Sammanfattning

The majority of the world's forests are used for multiple purposes, which often include the potentially conflicting goals of timber production and biodiversity conservation. A scientifically validated management approach that can reduce such conflicts is retention forestry, an approach modeled on natural processes, which emerged in the last 25 years as an alternative to clearcutting. A portion of the original stand is left unlogged to maintain the continuity of structural and compositional diversity. We detail retention forestry's ecological role, review its current practices, and summarize the large research base on the subject. Retention forestry is applicable to all forest biomes, complements conservation in reserves, and represents bottom-up conservation through forest manager involvement. A research challenge is to identify thresholds for retention amounts to achieve desired outcomes. We define key issues for future development and link retention forestry with land-zoning allocation at various scales, expanding its uses to forest restoration and the management of uneven-age forests.

Nyckelord

biodiversity; ecology; conservation; forestry

Publicerad i

Bioscience
2012, Volym: 62, nummer: 7, sidor: 633-645
Utgivare: AMER INST BIOLOGICAL SCI

SLU författare

• Gustafsson, Lena

  • Institutionen för naturvårdsbiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

Skog
Biologisk mångfald
SLU Future Forests


Globala målen

SDG15 Skydda, återställa och främja ett hållbart nyttjande av landbaserade ekosystem, hållbart bruka skogar, bekämpa ökenspridning, hejda och vrida tillbaka markförstöringen samt hejda förlusten av biologisk mångfald


UKÄ forskningsämne

Ekologi
Miljövetenskap
Skogsvetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.7.6

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/41109