Teaching

Research themes

Forestry 

• Long-term net ecosystem exchange of CO₂/H₂O: Insights from Eddy Covariance Data (Soontaga) 

• Forest C and N Cycling: from soil & trees to the atmosphere (Agali I & Agali II, Palo) 

• Annual soil CO₂, CH₄ & N₂O fluxes and dynamics, linkage with environmental parameters 

• Tree stems and leaf fluxes: importance in total ecosystem fluxes 

• Long-term study (chamber-based) of forest soil CH₄ exchange (Soontaga) 

• Drained peatland forest emissions: quantifying C losses and sinks (Tiksoja, Vara, Järvselja) 

Agriculture 

• Greenhouse gas fluxes from croplands and grasslands on mineral and peat soils (LIFE OrgBalt) 

• Sustainable Farming Practices: mitigating GHG fluxes from agriculture (collaboration projects with EMÜ & METK) 

Wetlands 

• NEE studies of bog CO₂ and H₂O fluxes in the Kauru Ecosystem Station using the Eddy Covariance technique 

• C fluxes from natural and restored peatlands and the effect of restoration on biodiversity in Valgeraba & Kuresoo (Soomaa) 

• CH₄ flux dynamics and linkage with water chemistry: constructed wetlands in Rampillon (France) used to treat agricultural runoff  

Tropical peatlands 

• Tropical peatland degradation: impact of land-use change (collaboration project PeatlandN2O (Prof Mander)) 

• Hydrological changes and soil and tree stems GHG flux dynamics in tropical peatlands in Malaysia and Peru (collaboration project PeatlandN2O (Prof Mander)) 

Modelling 

• Modelling soil GHG fluxes: heterotrophic respiration – CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O fluxes 

• Estimating soil annual GHG emissions using process-based modelling

Videos

• Short video sequences on ecophysiological and biogeochemical research methods and tools. See here.
• LIFE OrgBalt documentary: implemented climate change mitigation measures