Ekholm, Adam Axelsson, Petter Hjältén, Joakim Lundmark, Tomas Sjögren, Jörgen
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Ambio
The rotation forestry system provides high biomass production, but could also have a negative impact on species sensitive to disturbance. Continuous cover forestry (CCF) could contribute to solving these conflicting goals, but its feasibility in nutrient limited boreal forests is yet unresolved. In a unique experiment, we simultaneously assessed th...
Duan, Beixing Cai, Tijiu Man, Xiuling Xiao, Ruihan Gao, Minglei Ge, Zhaoxin Mencuccini, Maurizio
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The Science of the total environment
Forest succession is an important process regulating the carbon and nitrogen budgets in forest ecosystems. However, little is known about how and extent by which vegetation succession predictably affects soil CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes, especially in boreal forest. Here, a field study was conducted along a secondary forest succession trajectory from ...
Uemori, Kazushige Mita, Toshiharu Hishi, Takuo
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Ecology and evolution
The response of communities to environmental change is expected to vary among feeding guilds. To evaluate the response of guilds to environmental factors without considering the taxonomic specificities, it is useful to examine Aculeata bees and wasps, which consist of closely related taxa including different guilds, pollinators, predators, and para...
Koyama, Lina A. Kielland, Knut
Temporal changes in leaf nitrate assimilation with leaf growth were intensively investigated in boreal tree species to demonstrate the contribution of nitrate as a N source and to determine temporal changes in the contribution of nitrate during leaf ontogeny. Leaf area, mass, nitrate reductase activity (NRA), N concentration, and δ15N were repeated...
Shakhmatov, Ruslan Hashiguchi, Shuhei Maximov, Trofim C. Sugimoto, Atsuko
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
Changes in winter precipitation (snow) may greatly affect vegetation by altering hydrological and biochemical processes. To understand the effects of changing snow cover depth and melt timing on the taiga forest ecosystem, a snow manipulation experiment was conducted in December 2015 at the Spasskaya Pad experimental larch forest in Eastern Siberia...
Martinez-Garcia, Eduardo Nilsson, Mats B. Laudon, Hjalmar Lundmark, Tomas Fransson, Johan Wallerman, Jorgen Peichl, Matthias
The forest-floor represents an important interface for various carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes, however, our knowledge of their variability and drivers across a managed boreal forest landscape is limited. Here, we used a three-year (2016-2018) data set of biometric- and chamber-based flux measurements to investigate the net forest-floor CO2 exchange (N...
Schneider, Andreas N.
Fungal communities are major players in globally important nutrient cycling processes, and form symbioses with most terrestrial plants. In the nitrogen (N) limited Swedish boreal forest, ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi colonize most roots of the economically important and stand dominating conifer species, Norway spruce (Picea abies) and Scots pine (Pin...
castro;, david
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is one of the most economically important species to the Swedish forest industry, and cost-efficient planting methods are needed to ensure successful reestablishment after harvesting forest stands. While the majority of clear-cuts are replanted with pre-grown seedlings, direct seeding can be a viable option on poore...
Song, Kai Gao, Bin Halvarsson, Peter Fang, Yun Klaus, Siegfried Jiang, Ying-Xin Swenson, Jon E. Sun, Yue-Hua Höglund, Jacob
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BMC Ecology and Evolution
BackgroundThe boreal forest is one of the largest biomes on earth, supporting thousands of species. The global climate fluctuations in the Quaternary, especially the ice ages, had a significant influence on the distribution of boreal forest, as well as the divergence and evolution of species inhabiting this biome. To understand the possible effects...
Volkmann, Logan A. Hodges, Karen E.
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Movement Ecology
BackgroundWildfires and forestry activities such as post-fire salvage logging are altering North American forests on a massive scale. Habitat change and fragmentation on forested landscapes may threaten forest specialists, such as Pacific marten (Martes caurina), that require closed, connected, and highly structured habitats. Although marten use bu...
