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Markku Larjavaara CV updated on 5 September 2015
Name and contact information
Markku Larjavaara
[email protected]
+358503458441
Birth and nationality
1975, Helsinki, Finland, Finnish
Marital status
Married, children born in 2006, 2007 and 2011
Research appointments
 University Researcher (Finnish: yliopistotutkija), VITRI, University of Helsinki (Oct 2013 - )
 Researcher (Finnish: vanhempi tutkija), Metla (May 2012 – July 2013)
 Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (Nov 2007 – Sep 2011)
 Doctoral Student, Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki (March 2001 – Sep 2005)
Non-research appointments (development aid)
 Technical Advisor, project in Indonesia; based at University of Helsinki (Oct 2011 – Apr 2012)
 Associate Scientist, Bioversity International, Malaysia (Oct 2005 – Sep 2007)
 Junior Expert, Finnagro, Burkina Faso (Nov 1999 – August 2000)
Degrees
 Title of Docent (global forest ecology), University of Helsinki, 2012
 Doctor of Science (forest ecology), University of Helsinki, 2005
 Master of Science (agriculture and forestry), University of Helsinki, 1999
 Second Lieutenant (survey officer), compulsory military service, Finnish Defense Forces, 1995
Languages
 Finnish, English, French, Spanish, Swedish (order of perfection)
 No ability to speak but courses completed on Russian, Malay and Dioula
Reviewing for titles of the University of Helsinki
 Docent: 2013 (application withdrawn during review)
 MSc theses: Aura Piha 2010; Nadira Fróis 2010
Research funding – top achievement
Academy of Finland Research Fellow (Finnish: akatemiatutkija) application entitled “World’s forests
and climate change – Impacts and mitigation” overall rating by an international peer review panel in
2013:
6/6, outstanding
Editor for international journals
 Functional Ecology, Associate Editor (2014 –)
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Silva Fennica, Visiting Scientific Editor (45(5), 2011)
Peer-reviewer for international journals
 African Journal of Agricultural Research
 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
 American Journal of Botany
 Annals of Botany
 Biogeosciences
 Biology Letters
 Biotropica
 Bois & forêts des tropiques
 Boreal Environment Research
 Canadian Journal of Forest Research
 Ecological Monographs
 Forest Ecology and Management
 Functional Ecology
 Global Change Biology
 Global Ecology and Biogeography
 Int. Journal of Tropical Biology and Cons.
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International Journal of Wildland Fire
Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal of Ecology
Journal of Experimental Botany
Journal of Mountain Science
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
New Forests
Peerage of Science
Plant Biology
Plos One
Silva Fennica
Scientific Reports
The Open Journal of Forest Science
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Trees - Structure and Function
Scientific publications (Google Scholar citations to key publications)
Articles in international journals with peer-review
1. Larjavaara, M. 2015. Trees and shrubs differ biomechanically. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
30: 499-500.
2. Larjavaara, M. 2014. World’s tallest trees grow in thermally similar climates. New Phytologist
202: 344-349. Press release of the publisher:
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-110053.html
3. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2013. Measuring tree heights: A quantitative comparison
of two common field methods in a moist tropical forest. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4: 793801.
4. Ngo, K.M., Turner, B.L., Muller-Landau, H.C., Davies, S.J., Larjavaara, M., Faizu, N., Hassan,
N. & Lum, S. 2013. Carbon stocks in primary and secondary tropical forests in Singapore. Forest
Ecology and Management 296: 81-89.
5. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2012. Temperature explains global variation in old-growth
forest biomass. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21: 998-1006. (see Corrigendum 2013 listed
below under “Other scientific publications”)
6. Larjavaara, M. 2012. Democratic less-developed countries cause global deforestation.
International Forestry Review 14: 299-313. Comments by author and others:
http://recoftc.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/is-democracy-good-or-bad-for-forests/
7. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2012. Still rethinking the value of high wood density.
American Journal of Botany 99:165-168.
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8. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2011. Cross-section mass: an improved basis for woody
debris necromass inventory. Silva Fennica 45: 291-298.
9. Wallenius, T., Larjavaara, M., Shibistova, O. & Heikkinen, J. 2011. Declining fires in Larix
dominated forests northern Irkutsk District. International Journal of Wildland Fire 20: 248-254.
10. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2010. Comparison of decay classification, knife test and
two penetrometers for estimating wood density of coarse woody debris. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 40: 2313-232.
11. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2010. Rethinking the value of high wood density.
Functional Ecology 24: 701-705.
12. Larjavaara, M. 2010. Maintenance cost, toppling risk and size of trees in a self-thinning stand.
Journal of Theoretical Biology 265: 65-67.
13. Larjavaara, M. 2008. A review on benefits and disadvantages of tree diversity. Open Forest
Science Journal 2008: 16-18.
14. Tanskanen, H., Granström, A., Larjavaara, M. & Puttonen, P. 2007. Experimental fire behavior in
managed Pinus sylvestris and Picea abies stands of Finland. International Journal of Wildland Fire
16: 414-425.
15. Larjavaara, M., Pennanen, J. & Tuomi, T.J. 2005. Lightning that ignites forest fires in Finland.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 132: 171-180.
16. Larjavaara, M., Kuuluvainen, T. & Rita H. 2005. Spatial distribution of lightning-ignited forest
fires in Finland. Forest Ecology and Management 208: 177-188.
17. Tuomi, T.J. & Larjavaara, M. 2005. Identification and analyses of flash cells in thunderstorms.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 131: 1191-1214.
18. Larjavaara, M., Kuuluvainen, T., Tanskanen, H. & Venäläinen, A. 2004. Variation in forest fire
ignition probability in Finland. Silva Fennica 38(3): 253-266.
Theses
19. Larjavaara, M. 2005. Climate and forest fires in Finland – Influence of lightning-caused ignitions
and fuel moisture. University of Helsinki. Doctoral thesis (www.metla.fi/dissertationes).
20. Larjavaara, M. 1999. Pitkä kiertoaika ja sen toteutus kaksijaksoisuudella ja yläharvennuksilla (in
Finnish). Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki. Master’s thesis. 76 p.
21. Larjavaara, M. 1999. Metsikön kiertoajan muutoksen muut kuin taloudelliset vaikutukset (In
Finnish). Department of Limnology and Environmental Protection, University of Helsinki.
Secondary thesis. 88 p.
Oral conference presentations by Larjavaara
22. Larjavaara, M., Kanninen, M., Alam, S., Anderson-Teixeira, K.J., Gordillo, H., Koskinen, J.,
Kukkonen, M., Käykö, N., Mäkinen, A., Nescio, N., Pienimäki, A., Poeplau, C. & Wei, X. 2015.
Expert perceptions on cost of increasing biospheric carbon in landscapes in Finland, Indonesia,
Peru and Tanzania.
23. Larjavaara, M., Kanninen, M., Gordillo, H., Gonzales, J., Kowler, L.F., Larson, A.M. &
Ravikumar, A. 2014. How much carbon in future landscapes? Future Infinite Academic –
Sustainable futures in a changing climate. Helsinki, Finland, June 11-12, 2014. Oral presentation
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and abstract. Our Common Future Under Climate Change. Paris, France, July 7-10. Oral
presentation and abstract.
24. Larjavaara, M. 2012. Why trees are of the size that they are? 7th Plant Biomechanics International
Conference. Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 20-24, 2012. Oral presentation and abstract.
25. Larjavaara, M., Muller-Landau, H.C. & Vastaranta, M. 2012. The potential impacts of increasing
temperatures on old-growth forest biomass density. European Geosciences Union General
Assembly. Vienna, Austria, April 22-27, 2012. Oral presentation, poster (solicited) and Abstract.
26. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2011. Temperature variation and biomass. British
Ecological Society Annual Symposium on Forests and Global Change. Cambridge, UK, March 2830, 2011. Oral presentation and abstract.
27. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2010. Intra-annual temperature variation and forest
biomass. Pasoh International Symposium. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 10-11, 2010. Oral
presentation and CD-ROM-article.
28. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2009. CTFS Global Forest Carbon Research Initiative and
how we quantify fallen coarse woody debris. ATBC Asia-Pacific Chapter annual meeting. Chiang
Mai, Thailand, February 12-15, 2009. Oral presentation and abstract.
29. Larjavaara, M. 2007. How many species should be mixed and how much genetic diversity is
needed? International Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration. Seoul, South Korea, May 1419, 2007. Oral presentation and extended abstract.
