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Boreal Forest and Climate Change

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Pertti Hari

    1. Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Liisa Kulmala

    1. Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  • Comprehensive summary of vegetation – climate change interplay
  • New results in ecophysiology, tree growth and in climate change – Boreal forest interactions
  • Use of modern instrumentation
  • Multi-, cross- and interdisciplinary text

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 34)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Introduction

    • Pertti Hari
    Pages 1-11

  3. Methodologies

    Pages 13-56

  4. Environmental Factors

    Pages 57-74

  5. Transport

    • Timo Vesala, Üllar Rannik, Pertti Hari
    Pages 75-88

  6. Structure

    Pages 89-142

  7. Processes

    Pages 143-280

  8. From Processes and Transport to Trees, Ecosystems and Atmosphere

    Pages 281-423

  9. Connections Between Processes, Transport and Structure

    • Eero Nikinmaa, Pertti Hari, Annikki Mäkelä
    Pages 425-432

  10. MicroForest

    Pages 433-478

  11. Interactions Between Boreal Forests and Climate Change

    Pages 479-528

  12. Concluding Remarks

    • Pertti Hari, Eero Nikinmaa, Markku Kulmala
    Pages 529-532

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 533-582
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About this book

The Forest Primary Production Research Group was born in the Department of S- viculture, University of Helsinki in the early 1970s. Intensive ?eld measurements of photosynthesis and growth of forest vegetation and use of dynamic models in the interpretation of the results were characteristic of the research in the group. Electric instrumentation was based on analogue techniques and the analysis of the obtained measurements was based on self-written programs. Joint research projects with the Research Group of Environmental Physics at the Department of Physics, lead by Taisto Raunemaa (1939–2006) started in the late 1970s. The two research groups shared the same quantitative methodology, which made the co-operation fruitful. Since 1980 until the collapse of the Soviet Union the Academy of Finland and the Soviet Academy of Sciences had a co-operation program which included our team. The research groups in Tartu, Estonia, lead by Juhan Ross (1925–2002) and in Petrozawodsk, lead by Leo Kaipiainen (1932–2004) were involved on the Soviet side. We had annual ?eld measuring campaigns in Finland and in Soviet Union and research seminars. The main emphasis was on developing forest growth models. The research of Chernobyl fallout started a new era in the co-operation between forest ecologists and physicists in Helsinki. The importance of material ?uxes was realized and introduced explicitly in the theoretical thinking and measurements.

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"Boreal forest and climate change is a much-needed addition to the literature on the subject. … the book provides detailed, nicely illustrated insights into both conceptual and mechanistic process models describing aspects of these theories and associated processes, their interactions, and scale dependence. … the book is most appropriate as a high-level scientific treatise for those with a keen interest in the biophysical aspects of measuring and modeling ecosystem-atmosphere exchange. … this book is a veritable treasure trove of information on the subject." (Scott Goetz, Ecology, Vol. 80 (7), 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Pertti Hari, Liisa Kulmala

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