Deadwood enrichment in Fennoscandian spruce forests – New results from the EVO experiment
In Fennoscandian forests, evidence on the effects of variable tree retention, prescribed burning and deadwood creation on deadwood quantity and quality is still scarce. We studied the effects of prescribed burning, tree retention and downed wood creation on the deadwood profile in managed boreal Nor...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/576607 2024-06-23T07:52:44+00:00 Deadwood enrichment in Fennoscandian spruce forests – New results from the EVO experiment Shorohova, Ekaterina Lindberg, Henrik Kuuluvainen, Timo Vanha-Majamaa, Ilkka Department of Forest Sciences Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) Boreal forest dynamics and biodiversity research group Forest Ecology and Management 2024-06-06T04:37:04Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/576607 eng eng Elsevier Scientific Publ. Co 10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122013 H\u00E4me University of Applied Sciences, Mets\u00E4hallitus (Finnish Forest Service), UPM-Kymmene Ltd. and the City of H\u00E4meenlinna provided the land for the study and implemented the logging treatments. A lot of people participated in the burning activities, which were organized by Timo Heikkil\u00E4 (\u2020) from the Ministry of the Interior, as well as in fieldwork. Vladislava Girfanova and Maria Shorohova helped with the data processing and modelling. At the initial stage, funding was available from several national foundations, Fire Protection Fund, the Finnish Academy SUNARE project FIRE, and EU projects SPREAD and EUFIRELAB. The data processing was made in the frames of the EU CBC project METAFor. Writing process was completed as a part of the Kone Foundation project RETROFOR and the EU LIFE project Priodiversity. Shorohova , E , Lindberg , H , Kuuluvainen , T & Vanha-Majamaa , I 2024 , ' Deadwood enrichment in Fennoscandian spruce forests – New results from the EVO experiment ' , Forest Ecology and Management , vol. 564 , 122013 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122013 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/576607 433b1c65-d11b-4696-8e8f-c03c9eb03551 85194253613 cc_by info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess openAccess Coarse woody debris Decay Decomposition Diversity Fire Habitat management Nature-based forest management Rehabilitation Restoration Variable retention Ecology evolutionary biology Forestry Article publishedVersion 2024 ftunivhelsihelda 2024-06-11T14:22:15Z In Fennoscandian forests, evidence on the effects of variable tree retention, prescribed burning and deadwood creation on deadwood quantity and quality is still scarce. We studied the effects of prescribed burning, tree retention and downed wood creation on the deadwood profile in managed boreal Norway spruce forest stands over a 16-year period. The stand scale treatments of the experiment included cuttings with a constant volume of dispersed retention trees (50 m3 ha-1, ca. 200 trees per ha), and three levels of downed deadwood creation (5, 30 and 60 m3 ha-1), in both upland and paludified biotopes of Myrtillus site type, with or without prescribed burning, with three replicates each. After 16 years since the treatments, the diverse deadwood profiles with varying distribution by decay class were formed. The volume of deadwood varied from 9 to 107 m3 ha-1 with a mean of 65 m3 ha-1. The index of deadwood diversity was positively influenced by prescribed burning and negatively influenced by deadwood creation. The volume of all deadwood and coarse woody debris (CWD), volume and number of logs, as well as dead to live volume ratio increased after prescribed burning and with the level of deadwood creation. The positive effect of deadwood creation on the total CWD volume was higher in the upland biotopes than in the paludified ones. The highest amounts of all deadwood, CWD and logs were recorded in the upland biotopes after prescribed burning without deadwood creation. Our findings highlight the impact of tree retention with prescribed burning and deadwood creation in diversifying deadwood profile and maintaining deadwood continuum for decades. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandian HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Deadwood ENVELOPE(-117.453,-117.453,56.733,56.733) Norway |
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In Fennoscandian forests, evidence on the effects of variable tree retention, prescribed burning and deadwood creation on deadwood quantity and quality is still scarce. We studied the effects of prescribed burning, tree retention and downed wood creation on the deadwood profile in managed boreal Norway spruce forest stands over a 16-year period. The stand scale treatments of the experiment included cuttings with a constant volume of dispersed retention trees (50 m3 ha-1, ca. 200 trees per ha), and three levels of downed deadwood creation (5, 30 and 60 m3 ha-1), in both upland and paludified biotopes of Myrtillus site type, with or without prescribed burning, with three replicates each. After 16 years since the treatments, the diverse deadwood profiles with varying distribution by decay class were formed. The volume of deadwood varied from 9 to 107 m3 ha-1 with a mean of 65 m3 ha-1. The index of deadwood diversity was positively influenced by prescribed burning and negatively influenced by deadwood creation. The volume of all deadwood and coarse woody debris (CWD), volume and number of logs, as well as dead to live volume ratio increased after prescribed burning and with the level of deadwood creation. The positive effect of deadwood creation on the total CWD volume was higher in the upland biotopes than in the paludified ones. The highest amounts of all deadwood, CWD and logs were recorded in the upland biotopes after prescribed burning without deadwood creation. Our findings highlight the impact of tree retention with prescribed burning and deadwood creation in diversifying deadwood profile and maintaining deadwood continuum for decades. Peer reviewed |
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Deadwood enrichment in Fennoscandian spruce forests – New results from the EVO experiment |
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Deadwood enrichment in Fennoscandian spruce forests – New results from the EVO experiment |
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10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122013 H\u00E4me University of Applied Sciences, Mets\u00E4hallitus (Finnish Forest Service), UPM-Kymmene Ltd. and the City of H\u00E4meenlinna provided the land for the study and implemented the logging treatments. A lot of people participated in the burning activities, which were organized by Timo Heikkil\u00E4 (\u2020) from the Ministry of the Interior, as well as in fieldwork. Vladislava Girfanova and Maria Shorohova helped with the data processing and modelling. At the initial stage, funding was available from several national foundations, Fire Protection Fund, the Finnish Academy SUNARE project FIRE, and EU projects SPREAD and EUFIRELAB. The data processing was made in the frames of the EU CBC project METAFor. Writing process was completed as a part of the Kone Foundation project RETROFOR and the EU LIFE project Priodiversity. Shorohova , E , Lindberg , H , Kuuluvainen , T & Vanha-Majamaa , I 2024 , ' Deadwood enrichment in Fennoscandian spruce forests – New results from the EVO experiment ' , Forest Ecology and Management , vol. 564 , 122013 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122013 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/576607 433b1c65-d11b-4696-8e8f-c03c9eb03551 85194253613 |
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