How is soil carbon stock in old-growth boreal forests affected by management?

• Main Author: Dahl, Jenny
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English; Swedish
• Published: SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management 2018
• Subjects: forest management; unmanaged forest; harvesting effects; mineral soil; skogsskötsel; obrukad skog; avverkningseffekt; mineraljord; Kol’; Skogar; Northern Sweden; Norrbotten
• Online Access: https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14020/

Boreal forests are able to store large amounts of carbon in soil and biomass, and forest management is considered an important strategy for mitigating climate change. Sweden has a long history of forest management that have intensified during the last century, but there are still old-growth forests...