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