Using the ComBio decision support system to assess whether energy wood and/or pulpwood should be harvested in young forests

References

• Anttila P, Haara A, Maltamo M, Miina J, Päivinen R. 2001. Metsän mittauksen tutkimusaineistoja (Research data for forest mensuration). Joensuun yliopisto, metsätieteellinen tiedekunta. Tiedonantoja 128. 9 pp + CD. (In Finnish)
   Google Scholar
• Anttila P, Korhonen KT, Asikainen A. 2009. Forest energy potential of small trees from young stands in Finland. In: Mia Savolainen (Ed.). Bioenergy 2009. Sustainable Bioenergy Business. 4th International Bioenergy Conference from 31 August to 4 September 2009. Book of Proceedings Part I. FINBIOn julkaisusarja – FINBIO Publications 1(44), 221–226.
   Google Scholar
• Asikainen A, Laitila J, Ranta T. 2001. Hakkuutähdehakkeen kustannustekijät ja suurimittakaavaisen hankinnan logistiikka (Cost factors and large scale procurement of logging residue chips). In: Alakangas, E. (Ed.). Puuenergian teknologiaohjelman vuosikirja 2001. Puuenergian teknologiaohjelman vuosiseminaari, Jyväskylä, 5.–6.9.2001. VTT Symposium 216: 47–60. (In Finnish)
   Google Scholar
• Belbo H. 2011. Efficiency of accumulating felling heads and harvesting heads in mechanized thinning of small diameter trees. Linnaeus University Dissertations No 66/2011. 42 p.
   Google Scholar
• Bergkvist I. 2003. Flerträdshantering höjer prestationen och ökar nettot i klen gallring. [Multi-tree handling increases both productivity and profitability in smallwood thinning]. Skogforsk Resultat 5/2003. 4 p. (In Swedish)
   Google Scholar
• Di Fulvio F, Bergström D. 2013. Analyses of a single-machine system for harvesting pulpwood and/or energy-wood in early thinnings. Int J For Eng. 24:2–15. doi:10.1080/14942119.2013.798935
   Google Scholar
• Di Fulvio F, Kroon A, Bergström D, Nordfjell T. 2011. Comparison of energy wood and pulpwood thinning systems in young birch stands. Scand J For Res. 26:339–349. doi:10.1080/02827581.2011.568951
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fraser NM, Hauge JW. 1998. Multicriteria approval: application of approval voting concepts to MCDM problems. J Multi‐Criteria Decis Anal. 7:263–273. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1360(199809)7:5<263::AID-MCDA199>3.0.CO;2-1
   Google Scholar
• Hakkila P. 1989. Utilization of residual forest biomass. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag; p.568.
   Google Scholar
• Hakkila P. 2005. Fuel from early thinnings. Int J Forest Eng. 16:11–14.
   Google Scholar
• Hakkila P, Kalaja H, Saranpää P. 1995. Etelä-Suomen ensiharvennusmänniköt kuitu- ja energialähteenä. (The first-thinning stands of Scots pine as a source of pulpwood and energy wood). Finnish Forest Research Institute, Research Papers 582. 93 p. + app. (In Finnish).
