What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review
Background: Forest harvesting changes forest habitat and impacts forest dependent species. Uneven-aged management is often considered better for biodiversity than even-aged management, but there is an ongoing discourse over the benefits and disadvantages of different silvicultural systems. This syst...
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Clearcut Selection system Continuous cover forestry Species richness Abundance RETENTION FORESTRY CONSERVATION METAANALYSIS COMMUNITIES COLEOPTERA DIVERSITY SELECTION BEETLES 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology 4112 Forestry Savilaakso, Sini Johansson, Anna Hakkila, Matti Uusitalo, Anne Sandgren, Terhi Monkkonen, Mikko Puttonen, Pasi What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review |
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Background: Forest harvesting changes forest habitat and impacts forest dependent species. Uneven-aged management is often considered better for biodiversity than even-aged management, but there is an ongoing discourse over the benefits and disadvantages of different silvicultural systems. This systematic review contributes to the public discussion and provides evidence for policy making by synthesising current evidence on impacts of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on biodiversity in boreal forests of Fennoscandia and European Russia. In this review even-aged and uneven-aged forest management are compared directly to each other as well as to natural forest to provide a broad basis for public discussion. Methods: Both peer-reviewed and grey literature were searched in bibliographical databases, organizational webpages and internet search engines in English, Finnish, Swedish and Russian. Articles were screened for relevance by their title/abstract and again by full text. The inclusion of studies was assessed against pre-defined criteria published in an a priori protocol. A narrative synthesis and meta-analysis were conducted to describe the evidence base and to compare species richness and abundance between differently managed forests. The influence of habitat specialism, taxon, years since harvesting, deadwood availability and harvesting intensity on species richness and abundance were also tested. Review findings: Searching identified 43,621 articles of which 137 articles with 854 studies had independent data and were included in the narrative synthesis. Of those, 547 studies were included in the meta-analysis. The most studied taxa were arthropods, vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens. Results showed that forests with less disturbance (uneven-aged and mature even-aged) host more forest dependent species than young even-aged forests (<80 years old) although the difference was only marginally significant for mature even-aged forests (> 80 years old). Uneven-aged forest had similar ... |
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What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review |
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What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review |
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What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review |
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What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review |
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What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review |
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10.1186/s13750-020-00215-7 We are grateful for Samantha Cheng, Asko Poikela and Antti Savilaakso for their technical support during the review process, and Markus Strandstr?m for technical support and for the details considering MONTA project. We thank the researchers who provided articles as a result of the call of data: Jari Haimi, Sauli Valkonen, Alexander Kryshen and Markku Paananen, and the researchers who provided data or information when they were contacted: Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa, Ekaterina Shorokhova, Matti Koivula and Riikka Elo. We thank Matti Nummelin for his helpful comments on the manuscript. We also thank Andrew Pullin, Bege Jonsson and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism that resulted in much improved review. This review and the former protocol were partially funded by the Finnish Forest Foundation, grant number 2018070301. The Foundation has not participated in the development of this review in any way. Savilaakso , S , Johansson , A , Hakkila , M , Uusitalo , A , Sandgren , T , Monkkonen , M & Puttonen , P 2021 , ' What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review ' , Environmental Evidence , vol. 10 , no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-020-00215-7 ORCID: /0000-0002-6190-1537/work/89581292 ORCID: /0000-0002-7377-8134/work/89581659 a0035e97-0e52-47c0-8ac5-f4c58b45c5ba http://hdl.handle.net/10138/327045 000605620300001 |
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/327045 2024-01-07T09:43:09+01:00 What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review Savilaakso, Sini Johansson, Anna Hakkila, Matti Uusitalo, Anne Sandgren, Terhi Monkkonen, Mikko Puttonen, Pasi Department of Forest Sciences Helsinki University Library 2021-02-25T09:34:03Z 38 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/327045 eng eng BioMed Central 10.1186/s13750-020-00215-7 We are grateful for Samantha Cheng, Asko Poikela and Antti Savilaakso for their technical support during the review process, and Markus Strandstr?m for technical support and for the details considering MONTA project. We thank the researchers who provided articles as a result of the call of data: Jari Haimi, Sauli Valkonen, Alexander Kryshen and Markku Paananen, and the researchers who provided data or information when they were contacted: Ilkka Vanha-Majamaa, Ekaterina Shorokhova, Matti Koivula and Riikka Elo. We thank Matti Nummelin for his helpful comments on the manuscript. We also thank Andrew Pullin, Bege Jonsson and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism that resulted in much improved review. This review and the former protocol were partially funded by the Finnish Forest Foundation, grant number 2018070301. The Foundation has not participated in the development of this review in any way. Savilaakso , S , Johansson , A , Hakkila , M , Uusitalo , A , Sandgren , T , Monkkonen , M & Puttonen , P 2021 , ' What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia? A systematic review ' , Environmental Evidence , vol. 10 , no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-020-00215-7 ORCID: /0000-0002-6190-1537/work/89581292 ORCID: /0000-0002-7377-8134/work/89581659 a0035e97-0e52-47c0-8ac5-f4c58b45c5ba http://hdl.handle.net/10138/327045 000605620300001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Clearcut Selection system Continuous cover forestry Species richness Abundance RETENTION FORESTRY CONSERVATION METAANALYSIS COMMUNITIES COLEOPTERA DIVERSITY SELECTION BEETLES 1181 Ecology evolutionary biology 4112 Forestry Review Article publishedVersion 2021 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:13:17Z Background: Forest harvesting changes forest habitat and impacts forest dependent species. Uneven-aged management is often considered better for biodiversity than even-aged management, but there is an ongoing discourse over the benefits and disadvantages of different silvicultural systems. This systematic review contributes to the public discussion and provides evidence for policy making by synthesising current evidence on impacts of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on biodiversity in boreal forests of Fennoscandia and European Russia. In this review even-aged and uneven-aged forest management are compared directly to each other as well as to natural forest to provide a broad basis for public discussion. Methods: Both peer-reviewed and grey literature were searched in bibliographical databases, organizational webpages and internet search engines in English, Finnish, Swedish and Russian. Articles were screened for relevance by their title/abstract and again by full text. The inclusion of studies was assessed against pre-defined criteria published in an a priori protocol. A narrative synthesis and meta-analysis were conducted to describe the evidence base and to compare species richness and abundance between differently managed forests. The influence of habitat specialism, taxon, years since harvesting, deadwood availability and harvesting intensity on species richness and abundance were also tested. Review findings: Searching identified 43,621 articles of which 137 articles with 854 studies had independent data and were included in the narrative synthesis. Of those, 547 studies were included in the meta-analysis. The most studied taxa were arthropods, vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens. Results showed that forests with less disturbance (uneven-aged and mature even-aged) host more forest dependent species than young even-aged forests (<80 years old) although the difference was only marginally significant for mature even-aged forests (> 80 years old). Uneven-aged forest had similar ... Review Fennoscandia HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Deadwood ENVELOPE(-117.453,-117.453,56.733,56.733) Environmental Evidence 10 1 |