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
Growing stocking According to FAO, growing stocking is an estimate of the volume of living trees exceeding a defined diameter at breast height. 1 Growing stocking includes the stem from ground level or stump height up to a defined top diameter. Growing stocking may also include branches up to a defined minimum diameter.1 Growing stocking
Authors & references
Authors:
Seppo Kellomäki, Timo Karjalainen and Antti Marjokorpi
References:
- FAO. 2016. Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015. How are the world’s forests changing? Second edition. Rome. 44 p.
- Keenan, R. J., Reams G., Achard, F., de Freitas, J. V., Grainger, A., and Lindquist,E. 2015. Dynamics of global forest areas: results from FAO forest resources assessment 2015. Forest Ecology and Management 352: 9–20.
- Karjalainen, T., Kellomäki, S., and Marjokorpi, A. Global forest resources. In: Kellomäki S. (ed.) Forest resources and sustainable management. Second Edition. Book 2 in Papermaking Science and Technology. Paper engineers’ Association/Paper ja Puu Oy. Jyväskylä. 98–132 p.
- Köhl, M., Lasco, R., Cifuentes, M., Jonsson, Ö., Korhonen, K. T., Mundhenk, P., de Jesus Navar, J., and Stinson, G. 2015. Changes in forest production, biomass and carbon: results from the 2015 UN FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment. Forest Ecology and Management 352: 21–34.
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