A stand-level planning tool for alternative forest management practices

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ANNUAL REPORT 2005

Core Values, Vision,     
Mission   
Strategic objectives   
Metla   
Reviews   
Forest-based      
entrepreneurship and      
forest environment      
models and databanks   
Forest ecosystems and     
social significance     
of forests   
Doctoral theses   
Events and seminars   
New projects   
Publications   
Resources   
New appointments   
Organization   

Metla has released application software that allows forest owners to produce various forest management schedules for a specified forest stand using user-defined parameters. MOTTI is based on Metla’s extensive field measurement data and it has been developed in cooperation with users. MOTTI facilitates assessing the affects of different forest management practices on stand development and the profitability of forest management. MOTTI’s growth and yield models are applicable everywhere in Finland.

Results gained from growth and yield studies can be applied by using MOTTI. The user can enter stumpage prices by tree species and timber assortments, silvicultural costs (precommercial thinnings, fertilization and ditch network maintenance) and interest rate. The program produces predicted development for the user-defined initial forest stand until the end of the rotation.

Additional information: www.metla.fi/metinfo/motti/motti-kotisivu-en.htm

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