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Management for improving timber quality
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
Authors & references
Authors:
Seppo Kellomäki, Pekka Niemelä, Heli Peltola, Veikko Koski and Pertti Pulkkinen
References:
- Turkia, K., and Kellomäki, S. 1987. Kasvupaikan viljavuuden ja puuston tiheyden vaikutus nuorten mäntyjen oksien läpimittaan. Abstract: Influence of the site fertility and stand density on diameter of branches in young Scots pines. Folia Forestalia 705: 1–16.
- Oker-Blom, P. Kellomäki, S., Valtonen, E., and Väisänen, H. 1988. The structural development of Scots pine stand with varying initial density: a simulation model. Scandinavian Journal of forest Research 3: 185–200.
- Väisänen, H. Kellomäki, S., Oker-Blom, and P.Valtonen, E. 1988. The structural development of Scots pine stand with varying initial density: a preliminary model for quality of swan timber as affected by silvicultural measures. Scandinavian Journal of forest Research 4: 223–238.
- Tuimala A. Finnish Forest Research Institute. Unpublished material.
- Kilpeläinen, A., Peltola, H., Ryyppö, A., Sauvala, K., Laitinen, K., and Kellomäki, S. 2003. Wood properties of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) grown at elevated temperature and carbon dioxide concentration. Tree Physiology 23: 889–897.
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