Effect of forestry drainage on the carbon balance and radiative forcing of peatlands in Finland

Kari Minkkinen

Academic dissertation

To be presented, with the permission of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Helsinki, for public critisism in Auditorium M II, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40 B, Helsinki, on 25 November 1999, at 12 o'clock noon.

Authors address:

Department of Forest Ecology,
P. O. Box 24,
FIN-00014, University of
Helsinki, Finland

Reviewers:

Professor John Jeglum,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Forest Ecology, S-90183,
Umeå, Sweden

Professor Kimmo Tolonen,
Dept. of Biology, University of Joensuu, P.O.
Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland

Opponent:

Dr. Carl Trettin, USDA Forest Service,
Center for Forested Wetlands Research,
2730 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, South Carolina 29414, USA

Publisher of electronic version:

Helsingin yliopiston verkkojulkaisut
Helsinki, 2000
ISBN 951-45-9019-8 (HTML version)