Markku LARJAVAARA

Principal investigator

Past research projects:

   2013-2018 Carbon in human used tropical landscapes

   2012-2013 Branching of Betula (descriptive)

   2007-2011 Forest carbon field protocols in the tropics

   2001-2005 Forest fires and climate in Finland

 

Future foci:

  • Disturbance ecology theory

  • Forest management to mitigate climate change

  • Global optimization of carbon storage and fibre production

  • Kin selection in plants

  • Modelling tree strategies by using interest rates

  • Tree size and wood density

  • Wind the tree biomechanics

  • Wood characteristics during life of trees

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Teaching:

  • Forests of the World, undergraduate, spring 2020

  • Forestry and Global Change, graduate, spring 2020 

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