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

• Main Authors: Koivula, Matti, Vanha-Majamaa, Ilkka
• Other Authors: orcid:0000-0001-6415-4904, 4100110710, Luonnonvarakeskus
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: beetles; forest management; invertebrates; Polypore; resilience; Resistance; Restoration; Saproxylic; Soil fauna; Understory vegetation; Deadwood; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024/546358

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 been nearly...