Kitunen, Veikko

Ph.D., Researcher

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Expertise

• organic chemistry

Research Projects

Current

• Impacts of host trees and neighbour microbes on Tricholoma matsutake hyphae growth, and its application
  
• Increased production of bioactive compounds add value of Norway spruce
  
• The ecological constraints of sustaineable use of forest bioenergy and the feasibility of the present sustaineability criteria used in forestry
  
• The effect of forest management and environment on fibre properties and wood chemistry
  
• The effect of soil preparation and fertilisation on forest soil and tree stand
  
• The microbiology of greenhouse gases
  
• Wood and other biomasses as a raw material for ethanol, hemicellulose and platform chemical production
  

Former

• Artificial recharge of groundwater: infiltration techniques, soil processes and water quality
  
• Bioenergy from forests -research program co-ordination
  
• Carbon balance of peatlands and climatic change
  
• Characterisation of Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
  
• Environmental Impacts of Wood Ash and its Heavy Metals
  
• FuBio Joint Research II
  
• Future Biorefinery B
  
• Growth disturbance in spruce forests on burn-beaten area
  
• Nitrogen tolerance of forest ecosystems
  
• Nutrient amounts and nutrient dynamics in drained peatland
  
• Pools and fluxes of carbon on mineral soils and peatlands
  
• Seedling production and nursery hygienie
  
• Silviculture of hardwoods
  
• The effects of climate change on the distribution ranges and the structure of forest vegetation in Finland
  
• Tree species and forest soil fertility
  
• Tree species and forest soil properties
  
• Use of wood in ethanol and chemical production
  

Contacts

Keywords: laboratory methods, organic chemistry