Jylhä, Paula

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher, Customer Manager, Kannus

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Expertise

• integrated harvesting
• wood procurement logistics
• weed management

Research Projects

Current

• Intensive production of woody biomass
  
• Predicting the transformation of value chains based on forest resources in Southern and Central Ostobothnia
  
• Smart forest biomass supply chains from forest to consumer including advanced logistic and quality control and fuel upgrading options
  

Former

• Afforestation of cut-away peatlands and peat fields
  
• Bundling undelimbed tree sections in the early thinnig of Scots pine
  
• Enhancement of work opportunities with forest enterprises
  
• Forest regeneration and afforestation on peatlands
  
• Forestry and alternative thinning methods
  
• Influences of decreasing forest resource utilization and forest improvement in Ostrobothnia
  
• Logistical models and applications in wood procurement
  
• Methods, models and goals of multi-objective forest planning
  
• New logistic and technology innovations in wood procurement of forest industry
  
• Nitrogen tolerance of forest ecosystems
  
• Recovery of logging residue for energy as part of forest management
  
• Regeneration of peatland forests
  
• Technology and logistics of industrial and energy wood in Finland and in the EU.
  
• Wood for energy -a contribution to the development of sustainable forest management
  
• Yield effects and profitability of integrated energy and round wood harvesting in thinnings
  

Contacts

Keywords: bioenergy, biomass, forest technology, fuelwood, pulpwood, thinning, weed control