… disturbances. I have chosen to review the predominant disturbance patterns in the boreal
forest from the large scale (fire and herbivory) to the small scale (internal stand-disturbance …

… the use of natural disturbance regimes to guide management of boreal forest. Furthermore,
I … community change after disturbance. I will focus on the Fennoscandian boreal forests, but …

… of three of the most important disturbance agents (fire, wind, … indicators of biodiversity in
forests of the boreal, cool- and … disturbances on a wide range of possible objectives of forest …

… on the European boreal forest in this broader sense. The boreal forest in Fennoscandia is …
species, which grow tall enough to form a forest (Nikolov and Helmisaari 1992, Pennanen and …

… In this paper, I first use the tree species composition in the Old World boreal forest to identify
regions from which knowledge on natural disturbance regimes can potentially be gathered …

… to rates of forest disturbance (largely by fire … boreal forest (in both trees and forest soils),
both tree growth and the areal extent of forest cover would affect the capacity of the boreal forest …

… from boreal forests outside of North America or boreal species growing in temperate forests
… effects of disturbances on boreal soils were conducted depending on the availability of data. …

… While the only source in European pristine boreal forests is lightning strikes. It can be … studies
of pristine boreal forest dynamics as related to various natural disturbances. The European …

… disturbance in boreal forests. Because of the ubiquity of large-scale, stand-initiating disturbances
… boreal forests have received little attention. Research in the Scandinavian and Russian …

… However, we can draw some simplifying conclusions about disturbance in boreal … rium of
forest composition is almost never reached. Most stands are in post-disturbance successional …