Experimental evidence on biodiversity impacts of variable retention forestry, prescribed burning, and deadwood manipulation in Fennoscandia

• Published in: Ecological Processes
• Main Authors: Koivula, Matti, Vanha-Majamaa, Ilkka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Ecological Modeling; Ecology; Deadwood; Norway; Snag; Stump; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13717-019-0209-1; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13717-019-0209-1.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13717-019-0209-1/fulltext.html

Abstract Intensive forest management has been applied in most Fennoscandian forests for a period of almost one felling rotation. This paradigm has produced even-aged and even-structured forests of different successional stages that cover about 90% of forest land. At the same time, wildfires have bee...