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Lena Gustafsson, Department of Ecology, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
InForMAr Kick off workshop, December 7-8, 2017
Research and practice on integrated forest management in north Europe
Integrated forest management,
retention forestry, variable retention,
structure retention, green-tree
retention, retention approaches,
retention harvest
Gustafsson et al. 2012
PRACTICE IN NORTH
EUROPE
Sweden, Finland, Norway
LegislationRetention required on all
forestland
CertificationHigher demands than law
FSC/PEFC cover ~70% in
Sweden
PEFC cover ~100% in Finland,
Norway
Level
RESEARCH
Lindenmayer et al. 2012 Conservation Letters
Large research base
• Several hundred
studies globally
• >110 in north
Europe
3 meta-analyses
Efficient in maintaining forest
species compared to
clearcutting. Fedrowitz et al.
2014. J Appl Ecol
Promotes insects and birds
adapted to disturbed
habitats. Rosenvald &
Lohmus. 2008. Forest Ecol &
Manage 255: 1-15
Preserves a degree of
species richness equivalent
to that of primary forests, at
least at the stand level. Mori
& Kitogawa. 2014. Biol Cons:
175: 65-73
Retention experiments
Modified from Gustafsson et al. 2012 BioScience
Effaråsen
EFFARÅSEN (The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk)
FIRE (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu)
Two large research programs
• Sweden
• SLU, Umeå university, The
Forestry Research Institute of
Sweden (Skogforsk)
• 2009-2016
• Formas Research Council
• 5 PhD-students
• Multidisciplinary
• Ecologists, forest planners,
landscape architects, political
scientists
• Clearcutting forestry
• Role for biodiversity. Relation to
human values and actions
• Germany
• University of Freiburg
• 2016-2020(-2025)
• German Sience Foundation
• 12 PhD-students
• Ecologists, silviculturalists, remote
sensing experts, economists, social
scientists
• Multidisciplinary
• Continuous cover forestry
• Landscape context, socio-
economic context
Thanks!
Foto: Nic Kruys/N