Young and old forest in the boreal: critical stages of ecosystem dynamics and management under global change

Abstract The circumboreal forest encompasses diverse landscape structures, dynamics and forest age distributions determined by their physical setting, and historical and current disturbance regimes. However, due to intensifying forest utilisation, and in certain areas due to increasing natural distu...

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Main Authors: Timo Kuuluvainen, Sylvie Gauthier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-06-01
Series:Forest Ecosystems
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40663-018-0142-2