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Value of small habitat patches for biodiversity

Do small protected habitat patches within boreal production forests provide value for biodiversity conservation?

Forest harvesting is the main factor of habitat degradation and biodiversity loss in forests of the boreal zone. Areas set aside from forestry are not effective enough to mitigate harmful effects, and therefore small-scale habitats with high biodiversity values have been protected also within production forests.  In addition to their direct value as habitats for species, the small patches may contain more deadwood or green retention trees than the surrounding landscape. Both green retention trees and deadwood have been shown to be important for maintaining biodiversity in boreal forests. To synthesize the knowledge regarding the value of small habitat patches left within production landscapes for biodiversity conservation a systematic review was planned.

Research question

A stakeholder meeting was held 7.11.2018. There the research questions were defined and other aspects of the planned review discussed. The primary research question is ‘Do small protected habitat patches within boreal production forests provide value for biodiversity conservation?’ Woodland key habitats and small-scale habitats protected by voluntary conservation action are included as small protected habitat patches.

The review team has written a systematic review protocol that was published at the Environmental Evidence on 6.8.2019. The protocol is available here.

The review team is screening for relevant research data on the topic of the review so should you or your organization have any published or unpublished data answering the research questions please contact us! All the organizational identification information will be removed from the data.

Review team

Matti Häkkilä, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Sini Savilaakso, Metsäteho Oy; Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, 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

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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