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Andis Lazdiņš
Position:
Senior researcher
Grade:
Dr.silv., Mg.biol.
Phone number:
26595586
E-mail:
Activity:
Forest regeneration and establishment
Forest operations and energy
Forest Environment laboratory
Active projects:
Elaboration of guidelines and modelling tool for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction in forests on nutrient-rich organic soils
Economic and environmental assessment of biomass production in buffer zones around drainage systems and territories surrounding the protective belts of natural water streams
Research program on improvement of forest growth conditions, 2016–2021
Development of greenhouse gas emission factors and decision support tools for management of peatlands after peat extraction
Evaluation of impact of land use soil and climate factors on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission for drainage ditches
Sustainable use of soil resources in the changing climate (SUCC)
Support to the LSFRI Silava for international collaboration projects in research and innovation
Finished projects:
Effect of different doses of organic fertilizers and ash on energy crops (Salix sp. and Phalaris arudinacea) cultivated in acid peaty soils
Developing criteria for efficient management of farmlands naturally overgrowing by forest
Innovative solutions for increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impacts of future wood supply (OnTrack)
The Baltic Sea Region Bioenergy Promotion Project
Criteria and method for assessing the volume of energy wood and mechanized tending of the farmlands naturally overgrowing by forest
Calculation of the sink of SEG and CO2 in the ZIZIMM sector for 2009 for meeting the commitments of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
Fulfilment of the 2008 tasks for the National Forest Monitoring Programme
Developing and testing a multifunctional prototype machine for stubbing and mounding on cutovers
Meeting the international commitments of the state in performing the 2009 Forest Monitoring Programme
Centre of Advanced Research on Environmental Services from Nordic Forest Ecosystems (CAR-ES III)
CAR-ES Centre of advanced research on environmental services from Nordic forest ecosystems
OSCAR2 – Operation systems centre of advanced research (2nd phase)
Leaching of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from forest land in the Nordic and Baltic countries
Meeting the international commitments of the state for the project "Further Development and Implementation of an EU-level Forest Monitoring System" (FutMon)
Developing a research program for evaluating the impact of forest management on the balance of hothouse gases
Investigating the causes for large-scale die-back of spruce stands in the forests managed by the AS "Latvijas valsts meži"
Developing a matrix for changes in forest land use for incorporation in the national report on the inventory of hothouse gases following Section 3.3 and 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol
Improvement of accounting system and methodologies for estimation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and CO2 removals from croplands and grasslands
BalBiC – The Development of the Bioenergy and Industrial Charcoal (Biocoal) Production
Evaluation of impact of forest management practices on greenhouse gas emissions and CO2 removals
Developing technological and engineering aspects for the utilization of wood ashes as fertilizer in forest cultivation
Development of harvester prototype for harvesting and biofuel production in short rotation coppice
Alternative harvesting solutions for non-conventional felling types
Sustainable and responsible management and re-use of degraded peatlands in Latvia (REstore)
Research program on mechanization of forest operations and forest bioenergy
Accelerating production of forest bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region (Baltic ForBio)
Improving National forest inventory-based carbon stock change estimates for greenhouse gas inVENTories (INVENT)
Methods and technologies for increasing the value of forest capital
Stump utilization for energy wood and plantation cultivation of energy crops: technologies and job engineering
Method for assessing the yield of energy wood from the tending of forest infrastructure objects
Inventory of forest soils and evaluating biodiversity within the international project "BioSoil"
Research on the productivity and quality of mechanized technologies for restocking cutovers by the container planting stock
Establishing sample plots for evaluating the effect of reproductive material on the growth of common birch and hybrid aspen in farmlands
Analysis of potential forest regeneration methods in the sites stubbed out for energy wood
Accumulation of mineral nutrients and carbon in the above-ground parts and roots of trees in the young stands of natural and artificial origin
Silvicultural and economic criteria and the actions promoting the use of mechanized seeding and planting technologies in forest regeneration
The technologies for cultivating deciduous in forest and non-forest lands to meet the demand for forest raw materials
FUTUREforest – Woodlands for Climate Change
Further Development and Implementation of an EU-level Forest Monitoring System (FUTMON)
Support to international cooperation, recognition and competitiveness of LSFRI Silava
National forest inventory
Assessment of greenhouse gas emission and CO2 sequestration in old forest stands
Commercial thinning as a tool for the increase of the productivity and quality of silver birch plantations
Forest regeneration, establishment, tending and thinning programme
Development and evaluation of biomass models for assessment of carbon stocks in grey alder and common alder forests in Latvia
Interaction of microbial diversity with methane turnover and mercury methylation in organic soils
Elaboration of models for establishment and management of multifunctional plantations of short rotation energy crops and deciduous trees
Methods for establishing and managing birchwood plantations
Developing the methods of plantation cultivation of fast-growing forest crops and evaluating the suitability of their wood for pelletizing
Integrated Nitrogen Management System for the Gulf of Riga (GURINIMAS)
Silvicultural evaluation of mechanized container stock planting technologies
ORCID id
:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7169-2011
Latest publications
Bārdule A., Liepiņš J., Liepiņš K., Stola J., Butlers A., Lazdiņš A. 2021. Variation in Carbon Content among the Major Tree Species in Hemiboreal Forests in Latvia. Forests, 12(9), 1292;
https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091292
Laiviņš M., Priede A., Kaupe D., Lazdiņš A. 2021. Succession of Xeric Calcareous Grassland Toward Thermophilous Oak Forest: The Case of Abava Valley, West Latvia. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences, 75(4), 268-281;
https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2021-0040
Bārdule A., Butlers A., Lazdiņš A., Līcīte I., Zvirbulis U., Putniņš R., Jansons A., Adamovičs A., Razma Ģ. 2021. Evaluation of Soil Organic Layers Thickness and Soil Organic Carbon Stock in Hemiboreal Forests in Latvia. Forests, 12(7), 840;
https://doi.org/10.3390/f12070840
Liepiņš J., Liepiņš K., Lazdiņš A. 2021. Equations for estimating the above- and belowground biomass of grey alder (Alnus incana (L.) Moench.) and common alder (Alnus glutinosa L.) in Latvia. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 36(5), 389-400;
https://doi.org/10.1080/02827581.2021.1937696
Högbom L., Abbas D., Armolaitis K., Baders E., Futter M., Jansons A., Jõgiste K., Lazdins A., Lukminė D., Mustonen M., Øistad K., Poska A., Rautio P., Svensson J., Vodde F., Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė I., Weslien J., Wilhelmsson L., Zute D. 2021. Trilemma of Nordic-Baltic Forestry – How to Implement UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability, 13(10), 5643;
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105643
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