Niemistö, Pentti

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• forest management
• wood production
• birch quality
• undergrowthspruce
• birch growth
• silver birch (petula bendula)
• downy birch (betula pubescens)
• thinning model
• logging road

Research Projects

Current

• Effect of forest management on wood properties
  
• Effects of alternative stand management on wood production and profitability
  
• Forest growth in a changing environment
  
• Intensive production of woody biomass
  
• Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems
  
• Uneven-aged forest management
  

Former

• Action D1 Tree vitality and adaptation 2009 - 2011
  
• Coordination of research program "Alternatives of silvicultural practices in forest management and their effects on forest production"
  
• Decidious trees as energy wood: growing, harvesting and quality
  
• Decision support system for stand management
  
• Effect of structural complexity on growth and yield of forest stands
  
• Effects of forestry on Water courses
  
• Growing and procurement of high-value timber in Central Finland
  
• Influence of ruting in strip road on the growth of trees
  
• Influences of decreasing forest resource utilization and forest improvement in Ostrobothnia
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Models for simulation and decision support based on ecological processes in forest regeneration
  
• New solutions for treatment and harvesting of peatland forest
  
• Permanent growth and yield sample plots - assesments and data management
  
• Silviculture of hardwoods
  
• The effect of treatments of thinning stands on the growth, yield and economic results
  
• The effects of forest biomass removal on the development of young stands
  
• The natural regeneration of the forest
  
• The prediction of the tree growth and quality in Betula pendula and Betula pubescens stands
  
• Thinnings in forest management
  

Contacts

Keywords: birch, forest management, production, quality, regional forest resources, silviculture, yield