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
Determination of moisture content Moisture content (MC) is defined on a green weight (wet basis) or dry weight (dry basis) basis. In wood science, forestry and timber procurement and among bioenergy users, the wet basis is applied, in which case MC is understood as the mass of water in proportion to the green mass of
Authors & references
Authors:
Jari Lindblad, Antti Asikainen and Erkki Verkasalo
References:
- Järvinen, T., Kalvas, T., Malinen, J., Teppola, P., Tiitta, M., and Virtanen, A. 2008. Puun kosteuden jatkuvatoiminen mittaus [Continuous measurement of moisture content in wood]. Paperi ja Puu-Paper and Timber 90(3): 28-33. ISSN 0031-1243.
- Lindblad, J., and Hujo, S. 2006. Puutavaran tehdasmittaus menetelmittäin [Methods of timber measurement at the mill]. In: Kiviniemi, M. (ed.). Puukauppa-valmistelu, sopimus, puutavaran mittaus. Metsäkustannus Ltd., Helsinki, pp. 372-387. ISBN 952-5118-82-7.
- Järvinen, T., Malinen, J., Tiitta, M., and Teppola, P. 2007. State-of-art selvitys puun kosteuden mittauksesta [State-of-art review on the measurement of moisture content in wood]. VTT Research Report, Nro VTT-R-013-325-07. 90 p. [Website document].Available: http://www.vtt.fi/publications. [Reference 23.06.2008].
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