Are woodland key habitats biodiversity hotspots in boreal forests?
Background: The concept of Woodland Key Habitats (WKH, small-scaled presumed hotspots of biodiversity) has become an essential component of forest management in Fennoscandian and Baltic countries. There have been debates over the importance of WKHs in relation to production forests, and several rese...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/63737 2023-06-11T04:11:41+02:00 Are woodland key habitats biodiversity hotspots in boreal forests? Timonen, Jonna Gustaffson, L. Kotiaho, Janne Sakari Mönkkönen, Mikko 2011 application/pdf 1-26 fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201904262300 eng eng Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Collaboration for Environmental Evidence http:www.environmentalevidence.org/SR81.html 2047-2382 SR81 09-020 Timonen, J., Gustaffson, L., Kotiaho, J. S., & Mönkkönen, M. (2011). Are woodland key habitats biodiversity hotspots in boreal forests?. Collaboration for Environmental Evidence , 09-020 (SR81), 1-26. http:www.environmentalevidence.org/SR81.html CONVID_21336894 TUTKAID_49871 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201904262300 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201904262300 In Copyright © The Authors, 2011. openAccess http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en avanbiotoopit key habitats boreal forest metsälaki meta-analyysi article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle publishedVersion 2011 ftjyvaeskylaenun 2023-05-03T23:00:13Z Background: The concept of Woodland Key Habitats (WKH, small-scaled presumed hotspots of biodiversity) has become an essential component of forest management in Fennoscandian and Baltic countries. There have been debates over the importance of WKHs in relation to production forests, and several research projects have focused on differences in biodiversity between the two. Results have been contradictory, and thus there is a need to summarize and clarify the existing knowledge. - Objectives: Our objective was to summarize knowledge on comparisons of several biodiversity qualities between WKHs and production forests in relevant countries i.e. the countries where WKH concept has been implemented. We also summarize the knowledge on the impact of edge effects on WKHs by comparing WKHs surrounded by mature forests to WKHs surrounded by clear cuts. - Methods: We conducted searches in multiple databases and in Google Scholar after the keyword scoping. Main institutions in Sweden (Swedish Forest Agency) and Finland (Forestry Development Centre Tapio and Metsähallitus) with activities on WKHs were also consulted through personal contacts and web-page searches. Researchers with much experience of WKH research were also contacted to obtain possible unpublished literature. We conducted meta-analysis with the data extracted from the original studies that were included it the review. - Main results: Studies had been conducted in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Total number of studies found from databases was 1443. Forty studies remained after the abstract filter stages. Finally, 18 studies were included in the review, from which 16 studied the differences between WKHs and production forests, and only two studies compared WKHs surrounded by mature forests and WKHs surrounded by clear cuts. Our results suggest that WKHs seem to be hotspots of dead wood, diversity of dead wood, species richness and red-listed species. Also, we found differences between countries in these biodiversity qualities. - Conclusions: Our results suggest that ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandian JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Norway Tapio ENVELOPE(25.933,25.933,66.783,66.783) |
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Background: The concept of Woodland Key Habitats (WKH, small-scaled presumed hotspots of biodiversity) has become an essential component of forest management in Fennoscandian and Baltic countries. There have been debates over the importance of WKHs in relation to production forests, and several research projects have focused on differences in biodiversity between the two. Results have been contradictory, and thus there is a need to summarize and clarify the existing knowledge. - Objectives: Our objective was to summarize knowledge on comparisons of several biodiversity qualities between WKHs and production forests in relevant countries i.e. the countries where WKH concept has been implemented. We also summarize the knowledge on the impact of edge effects on WKHs by comparing WKHs surrounded by mature forests to WKHs surrounded by clear cuts. - Methods: We conducted searches in multiple databases and in Google Scholar after the keyword scoping. Main institutions in Sweden (Swedish Forest Agency) and Finland (Forestry Development Centre Tapio and Metsähallitus) with activities on WKHs were also consulted through personal contacts and web-page searches. Researchers with much experience of WKH research were also contacted to obtain possible unpublished literature. We conducted meta-analysis with the data extracted from the original studies that were included it the review. - Main results: Studies had been conducted in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Total number of studies found from databases was 1443. Forty studies remained after the abstract filter stages. Finally, 18 studies were included in the review, from which 16 studied the differences between WKHs and production forests, and only two studies compared WKHs surrounded by mature forests and WKHs surrounded by clear cuts. Our results suggest that WKHs seem to be hotspots of dead wood, diversity of dead wood, species richness and red-listed species. Also, we found differences between countries in these biodiversity qualities. - Conclusions: Our results suggest that ... |
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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence http:www.environmentalevidence.org/SR81.html 2047-2382 SR81 09-020 Timonen, J., Gustaffson, L., Kotiaho, J. S., & Mönkkönen, M. (2011). Are woodland key habitats biodiversity hotspots in boreal forests?. Collaboration for Environmental Evidence , 09-020 (SR81), 1-26. http:www.environmentalevidence.org/SR81.html CONVID_21336894 TUTKAID_49871 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201904262300 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201904262300 |
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