Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia

• Published in: Journal of Ecology
• Main Authors: Harper, Karen A., Macdonald, S. Ellen, Mayerhofer, Michael S., Biswas, Shekhar R., Esseen, Per-Anders, Hylander, Kristoffer, Stewart, Katherine J., Mallik, Azim U., Drapeau, Pierre, Jonsson, Bengt-Gunnar, Lesieur, Daniel, Kouki, Jari, Bergeron, Yves, Bellingham, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Boreal forest; Cut edges; Edge effects; Fire edges; Habitat fragmentation; Lakeshore edges; Meta-analysis; Randomization tests; Wetland edges; Canada; Deadwood; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/1152/; https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/1152/1/harperetal_jeco_mars2015.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12398

Although anthropogenic edges are an important consequence of timber harvesting, edges due to natural disturbances or landscape heterogeneity are also common. Forest edges have been well studied in temperate and tropical forests, but less so in less productive, disturbance-adapted boreal forests. We...