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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2018.12.048
	Legacy effects of logging on boreal forest understorey vegetation communities in decadal time scales in northern Finland
	Muurinen L.; Oksanen J.; Vanha-Majamaa I.; Virtanen R.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0378-1127
起始页码	11
结束页码	20
卷号	436
英文摘要	We followed how forest thinning, repeated twice during a period of 93 years, altered understorey plant community composition, affected the succession of forest understorey vegetation and the accumulation of logs in the long-term. The study was carried out in northern Finland by resampling 20 permanent experimental plots, established after a wildfire in 1920. Understorey vegetation was inventoried in 1961, 1986 and 2013 with forest thinning treatments done in 1953 and 1987, using four and three different harvesting intensities, respectively. We found succession to override the effects of forest logging until the latest study period (2013). We observed negligible long-term effects of logging on understorey communities during the two mid-successional stages (1961, 1986), when the forest was 41 and 66 years old respectively. The impacts of logging on understorey vegetation were strongest in the latest successional stage (2013), the forest being at the age of 93 years. In the latest successional stage (2013) logged plots had less coarse woody debris than unlogged plots. Forest management thus influenced the key feature for forest biodiversity and potential habitats for endangered species. These findings are of major interest since the studies of long-term impacts of less intensive forest management practices are scarce. Our results suggest that in addition to possible immediate impacts, harvesting treatments have legacy effects (subtle or delayed inherited effects of forestry in the past) that influence the forest understorey vegetation community composition and the amount of coarse woody debris. This finding deserves special attention when planning of species conservation, multiple use of forests and sustainable forestry. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Coarse woody debris; Forest management; Forest thinning; Long-term change; Resampling; Vegetation succession
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Biodiversity; Conservation; Debris; Timber; Vegetation; Coarse woody debris; Forest thinnings; Long term change; Resampling; Vegetation successions; Forestry; biodiversity; boreal forest; coarse woody debris; community composition; conservation planning; decadal variation; endangered species; forest management; management practice; plant community; sampling; sustainable forestry; thinning; understory; vegetation cover; Biodiversity; Conservation; Finland; Forest Management; Forestry; Logging; Plants; Finland
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/156178
作者单位	University of Oulu, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, Oulu, 90014, Finland; Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Latokartanonkaari 9, Helsinki, 00790, Finland; Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Physiological Diversity, Permoserstraße 15, Leipzig, 04318, Germany; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Deutscher Platz 5e, Leipzig, 04013, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Muurinen L.,Oksanen J.,Vanha-Majamaa I.,et al. Legacy effects of logging on boreal forest understorey vegetation communities in decadal time scales in northern Finland[J],2019,436.
APA	Muurinen L.,Oksanen J.,Vanha-Majamaa I.,&Virtanen R..(2019).Legacy effects of logging on boreal forest understorey vegetation communities in decadal time scales in northern Finland.Forest Ecology and Management,436.
MLA	Muurinen L.,et al."Legacy effects of logging on boreal forest understorey vegetation communities in decadal time scales in northern Finland".Forest Ecology and Management 436(2019).