The aims of the thesis are to analyse how the innovation is included in the Estonian forest policy documents, to describe and analyse the main policy driven innovations in Estonian forestry governance, management of ...

The thesis is designed to establish and assess different approaches of competition measurement, incorporated with various competitor selection methods, focusing on silver birch in Estonia. The effect of competition and ...

The aim of the doctoral thesis was to investigate the survival ability of pathogenic fungi Heterobasidion spp. and Diplodia sapinea and the saprotrophic fungus Phlebiopsis gigantea and viruses, after passing through the ...

Doktoritöö käsitleb metsaökosüsteemide taastamist Eestis, hõlmates nii kaevandamisega rikutud alade taasmetsastamist kui ka loodusmetsade struktuurikomponentide tekitamist madala loodusväärtusega aladele ning aladele, kus ...

Generally, invasive pathogens settle first exotic host species and later the native ones. Invasive conifer pathogens Lecanosticta acicola and Diplodia sapinea were first documented in northern Europe on exotic hosts and ...

The doctoral thesis focuses on the influence of long-term local weather variation on Scots pine growth on a temporal and spatial scale. Dendrochronological methods were used to determine the most influential climatic factors ...

The implementation of land reform has been an important task in Estonia since the regaining of independence in 1991. Land reform is implemented according to the aim stated in the Land Reform Act and is carried out by the ...

During the recent decades, a novel land-use system called “short-rotation plantation forestry” has steadily expanded from southern regions to northern Europe. This tendency is mainly driven by the increasing demand for ...

The objective of the Doctoral thesis was to study and evaluate the quality of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) planting stock grown with different technologies, determine their biometric ...

This thesis focuses on vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens of forested dunes of various heights in south-west Estonia, with the overall aim to determine the environmental factors that shape ground vegetation communities. ...