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Effects of forest management on biodiversity

Photo: Sini Savilaakso
Photo: Sini Savilaakso

What are the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forests management on boreal forest biodiversity in Northern Europe and Russia?

Biodiversity is vital for human well-being, but it is threatened by human actions world-wide. In boreal zone, harvesting and management of forests at industrial scale is the most important factor of habitat change and degradation. Over time different forest management regimes have been implemented but their impact on biodiversity at different spatial and temporal scale has not been systematically reviewed. Hence, a systematic review was planned.

Research question

The original research topic was ‘What is the role of production forests in biodiversity conservation?’ This rather broad topic was discussed in stakeholder meeting 23.08.18 and defined into two research questions :

  1. What are the stand-level effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia?
  2. What is the effect of forest management on boreal forest biodiversity in Fennoscandia and European Russia at landscape level?

The review team has written a systematic review protocol that was published at the Environmental Evidence on 2.4.2019. The protocol is available here.

The article screening is now conducted and the results of the relevant articles are being analyzed.

Review team

Sini Savilaakso, Metsäteho Oy; Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Matti Häkkilä, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Anna Johansson, Metsäteho Oy, Finland
Anne Uusitalo, Helsinki University Library, Finland
Terhi Sandgren, Helsinki University Library, Finland
Mikko Mönkkönen, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Pasi Puttonen, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

The review is funded by the Finnish Forest Foundation.

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Systematic review and map

What is a Systematic Review?
A Systematic Review collates, critically appraises, and synthesizes all available evidence relevant to a question. Reviewers use pre-defined methods to minimize bias and thus provide more reliable findings that could inform decision making.

What is a Systematic Map?
A Systematic Map collates, codes, and configures all available evidence relevant to a question. Reviewers use pre-defined methods to minimize bias and assess the extent of the evidence to provide a basis that could inform further research and synthesis.

Source: Collaboration for Environmental Evidence.

Reviews

  • Effects of forest management on biodiversity
  • Value of small habitat patches for biodiversity
  • Ecosystem services valuation
  • Forest habitats and Natura
  • Ecosystem services vs. wood sales
  • Barriers for fish passage
  • Water protection and forestry
  • Sustainability image of forestry
  • Water impacts of peatland forestry
  • Drivers of certification
  • Climate change and boreal forest species

News

Updated information concerning the project is posted in the News. In this section you may also find information of the events.

News and events

Hunting for grey literature

1.2.2019

One of the significant differences between a systematic and non-systematic (i.e. traditional) literature review is that during a systematic review process information is searched also within grey literature that has not been peer-reviewed. In … Lue lisää...

Insights from the stakeholder workshop guide the review

9.11.2018

In our second stakeholder workshop we moved from the impacts of different forest management regimes to conservation practices used in production forests. There was a balanced participation from different stakeholder groups, and the discussion around … Lue lisää...

What do we mean when we talk about evidence?

2.10.2018

At the first stakeholder workshop we got a question about the name of the project, specifically on the use of the word evidence. Based on the discussion that followed, evidence and evidence-based are words that are understood in multiple ways. For a … Lue lisää...

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Sini Savilaakso, Metsäteho Oy


The Finnish Forest Foundation is funding the Evidence-Based Forestry in Finland project.

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