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High boreal forest multifunctionality requires continuous cover forestry as a dominant management (2021)

Eyvindson, Kyle; Duflot, Rémi; Triviño, Mária; Blattert, Clemens; Potterf, Mária; Mönkkönen, Mikko (2021). High boreal forest multifunctionality requires continuous cover forestry as a dominant management. Land Use Policy, 100, 104918. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104918

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

Eyvindson, Kyle

Duflot, Rémi

Triviño De la Cal, Maria

Blattert, Clemens

Potterf, Maria

Mönkkönen, Mikko

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Eyvindson, Kyle; Duflot, Rémi; Triviño, Mária; Blattert, Clemens; Potterf, Mária; Mönkkönen, Mikko

Lehti tai sarja: Land Use Policy

ISSN: 0264-8377

eISSN: 1873-5754

Julkaisuvuosi: 2021

Volyymi: 100

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 104918

Kustantaja: Elsevier

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104918

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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/71238

Tiivistelmä

Intensive extraction of forest resources lowers biodiversity and endangers the functioning of forest ecosystems. As such, alternative management regimes have emerged, aspiring to promote forest biodiversity and nature protection in managed forests. Among them, continuous cover forestry, (i.e. selective logging), has received considerable attention and is being promoted by some researchers and NGOs. Yet, the full consequences of banning clear-cuts (i.e. rotation forestry) and replacing it entirely with continuous cover forest remains uncertain. We explore how restricting forest management alternatives (either rotation forestry or continuous cover forestry) will affect landscape-scale forest multifunctionality at a range of harvesting levels. We evaluate multifunctionality as a combination of recreational ecosystem services, climate change mitigation, habitat availability for vertebrates, and red-listed dead wood dependent species. Our results show that restricting forest management alternatives have a negative impact on forest multifunctionality at all harvesting levels when compared to the case with no restrictions. Using only continuous cover forestry management alternatives resulted in higher multifunctionality than the case when only rotation forestry management alternatives were used. We also show that maximizing multifunctionality using all management alternatives led to high proportion of continuous cover forestry over the landscape. We conclude that banning clear-cuts does not promote forest biodiversity and multifunctionality at the landscape scale, especially if there is a requirement for high economic benefits from the forest. However, we recommend that continuous cover forestry should be considered as a primary management alternative, with selective application of rotation forestry wisely planned at the landscape scale.

YSO-asiasanat: luonnon monimuotoisuus; ilmastonmuutokset; ekosysteemipalvelut; metsänhoito; optimointi

Vapaat asiasanat: biodiversity; climate change mitigation; continuous cover forestry; ecosystem services; forest planning; optimization

Tieteenalat:

1181 Ekologia, evoluutiobiologia (118 Biotieteet)