An unsuccessful – and unfortunate – drainage in the margins of Siikaneva.
Climate change and peatlands
Decomposition and C dynamics in peat soils under transient hydrology: What happens inside the Black box? Project leader Raija Laiho. Funding from the Academy of Finland, 2004-2008.
Successional changes in litter quality and microbial community as constraints for the paradoxal C dynamics in peat soils under transient hydrology. Project leader Raija Laiho. Funding from the Academy of Finland, 2004-2009. Joint description
Monitoring system for C balance of drained peatland forests – prediction and monitoring under changing conditions. Project leader Kari Minkkinen. Funding from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, 2006-2008.
Impacts of climatic changes on fen ecosystem functioning. Project leader Tytti Sarjala (Finnish Forest Research Institute)
Mire succession and ecosystem functioning
Mire diversity and function– successional change during primary paludification. Project leader Eeva-Stiina Tuittila. Funding from the Academy of Finland, 2006-2011. The project aims to improve understanding of the complex interactions of diversity with productivity and stability of ecosystem functioning, here defined as of net exchange of carbon between ecosystem and atmosphere.
Methane cycling
Sphagnum mosses in the methane cycling of northern mires. Project leader Tuula Larmola.
Tropical peatlands
In their pristine state, humid tropical peatlands in SE Asia are peat swamp forests with a generally thick peat layer. Nowadays the fastest change of land-use globally is occurring in these ecosystems. This causes severe effects on C stocks and sequestration, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and socioeconomy of local people. Jyrki Jauhiainen and Harri Vasander, in collaboration with several international organizations, have conducted studies in the C cycle, land-use change, restoration, and the environmental effects of acid sulphate soils over the latest 10 years in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Description
A dam constructed for experimental restoration of hydrology in the former Mega-Rice project area, Kalimantan. The lifetime of the dam was two years.
(Last updated 9/2/2010 by RL)