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
Roundwood markets The market for roundwood is characterised by the concept of derived demand. Consumers (private persons and businesses) buy forest products, most importantly paper products and wood-based products. To manufacture them, the industry needs raw materials and, hence, the demand for roundwood is categorised as derived demand. Figure 1 depicts the basic relations in
Authors & references
Authors:
Lauri Valsta and Rainer Hägglund
References:
- Green, J.L. 1997. Federal income tax incentives for private in the United States. Unasylva 48(2).
- Forest Products Statistics. 2019. FAO. http://www.fao.org/forestry/statistics/en/.
- Callaghan D.W., Khanal P.N., Straka T.J. and Hagan D.L. 2019. Influence of Forestry Practices Cost on Financial Performance of Forestry Investments. Resources 2019, 8, 28; doi:10.3390/resources8010028.
- Häggblom R. 2019. Personal communication, Vision Hunters, Ltd.
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