This dissertation develops a framework to examine socially optimal forest management when nutrient and sediment loads from forestry are considered as a negative externality. The Faustmann rotation model is extended to include the runoff function to describe the water quality impacts of nutrient and ...

The performance of a forest inventory is typically evaluated using error indices, such as root mean square error (RMSE) and the difference between means of observed and predicted attributes (MD). However, error indices or errors as such, do not fully reveal the practical usefulness of forest...

Climate change mitigation aims to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Forest mitigates climate change by accumulating atmospheric carbon to biomass. This biomass can be used to various products which also act as a carbon sink. Carbon sequestration is the opposite of carbon emission, but not...

This dissertation examines forest owners' views of forest-related decision support services and knowledge use in them in private forests in Finland. Decision support services provide information through forest management planning and advice. The decision-making about and implementation of forest...

Managed forests play several important roles in a changing climate and environment. Wood binds and stores carbon both as it grows and when processed into long-lived wood products. Taking these effects into account in forest management requires careful planning to ensure the sustainability of forest ...

In the Mediterranean region, soil erosion processes are common due to the climate of the region, the varying topography, as well as the long historical influence of people and intensive land use. Forests play an important protective role in the fight against erosion and soil depletion. The study...

The use of marketed mushrooms is predicted to increase worldwide. Currently, the marketed mushroom yields in Finland remain largely unutilized, and forest management mainly aims at timber production. In this thesis, the availability and limitations of the raw material procurement and market supply...

The purpose of this thesis was to develop the concept of cost-efficient Juvenile Stand Management (JSM) for planted Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) stands. The principles of time based management were followed, by integrating regeneration activities as a cost-efficient value chain and by...

Forests play a vital role in mitigating climate change, as they sequester and store large quantities of carbon. This dissertation examines how carbon storage may be increased by changing forest management at the stand level. To extend the economics of forest carbon storage beyond single-species...

This thesis explores the effects of controlled burning and logging intensity on wood-decaying polypore fungi 10 years after the treatments. Intensive forest management, where most of the wood is removed from harvested sites, has resulted in many dead-wood-dependent species becoming Red-listed. The...