Much of Canada's terrestrial biodiversity is supported by boreal forests. Natural resource
development in boreal forests poses risks to this biodiversity. This paper reviews the …

In the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region of the contiguous United States, retention of live
(green) trees in harvest units is an integral part of forest management practices on federal …

Although anthropogenic edges are an important consequence of timber harvesting, edges
due to natural disturbances or landscape heterogeneity are also common. Forest edges …

Forest integrity has been proposed as one conservation endpoint that integrates desirable
characteristics such as natural biodiversity, stand structure and continuity. Although its …

Aggregated retention is now a common method of regeneration harvest in forest ecosystems
managed for both timber and ecological objectives. If residual forest aggregates are to serve …

Management of forest for timber values presents potential threats for forest floor bryophytes,
as localized disturbances are applied across landscapes. Dispersal limitation may …

Studies on the effectiveness of forest buffer strips left along streams after logging have long
overlooked the biota of the buffers themselves, despite their high species richness. We …

Ecological, economic, and social demands triggered a shift in the management of temperate
deciduous forests from rotation forestry system towards more nature-based forest …

We studied the ten-year response of understory vegetation and lichens in mature boreal
Norway spruce forests to five felling treatments in southern Finland. The stand level …

Changes in the herb and moss layers of mountain spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) forests
after bark beetle (Ips typographus (L.)) outbreak were compared with and without forestry …