Edenius, Lars
- Institutionen för vilt, fisk och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
5. Synthesis and applications. Our results suggest that changes in land use practices are the main cause of changes in aspen abundance at regional and national scales in Sweden during the last 50 years. Restoring regeneration niches, most importantly emulating natural disturbance processes, viz. fire at various spatial scales, and retaining aspen in cleaning and pre-commercial thinnings are the most important management recommendations to secure regeneration of aspen. Protecting established aspen ramets at designated sites from browsing either by fencing or reducing ungulate numbers could be used as complementary management tools.
abundance; aspen; browsing; conservation; demographics; disturbance; forestry; spatial scale; species; ungulates
Journal of Applied Ecology
2011, volym: 48, nummer: 2, sidor: 301-309
Utgivare: WILEY-BLACKWELL
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald
Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/58023