Mr. Jihwi Jang

Kia ora koutou (greeting), I am originally from Korea (South). I have always loved forests, especially trees, wildlife, and from an early age have been fascinated by how they coped with the four extremely distinct seasons in the Korean peninsula. My study is normally focusing on the role of trees (responses to abiotic extreme) in man-made habitats with global warming and environmental stressed conditions, such as tree plantations on reclaimed tideland, peatland, semiarid area and urban forests. Throughout my study in various landscapes, especially living in Finland and New Zealand, I have gained ecological knowledge of various forest ecosystems like temperate, tropical and boreal forests, and how they can mitigate climate changes and affect ecosystems with their ecological functions over time. As an aspiring forest and environmental scientist, I am currently strongly interested in multidisciplinary research in the interaction between Forest Sciences and Environmental Sciences. My research covers ecophysiological effects on anthropogenic N deposition and climate changes (based on drought, elevated air temp., carbon dioxide, and other projection scenarios), a global phenomenon that results from the anthropogenic impact in urban forest context, focusing on tree species, including indigenous and exotic. Ngā mihi,