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BIOservicES – Linking soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in different land uses: from the identification of drivers, pressures and climate change resilience to their economic valuation

InBestSoil – Monetary valuation of soil ecosystem services and creation of initiatives to invest in soil health: setting a framework for the inclusion of soil health in business and in the policy making

Forest4LV – Innovation in Forest Management and Value Chain for Latvia's Growth: New Forest Services, Products and Technologies

Working methods and technologies for restoration, planting, care and protection of forest stands

RuralBioUp – Empowering EU Rural Regions to scale-Up and adopt small-scale Bio-based solutions: the transition towards a sustainable, regenerative, inclusive and just circular bioeconomy

Developing of mechanical protection means for young forest stands from sheep wool

Development of tehnology for beech planting stock production

Improvement of silviculture practices in birch

LUA's transition to the new doctoral funding model

Elaboration of innovative White willow – perennial grass agroforestry systems on marginal mineral soils improved by wood ash and less demanded peat fractions amendments

Development of a new technology for the production of plant fertilizers from biogas plant fermentation residues – digestate and wood chip cogeneration residues – wood ash

Wild cherry (Cerasus avium Moench. syn. Prunus avium L.) propagation technology development and selection of perspective clones for the establishment of productive roundwood plantations under the climatic conditions of Latvia

Reducing uncertainty in the calculation of forest stand biomass and carbon stock in Latvia

Evaluation of climate change mitigation potential of agroforestry systems with mineral and organic soils

Silvicultural practices for establishment and management of poplar plantation for sustainable land use

MAGIC – Marginal lands for growing industrial crops: Turning a burden into an opportunity

Development of a multi-functional mounding device for forest restoration in stands with fertile and humid soils

Protection of tree trunks with protective spirals

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

Commercial thinning as a tool for the increase of the productivity and quality of silver birch plantations

GURINIMAS – Integrated Nitrogen Management System for the Gulf of Riga

Methods for planning and quality control of the measures for improvement of forest growth

CB2East – Central Baltic Cleantech Clusters expanding the East and the EU markets

Investigations on issues of establishment of birch plantations and production of birch planting stock

SRCplus – Short Rotation Woody Crops (SRC) plantations for local supply chains and heat use

Use of developed peat fields for agriculture

Dieback and regeneration of ash stands in Latvia

Development of fingerprinting techniques for fast rotation clonal plantation tree species

Developing the methods of plantation cultivation of fast-growing forest crops and evaluating the suitability of their wood for pelletizing

Methods and technologies for increasing the value of forest capital

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 and testing a multifunctional prototype machine for stubbing and mounding on cutovers

Interdependence between mineral nutrient availability for plants, qualitative and quantitative indices of wood biomass, and the pests and diseases

FUTUREforest – Woodlands for Climate Change

Analysing the efficiency and prime costs of tending and agrotechical treatment of young stands

Research on mineral nutrition of trees, biomass chemical composition, vitality and resistance of woody plants, spread of pests and diseases, ecology of pest pathogenes

Silvicultural and economic criteria and the actions promoting the use of mechanized seeding and planting technologies in forest regeneration

Accumulation of mineral nutrients and carbon in the above-ground parts and roots of trees in the young stands of natural and artificial origin

The technologies for cultivating deciduous in forest and non-forest lands to meet the demand for forest raw materials

Stump utilization for energy wood and plantation cultivation of energy crops – technologies and job engineering

Silvicultural evaluation of mechanized container stock planting technologies

Establishing sample plots for evaluating the effect of reproductive material on the growth of common birch and hybrid aspen in farmlands

Criteria and method for assessing the volume of energy wood and mechanized tending of the farmlands naturally overgrowing by forest

Investigating different stages of stand development in farmland afforestations

Properties of peaty and peat soils not used for agriculture and their suitability for forest cultivation

Analysis of potential forest regeneration methods in the sites stubbed out for energy wood

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

Research on the productivity and quality of mechanized technologies for restocking cutovers by the container planting stock