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Management of growing and developing forest over time
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:
- Koivisto, P. 1962. Kasvu- ja tuottotaulukoita. Summary: Growth and yield tables. Communicationes Instituti Forestalis Fenniae 51(8):1–48.
- Aaltonen, V. T. 1925. Metsikön itseharvenemisesta ja puiden kasvutilasta luonnonmetsissä. Referat: Űber die Selbstabscheideidung und den Wuchsraum der Bäume in Naturbestanden. Communicationes Instituti Forestalis Fenniae 9:1–17.
- Yoda, K., Kira, K., Ogawa, H., and Hozumi, K. 1963. Intraspecific competition among higher plants. XI. Self-thinning on overcrowded pure stands under cultivated and natural condition. Journal of Biology, Osaka City University. D14:107–129.
- White, J. 1980. Demographic factors in populations of plants. In: Solbrig, O.T. (ed.). Demography and evolution in plant populations. Botanical Monographs 15: 21–48.
- Braathe, P. 1952. Planteavstandesns virkning på bestandsutvikling og masseproduksjon in granskog. Medeland av Norske Skog Forskoksvedent 11: 425–469.
- Jack, W. 1971. The influence of tree spacing on Sitka spruce growth. Irish Forestry 28: 13–33.
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