30. Larjavaara, M., Nghia, N.H., Rimbawanto, A., Thomson, L. & Tolentino, E. 2007. Diversity of
trees in forestation and restoration in Southeast Asia. Regional conference – Biodiversity
Conservation in Tropical Planted Forests in Southeast Asia. Bintulu, Malaysia, January 15-17,
2007. Oral presentation and abstract.
31. Larjavaara, M., Pennanen, J. and Tuomi, T.J. 2004. Lightning that ignites forest fires in Finland.
5th International Conference on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests. Dubna, Russia, August 15, 2004. Oral presentation and abstract.
32. Larjavaara, M. & Tuomi, T.J. 2004. Thunderstorms and lightning that ignite forest fires –
Reported ignitions linked with located strokes in Finland. 18th International Lightning Detection
Conference. Helsinki, Finland, June 7-9, 2004. Oral presentation, abstract and CD-ROM-article.
33. Larjavaara, M., Kuuluvainen, T., Tanskanen, H. & Venäläinen, A. 2004. Variation in forest fire
ignition probability in Finland. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural
Disturbances and Ecosystem-Based Forest Management. Tartu, Estonia, May 27-28, 2004. Oral
presentation and extended abstract (Transactions of the Faculty of Forestry, Estonian Agricultural
University, 37, 100-102).
34. Larjavaara, M. 2003. Rotation lengths, non-economic values and uneven-aged forest
management. IUFRO International Interdisciplinary Conference on Uneven-aged Forest
Management: Alternative Forms, Practices, and Constraints. Espoo, Finland, June 9-11, 2003. Oral
presentation and abstract.
35. Larjavaara, M., Kuuluvainen, T., Rita H. & Venäläinen, A. 2002. Spatial distribution of lightning
ignited forest fires in Finland. Forest Fire Research & Wildland Fire Safety – IV International
Conference on Forest Fire Research 2002. Luso, Coimbra, Portugal, November 18-23, 2002.
Millpress. Oral presentation, abstract (Millpress) and CD-ROM-article.
36. Larjavaara, M., Kuuluvainen, T., Rita H. & Venäläinen, A. 2002. Spatio-temporal distribution of
lightning ignited forest fires in Finland. 4th International workshop on Disturbance Dynamics in
Boreal Forests - Disturbance Processes and their Ecological Effects. Prince George, Canada,
August 9-14 2002. Oral presentation and abstract.
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Oral or poster conference presentations by another person than Larjavaara
37. Mäkipää, R., Tahvonen, O., Linkosalo, T., Niinimäki, S., Pihlainen, S., Peltoniemi, M.,
Larjavaara, M. & Mäkelä, A. 2012. Economically optimal adaptation of forest management in the
changing climate. Tackling climate change: the contribution of forest scientific knowledge. Tours,
France, May 21-24, 2012. Poster and abstract.
38. Lampela, M., Larjavaara, M., Jauhiainen, J., Tantulo, U., Jaya, A., Limin, S. & Vasander, H.
2012. STEM – Enhancing academic capacity and awareness of the challenges and threats on
tropical peatlands. Peatlands in Balance. 14th International Peat Congress, Stockholm, Sweden,
June 3-8, 2012. Poster presentation and short article.
39. Muller-Landau, H.C., Larjavaara, M., Valencia, R.R., Firdaus, M., Kiratiprayoon, S., Supardi,
N.M.N., Bunyavejchewin,S. & Tan, S. 2009. Large forest plots, climate change, and the global
carbon cycle: Linking forest carbon dynamics to their drivers via forest structure and composition.
94th ESA Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, USA, August 2-7, 2009. Oral presentation and abstract.
40. Muller-Landau, H.C., Turner, B.L., Larjavaara, M., King, D., Dong, S.X., Bunyavejchewin, S.,
Supardi, N. & Hubbell, S.P. 2008. Smithsonian Global Forest Carbon Research Initiative:
Quantifying and explaining variation in carbon pools and fluxes in tropical and temperate forests.
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation annual meeting. Paramaribo, Suriname, June 913, 2008. Poster and abstract.
41. Muller-Landau, H.C., Turner, B.L., Larjavaara, M., King, D., Dong, S.X., Bunyavejchewin, S.,
Supardi and N. & Hubbell, S.P. 2008. Smithsonian Global Forest Carbon Research Initiative:
Quantifying and explaining variation in carbon pools and fluxes in tropical and temperate forests.
NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop. Adelphi, USA, April 28 – May 2,
2008. Poster and abstract..
42. Sajise, P.E., Lim, E.S., George, M.L.., Bai, K., Kruijssen, F., Hong, L.T., Larjavaara, M., Mathur,
P., Molina, A., Oliver, J., Rao, V.R., Sthapit, B. & Zhang, Z. 2007. Issues and Potentials of
Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Development. Paper presented during the launching of the name
“Bioversity International” in Malaysia. Serdang, Malaysia. Oral presentation and article.
43. Kuuluvainen, T., Larjavaara, M., Pennanen, J. & Wallenius, T. 2004. Natural disturbance
dynamics of boreal forests in Finland: new findings and implications for management. In
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Symposium of the International Association of Vegetation Science.
July 18-23, 2004. Kailua-Kona, USA. Oral presentation and abstract
Poster conference presentations by Larjavaara
44. Larjavaara, M., Linkosalo, T., Mäkelä, A. & Mäkipää, R. 2013. Modelling tree structure –
tapering trunks and complex crowns. 10th Finnish Plant Science Days. Helsinki, Finland, 13-15
May, 2013. Poster and abstract.
45. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2011. Temperature variation and biomass. European
Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna, Austria, April 3-8, 2011. Poster and abstract.
46. Muller-Landau, H. C., Turner, B. L. & Larjavaara, M. 2009. Quantifying and explaining variation
in carbon pools and fluxes. 23rd New Phytologist Symposium – Carbon cycling in tropical
ecosystems. Guangzhou, China, 17-20 November, 2009. Poster and abstract.
47. Larjavaara, M. (presenter, no name in the poster). 2005. IPGRI’s forest genetic resources
activities. Conference of Forestry and Forest Products Research. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22-24
November, 2005. Poster.
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48. Larjavaara, M. (presenter, no name in the poster). 2005. IPGRI’s forest genetic resources
activities. 8th Round Table Conference on Dipterocarps. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November
15-17, 2005. Poster.
Internet published protocols (www.ctfs.si.edu/group/Carbon/Protocol+Documents)
49. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2011. Woody debris research: Overview.
50. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2010. Woody debris research protocol: CWD dynamics.
51. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2009. Woody debris research protocol: Long transects.
52. Muller-Landau, H.C. & Larjavaara, M. 2009. Plastic band dendrometer protocol.
Other scientific publications
53. Larjavaara, M. & Muller-Landau, H.C. 2013. Corrigendum on ”Temperature explains global
variation in old-growth forest biomass”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 772.
54. Larjavaara, M. 2013. Interactive comment on “Productivity of aboveground coarse wood biomass
and stand age related to soil hydrology of Amazonian forests in the Purus-Madeira interfluvial area”
by B. B. L. Cintra et al.. Biogeosciences Discussions C1225-C1232. Public peer-review (see above
section “Peer-review for international journals” for other reviews).
55. Framstad, E., de Wit, H., Mäkipää, R., Larjavaara, M., Vesterdal, L. & Karltun, E. 2013.
Biodiversity, carbon storage and dynamics of old northern forests. TemaNord report 2013:507.
Nordic Council of Ministers. 130 p.
56. Larjavaara, M. 2011. Poikkileikkausmassaan perustuva uusi menetelmä maapuiden inventointiin
(In Finnish). Metsätieteen aikakauskirja 3/2011. Extended abstract.
57. Larjavaara, M. & Heikkilä, T. 2005. Sään ja ilmaston vaikutus metsäpaloihin (in Finnish). Finnish
Ministry of the Interior. Reseach report 1/2005.
58. Larjavaara, M., Kuuluvainen, T., Tanskanen, H. & Venäläinen, A. 2004. Metsäpalon
syttymistodennäköisyyden ilmastosta johtuva vaihtelu (In Finnish). Metsätieteen aikakauskirja
3/2004. Extended abstract.
59. Larjavaara, M. 2000. Impact des feux de brousse sur le pâturage (In French, summary in English).
Finnagro. Research report. 62 p.
60. Larjavaara, M. 2000. Kiertoajan suorat vaikutukset (in Finnish). Metsätieteen aikakauskirja
3/2000. Article.
61. Larjavaara, M. 1998. Talous ei ole metsän kiertoajan ainoa peruste (in Finnish). Maaseudun
tulevaisuus 28.5.1998. Article.
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