Saksa, Timo

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Senior Researcher

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Expertise

• forest regeneration
• management of young stands

Research Projects

Current

• Cost efficiency and quality management in silviculture
  
• Development and implementation of mechanized silviculture
  
• Future forests and forest management - management, knowledge and technology transfer
  
• Quality and efficienccy
  
• Uneven-aged forest management
  

Former

• Artificial regeneration
  
• Aspen (Populus tremula) in Finnish forestry
  
• Developing methods for afforestation of (former agricultural) fields
  
• Effect of structural complexity on growth and yield of forest stands
  
• Feasibility, productivity and profitability of forest management methods based on selection and gap treatments
  
• Field afforestation in EU-Finland
  
• Improvement of management of young stands
  
• Management of uneven-aged Norway spruce and Scots pine stands
  
• Methods for monitoring forest regeneration results
  
• Modelling of stand and tree development at the early stage and the effects of different young stand treatments on timber production
  
• Models for simulation and decision support based on ecological processes in forest regeneration
  
• Monitoring system for forest regeneration quality
  
• Nursery production and planting chain
  
• Quality chain of forest regeneration from seed production to early tending
  
• Quality control in forest regeneration in private forests
  
• Quality control methods for silvicultural operations
  
• Recovery of logging residue for energy as part of forest management
  
• Silviculture of hardwoods
  
• Tending of pine sapling stand
  
• The ecological base and predictability of natural seedling establishment
  
• The effects of forest biomass removal on the development of young stands
  

Contacts

Keywords: forest regeneration, regeneration, woodland regeneration, young stand management