Kalle Karoles

• Estonian University of Life Sciences

Canopy litterfall represents an essential aboveground flux in every forest ecosystem, affecting soil carbon and nutrient dynamics as well as soil fertility. However, despite the important role of the canopy litter flux in ecosysteḿs functioning and carbon sequestration, litterfall dynamics is still poorly studied in hemiboreal forests. The main aim...

Estimation of the carbon (C) storages and fluxes in different forest ecosystems is essential for understanding their C sequestration ability. The net ecosystem production (NEP) and the net primary production (NPP) in five downy birch (Betula pubescens) stands, aged between 12 and 78 years, growing on fertile well-drained Histosols, were studied. Dr...

Estimation of the carbon (C) storages and fluxes in different forest ecosystems is essential for understanding their C sequestration ability. Grey alder (Alnus incana (L.) Moench) is a fast growing tree species with a great potential for short-rotation forestry in the Nordic and Baltic countries and its stands are considered C accumulating ecosyste...

We analysed the economics of hybrid aspen and silver birch which are both fast-growing hardwoods recommended for the establishment of plantations on abandoned agricultural lands in Northern Europe. If managed during one rotation period the internal rate of return (IRR) of hybrid aspen plantations was 4.4-7.3% and the IRR of silver birch plantations...