Aigars Indriksons Academic position Assistant professor / Researcher Dr. silv. Field of research 4. Development and adaptation of technologies for obtaining high-value agricultural and forest products, as well as in veterinary medicine E-mail aigars.indriksons@lbtu.lv Telephone +37129569364 Assist. prof., Dr. silv. Aigars Indriksons is currently researcher and a teaching staff at the Institute of Forestry of the Faculty of Forestry and environmental sciences of the Latvia University of Life sciences and technologies. He has research experience in forest hydrology and soil science in relation to silvicultural activities. His doctoral thesis defended in 2010 was about the cycle of biogenous elements in drained forests. In the thesis the amount of biogenous elements and their input-output proportions in the drained forests as the result of hydrotechnical drainage as silvicultural activity have been investigated. Dr. Indriksons has also researched the impact of nitrogen fixing grey alder on the amount of biogenous elements in river flowing through grey alder stands. As well he provided a long-term experiment about impact of wood ash application on groundwater quality and ground cover vegetation in drained pine forests on deep peat soils. This experiment was a part of an international project “Wood for energy – a contribution to the development of sustainable forest management” (WOOD-EN-MAN) of the EU 5th Framework Programme in which seven partners from seven Nordic and Baltic countries were involved. Dr. Indriksons has been involved also in EC LIFE-Nature Programme project “Implementation of mire habitat management plan for Latvia”. He has established a wide network of groundwater monitoring in several raised bog habitats and river valleys in Latvia. Dr. Indriksons has been management committee member of FPS COST Action E25 “European network for a long-term forest ecosystem and landscape research programme” (ENFORS) and FPS COST Action FP0601 “Forest management and the water cycle” (FORMAN). National project leader in the frame of international project BioSoil “Forest soil inventory and assessment of biological diversity”. The most important projects (2019-2025) The ressources of energy wood in undergrowth and understorey of felling age Scots pine stands in drained forests., 2018 , project leader