   Google Scholar
• Helmisaari H-S, Hanssen K, Jacobson S, Kukkola M, Luiro J, Saarsalmi A, Tamminen P, Tveite B. 2011. Logging residue removal after thinning in Nordic boreal forests: long-term impact on tree growth. For Ecol Manage. 261:1919–1927. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.02.015
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hiltunen V. 2012. Developing decision support in participatory strategic forest planning in Metsähallitus. Dissertationes Forestales 141. 47 p. Accessed Feb. 1, 2013 http://www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df141.htm
   Google Scholar
• Iwarsson Wide M. 2011. Var går gränsen? Massaved och/eller energiuttag i klen gallring. (Where is the breakpoint? Extraction of pulp wood and/or energy wood in thinning of small-dimension stands). Resultat från Skogforsk 9, 2011. (In Swedish)
   Google Scholar
• Jacobson S, Kukkola M. 1999. Skogsbransleuttag i gallring ger kännbara tillväxtförluster (Forest fuel extraction gives noticeable growth losses in thinning). Skogforsk. Resultat 13.4 p. (In Swedish)
   Google Scholar
• Jylhä P. 2011. Harvesting of undelimbed Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) from first thinnings for integrated production of kraft pulp and energy. Dissertationes Forestales 133. 73 s Dissertationes Forestales 133. 73 p. Accessed Feb. 1, 2013 http://www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df133.htm
   Google Scholar
• Jylhä P, Dahl O, Laitila J, Kärhä K. 2010. The effect of supply system on the wood paying capability of a kraft pulp mill using Scots pine harvested from first thinnings. Silva Fennica. 44:695–714.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kärhä K. 2011. Integrated harvesting of energy wood and pulpwood in first thinnings using the two-pile cutting method. Biomass Bioenerg. 35:3397–3403. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.10.029
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kärhä K, Jylhä P, Laitila J. 2011. Integrated procurement of pulpwood and energy wood from early thinnings using whole-tree bundling. Biomass Bioenerg. 35:3389–3396. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.08.068
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kärhä K, Laitila J, Jylhä P, Nuutinen Y, Keskinen S. 2009. Kokopuun paalaus -tuotantoketjun tuottavuus ja kustannukset (Productivity and costs of whole-tree bundling). Metsätehon raportti 211. 68 pp. (In Finnish)
   Google Scholar
• Keeney R, Raiffa H. 1993. Decisions with multiple objectives. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Laasasenaho J. 1982. Taper curve and volume functions for pine, spruce and birch. Communicationes Instituti Forestalis Fenniae 108.
   Google Scholar
• Laasasenaho J, Päivinen R. 1986. Kuvioittaisen arvioinnin tarkistamisesta (On the checking of inventory by compartments). Folia Forestalia 664. 19 p. (In Finnish)
   Google Scholar
• Laitila J. 2006. Cost and sensitive analysis tools for forest energy procurement chains. Metsanduslikud Uurimused - Forestry Studies. 45:5–10.
   Google Scholar
• Laitila J. 2012. Methodology for choice of harvesting system for energy wood from early thinning. Dissertationes Forestales 143. 68 p. Accessed Feb. 1, 2013 http://www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df143.htm
   Google Scholar
• Laitila J, Asikainen A, Anttila P. 2008. Energiapuuvarat (Energy wood resources). In: Kuusinen M, ja Ilvesniemi H, editor. Energiapuun korjuun ympäristövaikutukset (Environmental effects of energy wood harvesting), tutkimusraportti. Tapion ja Metlan julkaisuja. Helsinki, Finland. In Finnish. Accessed Feb. 1, 2013. www.metsavastaa.net/energiapuu/raportti.
   Google Scholar
• Laitila J, Heikkilä J, Anttila P. 2010. Harvesting alternatives, accumulation and procurement cost of small-diameter thinning wood for fuel in Central Finland. Silva Fennica. 44:465–480.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Laitila J, Leinonen A, Flyktman M, Virkkunen M, Asikainen A. 2011. Metsähakkeen hankinta ja toimituslogistiikan haasteet ja kehittämistarpeet (Forest chips procurement, challenges and development needs of logistics). Espoo 2010. VTT Tiedotteita – Research Notes 2564. 143 s. (In Finnish). Accessed Feb. 1, 2013 http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/tiedotteet/2010/T2564.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Laitila J, Väätäinen K. 2011. Kokopuun ja rangan autokuljetus ja haketustuottavuus (Truck transportation and chipping productivity of whole-trees and delimbed stems). Metsätieteen aikakauskirja. 2/2011:107–126. Accessed Feb. 1, 2013 http://www.metla.fi/aikakauskirja/full/ff11/ff112107.pdf.In Finnish).
