  
• The vitality of forests in western Finland
  

Contacts

Keywords: abiotic factors, air pollution, microscopy, nutrients