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Harvest and timber transport
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:
Pertti Harstela and Antti Asikainen
References:
- Kahala, M.; Rantapuu, K. 1968. Tutkimus sahapuun kokoisten runkojen ja kokopuiden hakkuusta, juonnosta ja varastokäsittelystä. Summary: Study on cutting, skidding and handling at the landing of saw-log sizes stems and full trees. Helsinki, Finland. Metsateho. 6 p. Report. Nro 276.
- Kahala, M. 1979. Puutavaran kuormatraktorikuljetus ja siihen vaikuttavat tekijät. Summary: Forwarder transport of timber and factors influencing it. Helsinki, Finland. Metsateho. 7 p. Tiedotus — Report. Nro 355. 7 p. ISBN 951-673-045-0.
- Harvesting in 2017. North America, South America, Europe and Russia. Ponsse ltd. Pers. comm. Tuomo Moilanen, 20.6.2019.
- Rajamäki, J.; Kariniemi, A.; Oijala, T. 1996. Koneellisen hakkuun tuottavuus. Helsinki, Finland. Metsäteho. 50 p. Metsätehon raportti. Nro 8.
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