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Harvesting woody biomass for energy
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:
- Andersson, G.; Asikainen, A.; Björheden, R.; Hall, P.W.; Hudson, J.B.; Jirjis, R.; Mead, D.J.; Nurmi, J.; Weetman, G.F. 2002. Production of Forest Energy. Chapter 3. In: Richardson, J.; Björdeden, R.; Hakkila, P; Lowe, A.T.; Smith, C.T. Bioenergy from sustainable forestry: Guiding principles and practise. Dordrecht-Boston-London. Kluwer Academic Publishers. P. 49-123. ISBN 1-4020-0676-4.
- Routa, J., Asikainen, A., Björheden, R., Laitila, J. & Röser, D. 2013. Forest energy procurement – state of the art in Finland and Sweden. WIREs Energy and Environment 2(6): 602-613. CrossRef
- Laitila, J.; Ala-Fossi, A.; Vartiamäki, T.; Ranta, T.; Asikainen, A. 2007. Kantojen noston ja metsäkuljetuksen tuottavuus. Summary: Productivity of stump lifting and forwarding. Joensuu, Finland. Finnish Forest Research Institute. 27 p. Metlan työraportteja/Working Papers. Nro 46. ISBN 978-951-40-2033-9.
- Heikkilä, J.; Laitila, J.; Tanttu, V.; Lindblad, J.; Sirén, M.; Asikainen, A.; Pasanen, K.; Korhonen, K.T. 2005. Karsitun energiapuun korjuuvaihtoehdot ja kustannustekijät. Joensuu, Finland. Finnish Forest Research Institute. 56 p. Metlan työraportteja/Working Papers. Nro 10. ISBN 951-40-1964-4.
- Jylhä, P.; Väätäinen, K.; Asikainen, A. 2007. Korjuri osaksi puunkorjuukalustoa. (Harwarder as a part of wood harvesting fleet) Julkaisussa: Kariniemi, A. (toim.). Kehittyvä puuhuolto 2007. 14.-15.2.2007, Jyväskylä. Seminaarijulkaisu. Helsinki, Finland. Metsäteho Oy, pp. 87-91. ISBN 978-951-673-198-1.
- Sandström, M. 2018. Metsähakkeen tuotantoketjut Suomessa vuonna 2017. Metsätehon tuloskalvosarja 11/2018. Metsäteho Oy http://www.metsateho.fi/wp-content/uploads/Tuloskalvosarja_2018_11_Metsahakkeen_tuotantoketjut_2017.pdf, accessed 19.6.2019
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