Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space
In this paper we describe how forest management practices in Fennoscandian countries, namely Sweden and Finland, expose streams to multiple stressors over space and time. In this region, forestry includes several different management actions and we explore how these may successively disturb the same...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-179071 2023-10-09T21:51:26+02:00 Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space Kuglerova, Lenka Hasselquist, Eliza Maher Sponseller, Ryan Allen Muotka, Timo Hallsby, Goran Laudon, Hjalmar 2021 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179071 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143521 eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap Science of the Total Environment, 0048-9697, 2021, 756, orcid:0000-0002-5758-2705 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179071 doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143521 PMID 33243494 ISI:000603487500014 Scopus 2-s2.0-85096599865 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Best management practice Boreal forest Forestry Headwaters Stream networks Environmental Sciences Miljövetenskap Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143521 2023-09-22T13:57:32Z In this paper we describe how forest management practices in Fennoscandian countries, namely Sweden and Finland, expose streams to multiple stressors over space and time. In this region, forestry includes several different management actions and we explore how these may successively disturb the same location over 60-100 year long rotation periods. Of these actions, final harvest and associated road construction, soil scarification, and/or ditch network maintenance are the most obvious sources of stressors to aquatic ecosystems. Yet, more subtle actions such as planting, thinning of competing saplings and trees, and removing logging residues also represent disturbances around waterways in these landscapes. We review literature about how these different forestry practices may introduce a combination of physicochemical stressors, including hydrological change, increased sediment transport, altered thermal and light regimes, and water quality deterioration. We further elaborate on how the single stressors may combine and interact and we consequently hypothesise how these interactions may affect aquatic communities and processes. Because production forestry is practiced on a large area in both countries, the various stressors appear multiple times during the rotation cycles and potentially affect the majority of the stream network length within most catchments. We concluded that forestry practices have traditionally not been the focus of multiple stressor studies and should be investigated further in both observational and experimental fashion. Stressors accumulate across time and space in forestry dominated landscapes, and may interact in unpredictable ways, limiting our current understanding of what forested stream networks are exposed to and how we can design and apply best management practices. Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia Fennoscandian Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Science of The Total Environment 756 143521 |
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In this paper we describe how forest management practices in Fennoscandian countries, namely Sweden and Finland, expose streams to multiple stressors over space and time. In this region, forestry includes several different management actions and we explore how these may successively disturb the same location over 60-100 year long rotation periods. Of these actions, final harvest and associated road construction, soil scarification, and/or ditch network maintenance are the most obvious sources of stressors to aquatic ecosystems. Yet, more subtle actions such as planting, thinning of competing saplings and trees, and removing logging residues also represent disturbances around waterways in these landscapes. We review literature about how these different forestry practices may introduce a combination of physicochemical stressors, including hydrological change, increased sediment transport, altered thermal and light regimes, and water quality deterioration. We further elaborate on how the single stressors may combine and interact and we consequently hypothesise how these interactions may affect aquatic communities and processes. Because production forestry is practiced on a large area in both countries, the various stressors appear multiple times during the rotation cycles and potentially affect the majority of the stream network length within most catchments. We concluded that forestry practices have traditionally not been the focus of multiple stressor studies and should be investigated further in both observational and experimental fashion. Stressors accumulate across time and space in forestry dominated landscapes, and may interact in unpredictable ways, limiting our current understanding of what forested stream networks are exposed to and how we can design and apply best management practices. |
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Kuglerova, Lenka Hasselquist, Eliza Maher Sponseller, Ryan Allen Muotka, Timo Hallsby, Goran Laudon, Hjalmar |
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Kuglerova, Lenka Hasselquist, Eliza Maher Sponseller, Ryan Allen Muotka, Timo Hallsby, Goran Laudon, Hjalmar |
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Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space |
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Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space |
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Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space |
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Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space |
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Multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of Fennoscandia : The effects in time and space |
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multiple stressors in small streams in the forestry context of fennoscandia : the effects in time and space |
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap |
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