Nieminen, Tiina

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• nutrient dynamics in forest ecosystem
• forest vegetation
• forest sol
• bioavailability of soil trace elements

Research Projects

Current

• Hydro-biogeochemistry of drained peatlands: impacts of bioenergy harvesting on trace metal transport under different hydrogeological settings (HYPE)
  
• Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems
  
• Nutrient balances on forested mineral soils
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  
• The effect of soil preparation and fertilisation on forest soil and tree stand
  
• The effects of stemwood and wholetree harvesting in drained peatlands on leaching of nutrients and heavy metals to water courses and nutrient sufficiency for sustainable treeproduction
  
• Tree species and forest soil properties
  

Former

• Action D2 Nutrient cycling and critical loads 2009 - 2011
  
• Application of DGT-methods for determination of nutrient and trace element bioavailability in soil
  
• Artificial recharge of groundwater: infiltration techniques, soil processes and water quality
  
• Bioenergy from logging residues - effects on soil and tree stand
  
• Effects of harvesting drained peatland forests on the leaching of mercury and other heavy metals to surface waters
  
• Fertility and management of forest soils
  
• Forest vegetation and litterfall as environmental indicator
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Nutrient dynamics and biomass allocation in different tree species: effects of nitrogen deposition and drought
  
• Nutrient dynamics and management of forested mineral soils
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon in Finnish forests and their economic and social implications - stage 1
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• Recovery of boreal forest ecosystem from long-term heavy-metal pollution
  
• TER coordination
  
• The effect of air pollutants on the function of forest ecosystem
  
• Tree species and forest soil fertility
  

Contacts

Keywords: bioavailability of nutrients and trace elements in soils, forest ecosystems, forest vegetation, nutrient cycle, nutrient dynamics, under-storey vegetation