From logging frontier towards sustainable forest management: experiences from boreal regions of North-West Russia and North Sweden

Nordberg, Mats; Angelstam, Per; Elbakidze, Marine; Axelsson, Robert

doi:10.1080/02827581.2013.838993

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“…Moreover, cattle grazing could help in maintaining habitat openness (Öckinger et al ., ; Minckley, ). With regard to biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with forest habitats, most forest stands in Scandinavia and Finland are managed for commercial purposes and their value for wildlife is generally low (Nordberg et al ., ). Of course, the logging regimes suggested in this paper should not be targeted to forest reserves and valuable forest biotopes and the management recommendations developed here are not relevant to forest interior specialist taxa.…”

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Logging in boreal field‐forest ecotones promotes flower‐visiting insect diversity and modifies insect community composition

Korpela

Hyvönen

Kuussaari

2014

Insect Conserv Diversity

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1. Mitigation tools aimed at counteracting the loss of farmland insect diversity and associated ecosystem services are usually conducted on cultivated fields. Possibilities of managing field-forest ecotones for biodiversity have been rarely discussed, despite their importance for flower-visiting insects.2. The effectiveness of logging in enhancing three aspects of insect diversity (bumblebee abundance, total species richness, and habitat specialist butterfly abundance) and changes in insect community composition were studied in a three-year field experiment. The study included 15 field-forest ecotones, each with a 50 m long and 25 m wide treated area and a corresponding control. At forest edge, a 5 m wide strip was clear-cut and behind this strip, a 20 m wide belt was thinned to a basal area of 8 m 2 ha À1 .3. Logging simultaneously promoted all three aspects of insect diversity. Changes were more apparent at clear-cut edge than in the thinned interior. Community composition changed via increased abundance of open habitat species, especially butterflies. 4. Logging promoted warm microclimates and flower availability at clear-cut edges. All three aspects of insect diversity showed a positive response to flower coverage, which in turn was negatively correlated with the amount of logging residue.5. Creating open field-forest ecotones is beneficial for flower-visiting insects and open habitat species in particular. This approach is expected to be most beneficial at sunny forest edges and sites which become overgrown slowly. In addition, we suggest logging residue to be removed when aiming to promote flower-visitors.

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Logging in boreal field‐forest ecotones promotes flower‐visiting insect diversity and modifies insect community composition

Korpela

Hyvönen

Kuussaari

2014

Insect Conserv Diversity

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“…), as well as approaches to forest management linked to different forest histories and ideologies (Nordberg et al. , Naumov et al. ).…”

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“…Sweden and Russia have always been independent countries, but with different governance traditions (Hauge et al 1992), as well as approaches to forest management linked to different forest histories and ideologies (Nordberg et al 2013, Naumov et al 2016. While Sweden has developed maximum sustained yield principles, Russia is still by and large focusing on wood mining (Knize andRomanyuk 2006, Elbakidze et al 2013).…”

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Wood production and biodiversity conservation are rival forestry objectives in Europe's Baltic Sea Region

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The policy term green infrastructure highlights the need to maintain functional ecosystems as a foundation for sustainable societies. Because forests are the main natural ecosystems in Europe, it is crucial to understand the extent to which forest landscape management delivers functional green infrastructures. We used the steep west–east gradient in forest landscape history, land ownership, and political culture within northern Europe's Baltic Sea Region to assess regional profiles of benefits delivered by forest landscapes. The aim was to support policy‐makers and planners with evidence‐based knowledge about the current conditions for effective wood production and biodiversity conservation. We developed and modeled four regional‐level indicators for sustained yield wood production and four for biodiversity conservation using public spatial data. The western case study regions in Sweden and Latvia had high forest management intensity with balanced forest losses and gains which was spatially correlated, thus indicating an even stand age class distribution at the local scale and therefore long‐term sustained yields. In contrast, the eastern case study regions in Belarus and Russia showed spatial segregation of areas with forest losses and gains. Regarding biodiversity conservation indicators, the west–east gradient was reversed. In the Russian, Belarusian, and Latvian case study regions, tree species composition was more natural than in Sweden, and the size of contiguous areas without forest loss was larger. In all four case study regions, 54–85% of the total land base consisted of forest cover, which is above critical fragmentation thresholds for forest landscape fragmentation. The results show that green infrastructures for wood production and biodiversity conservation are inversely related among the four case study regions, and thus rival. While restoration for biodiversity conservation is needed in the west, intensified use of wood and biomass is possible in the east. However, a cautious approach should be applied because intensification of wood production threatens biodiversity. We discuss the barriers and bridges for spatial planning in countries with different types of land ownership and political cultures and stress the need for a landscape approach based on evidence‐based collaborative learning processes that include both different academic disciplines and stakeholders that represent different sectors and levels of governance.

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“…Recently, increasing wood production according to the so-called Fennoscandian model of intensive forest management (Karjalainen et al 2009;Karvinen et al 2006Karvinen et al , 2011 is being discussed in Russia. The concept of adaptive management for maximizing resilience and the sustainability of forests under climate change has been recommended as an alternative (Karpachevsky 2007;Nordberg et al, 2013;Chapin et al 2007;Naumov et al 2017). This concept suggests further development of selection felling practices and preserving key biotopes and elements in parallel with the research and monitoring of the results of their practical implementation.…”

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Variable retention forestry in European boreal forests in Russia

2019

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We explored whether, and to what extent, variable retention (VR) forestry has been applied in European boreal forests in northwestern Russia. Our survey revealed VR since 1910. Between 1910 and the 1960s, the statistics showing how much was retained are largely missing. However, for example, in the 1950s, on a large scale in the Republic of Karelia, up to 200-ha-sized harvesting areas, 18-33%, were retention patches with a mean growing stock of 30-40 m 3 ha −1 . In the fellings defined as "incomplete clear fellings," which were the most common final felling type at that time, 11-40% of the growing stock was left. Between the 1960s and the early 1990s, with more efficient harvesting and skidding techniques, conventional clear fellings with a much lower amount of retention were practiced. Concern about the regeneration of harvested areas gradually led to smaller (maximum 50 ha) harvesting areas and the increase of silvicultural activities. Until now, to ensure natural regeneration, patches of understory and 20-25 seed trees (i.e., ca. 15-25 m 3 ) per ha have been left permanently in harvesting areas. Landscape-scale retention for protecting ecosystem functions and biodiversity was legislated in 1978 by preserving key biotopes up to 1000 ha in size. Since 2001, promoted by forest certification, the key biotopes, such as paludified forest patches, buffers around water bodies, and habitats of red-listed species, have also been retained in harvesting areas, together with a dispersed retention of different elements. Quantitative estimates of the amount of key biotopes are largely missing. However, estimates of 1-13% in harvesting areas and 23% in whole managed landscapes have been given. VR applied during the last century has emulated natural disturbances and created diverse uneven-aged forest structures with high amounts of diverse coarse woody debris. We conclude that an analysis of past and current retention practices is essential for estimating the global role of Russian forestry. Further decisions on the general direction of Russian forestry and, specifically, retention practices are important to address the global challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change.

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From logging frontier towards sustainable forest management: experiences from boreal regions of North-West Russia and North Sweden

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Logging in boreal field‐forest ecotones promotes flower‐visiting insect diversity and modifies insect community composition

Logging in boreal field‐forest ecotones promotes flower‐visiting insect diversity and modifies insect community composition

Wood production and biodiversity conservation are rival forestry objectives in Europe's Baltic Sea Region

Variable retention forestry in European boreal forests in Russia

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