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Timber measurement
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:
Jari Lindblad, Antti Asikainen and Erkki Verkasalo
References:
- Granvik, B.-A. 1993. Puu- ja metsäteknologian peruskäsitteitä ja termejä. Osa 2: metsäteknologia [Basic concepts and terms of wood and forest technology. Part 2: Forest technology]. University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Resource Management, Publications 1, Helsinki, 1993, pp. 98-171. ISBN 951-45-6320-4. ISSN 1236-1313.
- Kärkkäinen, M. 1984. Puutavaran mittauksen perusteet [Principles of timber measurement]. Helsingin yliopiston monistuspalvelu, painatusjaos, Helsinki. 252 p. ISBN 951-99582-3-1.
- Maa- ja metsätalousministeriön asetus puutavaran mittauksen mittausmenetelmäryhmien ja mittausmenetelmien tarkemmasta sisällöstä sekä mittauslaitteiden käytöstä. Nro 12/13. 17.6.2013.
- Sikanen, L. 1993. Metsätraktorin kuormainvaakaan perustuvan mittausmenetelmän soveltuvuus puutavaran tilavuusmittaukseen [The applicability of forwarder-based weight measurement system for timber volume measurement]. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry. 29 p.
- Shetty, M. K., and Lyons, K. 2007. An onboard load measuring device for off-highway log trucks. International Journal of forest engineering 18(1): 33-40. ISSN 0843-5243.
- Kangas, A. and Päivinen, R. 1994. Metsän mittaus [Forest mensuration]. Silva Carelica 27, Joensuun yliopisto, Joensuu, 1994, pp 5-6. ISBN 951-708-965-1. ISSN 0780-8232.
- Melkas, T. 2018. Wood measuring methods used in 2017. Metsätehon tuloskalvosarja 6b/2018. Metsäteho Oy
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