   Google Scholar
• Leskinen P, Kangas AS, Kangas J. 2004. Rank-based modelling of preferences in multi-criteria decision making. Eur J Oper Res. 158:721–733. 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00384-9
   Google Scholar
• Mustajoki J, Hämäläinen RP. 2000. Web-HIPRE: global decision support by value tree and AHP analysis. INFOR. 38:208–220.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nurmi J, Hillebrand K. 2007. The characteristics of whole-tree fuel stocks from silvicultural cleanings and thinnings. Biomass Bioenerg. 31:381–392. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.01.010
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Palviainen M, Finér L. 2012. Estimation of nutrient removals in stem-only and whole-tree harvesting of Scots pine, Norway spruce, and birch stands with generalized nutrient equations. Eur J For Res. 131:945–964. doi:10.1007/s10342-011-0567-4
   Google Scholar
• Pasanen K, Kurttila M, Pykäläinen J, Kangas J, Leskinen P. 2005. MESTA - Non-industrial private forest owners’ decision-support environment for the evaluation of alternative forest plans over the internet. Int J Inf Technol Decis Making. 4:601–620. doi:10.1142/S0219622005001726
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peltola A. 2012. Puukauppa (Roundwood markets). Metsätilastollinen vuosikirja 2012 - Skogsstatistisk årsbok - Finnish Statistical Yearbook of Forestry. SVT Maa-, metsä- ja kalatalous. Metsäntutkimuslaitos, 472 p. (In Finnish)
   Google Scholar
• Petty A, Kärhä K. 2014. Productivity and cost evaluations of energy-wood and pulpwood harvesting systems in first thinnings. Int J For Eng. doi:10.1080/14942119.2014.893129
   Google Scholar
• Räisänen T, Nurmi J. 2011. Impacts of changing the minimum diameter of roundwood on the accumulation of logging residue in first thinnings of Scots pine and Norway spruce. Biomass Bioenerg. 35:2674–2682. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.03.002
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ranta T, Lahtinen P, Elo J, Laitila J. The regional balance of wood fuel demand and supply in Finland, Bioenergy 2005, International Bioenergy in Wood Industry Conference and Exhibition. 12 15 September 2005. Jyväskylä, Finland. Book of proceedings. FINBIO publication 32. p. 39–45.
   Google Scholar
• Repola J. 2008. Biomass equations for birch in Finland. Silva Fennica. 42:605–624.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Repola J. 2009. Biomass equations for Scots pine and Norway spruce in Finland. Silva Fennica. 43:625–647.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Siirtola H. 2007. Interactive Visualization of Multidimensional Data. Dissertations in Interactive Technology, Number 7, University of Tampere
   Google Scholar
• Staaf H, Olsson BA. 1991. Acidity in four coniferous forest soils after different harvesting regimes of logging slash. Scand J For Res. 6:19–29. doi:10.1080/02827589109382643
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stöd R. 2000. Ensiharvennuskuusikoiden ja –männiköiden ulkoinen laatu ja pyöreän rakennuspuun kertymä (Quality of wood and accumulation of timber from first thinning of Norway spruce and Scots pine). Joensuun yliopisto, Metsätieteellinen tiedekunta. Pro gradu. 67 p. In Finnish.
   Google Scholar
• Tahvanainen T, Forss E. 2008. Individual tree models for the crown biomass distribution of Scots pine, Norway spruce and birch in Finland. For Ecol Manage. 255:455–467. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.035
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tapio 2007. Hyvän metsänhoidon suositukset (Finnish forest management practice recommendations). Metsätalouden kehittämiskeskus Tapio. Metsäkustannus. (In Finnish)
   Google Scholar
• Turunen T. 2011. Energiapuun hinnat (Energy wood prices). (In Finnish) Accessed Feb. 1, 2013 http://www.biomas.fi/upload/Energiapuun%20hinnat%20marraskuu%202011.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Wall A. 2012. Risk analysis of effects of whole-tree harvesting on site productivity. For Ecol Manage. 282:175–184. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2012.07.012
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ylitalo E. 2010. Energia (Energy). Metsätilastollinen vuosikirja 2010 - Skogsstatistisk årsbok - Finnish Statistical Yearbook of Forestry. SVT Maa-, metsä- ja kalatalous. Metsäntutkimuslaitos, 472 p.
   Google Scholar
• Ylitalo E. 2012. Energia (Energy). Metsätilastollinen vuosikirja 2012 - Skogsstatistisk årsbok - Finnish Statistical Yearbook of Forestry. SVT Maa-, metsä- ja kalatalous. Metsäntutkimuslaitos, 472 p.
   Google Scholar