Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas
Aspen is a keystone species in boreal forests. The future of aspen in many conservation areas is threatened by ungulate browsing. Our aim was to study the effect of browsing on aspen regeneration and population structure in conservation areas in Central Finland, and the effect of surrounding landsca...
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/68736 2024-05-19T07:27:52+00:00 Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas Komonen, Atte Tuominen, Laura Purhonen, Jenna Halme, Panu 2020 application/pdf fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202004282940 eng eng Elsevier Forest Ecology and Management 0378-1127 457 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117724 Komonen, A., Tuominen, L., Purhonen, J., & Halme, P. (2020). Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas. Forest Ecology and Management , 457 , Article 117724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117724 CONVID_34005355 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202004282940 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202004282940 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Alces alces biodiversity boreal forest disturbance landscape Populus tremula puulajit hirvi lahopuut maisema biodiversiteetti haapa metsät metsiensuojelu boreaalinen vyöhyke article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 acceptedVersion A1 2020 ftjyvaeskylaenun 2024-04-23T23:38:28Z Aspen is a keystone species in boreal forests. The future of aspen in many conservation areas is threatened by ungulate browsing. Our aim was to study the effect of browsing on aspen regeneration and population structure in conservation areas in Central Finland, and the effect of surrounding landscape structure on browsing. Aspen density varied greatly among and within conservation areas. In about half of the conservation areas, middle-sized aspens were scarce or missing, which indicates heavy browsing in the recent past. In addition, the number of dead, large aspens in advanced decay stages were rare. Browsing pressure varied greatly among the areas, but on average, a bit more than half of the living aspens had been browsed. Landscape structure influenced browsing so that increasing proportion of farmland within 1 km and 3 km of the conservation areas decreased browsing pressure. The poor recruitment of aspen in many conservation areas jeopardizes the accumulation of large living and dead aspens. This means that many aspen-associated threatened species are in the risk of local extinction, unless aspen recruitment is enhanced by management. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Hirvi JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Forest Ecology and Management 457 117724 |
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Aspen is a keystone species in boreal forests. The future of aspen in many conservation areas is threatened by ungulate browsing. Our aim was to study the effect of browsing on aspen regeneration and population structure in conservation areas in Central Finland, and the effect of surrounding landscape structure on browsing. Aspen density varied greatly among and within conservation areas. In about half of the conservation areas, middle-sized aspens were scarce or missing, which indicates heavy browsing in the recent past. In addition, the number of dead, large aspens in advanced decay stages were rare. Browsing pressure varied greatly among the areas, but on average, a bit more than half of the living aspens had been browsed. Landscape structure influenced browsing so that increasing proportion of farmland within 1 km and 3 km of the conservation areas decreased browsing pressure. The poor recruitment of aspen in many conservation areas jeopardizes the accumulation of large living and dead aspens. This means that many aspen-associated threatened species are in the risk of local extinction, unless aspen recruitment is enhanced by management. peerReviewed |
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Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas |
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Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas |
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Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas |
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Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas |
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Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas |
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landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas |
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Forest Ecology and Management 0378-1127 457 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117724 Komonen, A., Tuominen, L., Purhonen, J., & Halme, P. (2020). Landscape structure influences browsing on a keystone tree species in conservation areas. Forest Ecology and Management , 457 , Article 117724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117724 CONVID_34005355 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202004282940 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202004282940 |
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