Penttilä, Timo

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• silviculture and yield of peatland forests
• carbon and nutrient dynamics of peatlands
• research forests
• management of field experiments

Research Projects

Current

• Coniferous forest soil microbial activity and community structure
  
• Fine root production and decomposition in organic soils: Methodology and quantification
  
• Greenhouse gas dynamics and the carbon balance of soil and vegetation in the ICOS research sites
  
• Greenhouse gases estimation and reporting
  
• The microbiology of greenhouse gases
  

Former

• Bioenergy production on drained, low-productive peatlands - cultivation of peatland mosses
  
• Coordination of Research Programme on Production Forestry in Drained Peatlands
  
• Coordination of the Research programme of the ecologically and economically sustainable forestry on peatlands
  
• Forest regeneration and afforestation on peatlands
  
• Growth and yield of peatland stands
  
• Growth, yield, and stand dynamics on drained peatlands
  
• Impact of climate change on C and N transformations in organic soils
  
• Impacts of cuttings on stand and site nutrition, tree growth, and stand dynamics on drained peatlands
  
• Natural forests: structure, dynamics and biodiversity as compared with managed forests
  
• Operational regimes for wood production in peatland forest
  
• Peat nutrient regime and sustainable wood production on peatlands
  
• Permanent growth and yield sample plots - assesments and data management
  
• 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
  
• Silvicultural regimes for drained peatland forests.
  

Contacts

Keywords: carbon dynamics, growth and yiel, nutrient dynamics, peatland forests, peatlands, silviculture