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
Carbon retention in forest ecosystems and forest-based production Carbon taken up in gross primary production cycles through autotrophic respiration, net primary growth (growth), litter fall and emission into the atmosphere from decaying soil organic matter (litter and humus). The balance between net primary production and emission indicates the net ecosystem exchange (NEE): NEE =
Authors & references
Authors:
Seppo Kellomäki, Pekka Niemelä, Heli Peltola, Veikko Koski and Pertti Pulkkinen
References:
- Raich, J.W., and Schlesinger, W. H. 1992. The global carbon dioxide flux in soil respiration and its relationship to vegetation and climate. Tellus 44B: 81–99.
- Mahli, Y., Meir, P, and Brown, S. 2002. Forests, carbon and global change. Philosophical Transactions A 360: 1567–1591.
- Kellomäki, S. 2017. Managing boreal forests in the context of climate change. Impacts, adaptation and climate change mitigating. CRC Press. A Sciences Publishers Book. Boca Raton/London/New York. 357 p.
- Liski, J., and Westman, C. J. 1997a. Carbon storage in forest soil of Finland. 1. Effect of thermoclimate. Biogeochemistry 36: 239–260.
- Liski, J., and Westman, C. J. 1997b. Carbon storage in forest soil of Finland. 2. Size and regional patterns. Biogeochemistry 36: 261–274.
- Liski, J., Pussinen, A., Pingoud, K., Mäkipää, R., and Karjalainen, T. 2001. Which rotation length is favourable to carbon sequestration? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 2004–2013.
- Pukkala, T. 2014. Does management improve the carbon balance of forestry. Forestry 90: 125–135.
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