Maria Väisänen
PhD
Postdoc
Ecology
Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Technology
Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Technology
I am a terrestrial ecologist with a specific interest in herbivore-plant-soil interactions and their impacts on biogeochemical processes as well as on plant and soil faunal/microbial communities. I am interested in how climate change and local environmental conditions shape and control these interactions. As study systems, I use arctic-alpine and/or permafrost-affected tundra ecosystems as well as boreal forests and peatlands. As methods I use ecosystem trace gas flux measurements, soil and plant chemistry analysis and measurements of soil microbial activities, such as respiration and extracellular enzyme activities.
Research interests
- climate change
- grazing
- ecosystem carbon balance
- boreal and tundra ecosystems
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Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit
Pentti Kaiteran street 1
Linnanmaa
FI-90014 Oulu
Finland
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P. O. Box 8000
90014 University of Oulu
Finland