Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry |
| Authors: |
Timo Kuuluvainen, Per Angelstam, Lee Frelich, Kalev Jõgiste, Matti Koivula, Yasuhiro Kubota, Benoit Lafleur, Ellen Macdonald |
| Source: |
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol 4 (2021) |
| Publisher Information: |
Frontiers Media S.A., 2021. |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Forestry
LCC:Environmental sciences |
| Subject Terms: |
biodiversity conservation, forest dynamics, forest ecosystem, landscape management, restoration, sustainable forestry, Forestry, SD1-669.5, Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| More Details: |
Global forest area is declining rapidly, along with degradation of the ecological condition of remaining forests. Hence it is necessary to adopt forest management approaches that can achieve a balance between (1) human management designs based on homogenization of forest structure to efficiently deliver economic values and (2) naturally emerging self-organized ecosystem dynamics that foster heterogeneity, biodiversity, resilience and adaptive capacity. Natural disturbance-based management is suggested to provide such an approach. It is grounded on the premise that disturbance is a key process maintaining diversity of ecosystem structures, species and functions, and adaptive and evolutionary potential, which functionally link to sustainability of ecosystem services supporting human well-being. We review the development, ecological and evolutionary foundations and applications of natural disturbance-based forest management. With emphasis on boreal forests, we compare this approach with two mainstream approaches to sustainable forest management, retention and continuous-cover forestry. Compared with these approaches, natural disturbance-based management provides a more comprehensive framework, which is compatible with current understanding of multiple-scale ecological processes and structures, which underlie biodiversity, resilience and adaptive potential of forest ecosystems. We conclude that natural disturbance-based management provides a comprehensive ecosystem-based framework for managing forests for human needs of commodity production and immaterial values, while maintaining forest health in the rapidly changing global environment. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
2624-893X |
| Relation: |
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2021.629020/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2624-893X |
| DOI: |
10.3389/ffgc.2021.629020 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/c1cab7cd658843d78250ed245caaf513 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.1cab7cd658843d78250ed245caaf513 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
