Forests and other biomass resources
- Introduction to biomass resources
- Trees, forest and forest ecosystems
- Global forest resources
- Structure and properties of wood and woody biomass
- Forest inventory and planning
- Management of forest ecosystems
- Forest production in ecological context
- Regeneration through natural seeding
- Regeneration through planting
- Genetic improvement of trees for forest plantations
- Management of growing and developing forest over time
- Spacing and thinning affecting availability of resources
- Thinning regimes and rules
- Management of sequestrate carbon and adaptation to climate change
- Management for improving timber quality
- Management of nutrient resources and site fertility
- Management of abiotic risks
- Management of biotic risks
- Characteristics of pest outbreaks
- Resistance mechanism of trees against herbivores and pathogens
- Induced defence
- Models explaining variation in chemical defence between plants
- Biological control in pest management
- Effects of forest management and structure on forest pests
- Climate change and forest damaged related to pests and herbivory
- Management of forests for sequetration carbon in carbon mitigating warming
- Carbon stocks in trees and soil
- Carbon balance in managed forests
- Carbon retentation in forest ecosystems and forest-based prodcution
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in forestry and forest-based production
- Mitigating radiative forcing in management
- * Radiative forcing related to carbon in ecosystem
- * Impacts of replacing fossil fuels and fossil materials on radiative forcing
- Management for adaptation to climate change
- Timber procurement
- Timber assortments
- Harvest and timber transport
- Harvesting woody biomass for energy
- Opening forest areas for logging by consturcting roads
- Storing timber
- Organising and planning harvesting operations
- Harvesting in industrial plantations
- Damage to timber
- Environmental impacts of timber harvesting
- Timber trade
- Timber measurement
- Wood markets and cost of wood
- Global forest related policies and governance
Mathematical programming Optimisation techniques available Forest management planning always involves optimisation, even when numerical optimisation techniques are not used. The purpose is to maximise the welfare or utility of the forest owner within the limits set by forestry legislation. To accomplish this task, planning requires two kinds of information, as shown in Figure 1: (1)
Authors & references
Author:
Timo Pukkala
References:
- Hoganson, H.M. and Rose, D.W. 1984. A simulation approach for optimal timber management scheduling. Forest Science 30: 220–238.
- Heinonen, T. and Pukkala, T. 2007. The use of cellular automaton approach in forest planning. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37(11): 2188-2200.
- Mathey, A.H. and Nelson, J. 2008. Decentralized Forest Planning Models-A Cellular Automata Framework. In: Gadow, K. v. and Pukkala, T. (eds.) Designing Green Landscapes, Springer. pp 169-185.
- Ihalainen, M., Alho, J., Kolehmainen, O. and Pukkala, T. 2002. Models for bilberry and cowberry yields in Forests. Forest Ecology and Management 157: 15-22.
- Bonet, J.A., Pukkala, T., Fischer, C.R., Palahí, M., de Aragón, J.M. and Colinas, C. 2008. Empirical models for predicting the yield of wild mushrooms in Scots pine forests in the Central Pyrenees. Annals of Forest Science 65(2)
- Pukkala, T., Kellomäki, S. & Mustonen, E. 1988. Predic¬tion of the ameni¬ty of a tree stand. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Resea¬rch 3: 533-544.
- Kangas, J., Karsikko, J., Laasonen, L. and Pukkala, T. 1993. A Method for estimating habitat suitability on the basis of expertise. Silva Fennica 27(4): 259-268.
- González, J.R., Palahí, M., Trasobares, A. and Pukkala, T. 2006. A fire risk model for forest stands in Catalonia (north-east of Spain). Annals of Forest Science 63: 169-173.
- González, J.R., Trasobares, A., Palahí, M. and Pukkala, T. 2007. Predicting tree survival in burned forests in Catalonia. Annals of Forest Science 64(7):733-742
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