[HTML][HTML] Reviewing peatland forestry: Implications and mitigation measures for freshwater ecosystem browning

LH Härkönen, A Lepistö, S Sarkkola… - Forest ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Freshwaters of the boreal and temperate regions have experienced increased browning
during the last decades. Browning, or brownification, is mostly driven by increased organic …

Could continuous cover forestry be an economically and environmentally feasible management option on drained boreal peatlands?

M Nieminen, H Hökkä, R Laiho, A Juutinen… - Forest ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Environmental and economic performance of forestry on drained peatlands was reviewed to
consider whether continuous cover forestry (CCF) could be a feasible alternative to even …

[HTML][HTML] Water quality and the biodegradability of dissolved organic carbon in drained boreal peatland under different forest harvesting intensities

M Palviainen, E Peltomaa, A Laurén… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Boreal peatlands are major sources of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and dissolved organic
carbon (DOC) to downstream aquatic ecosystems, and forest harvesting generally further …

[HTML][HTML] Applying continuous-cover forestry on drained boreal peatlands; water regulation, biodiversity, climate benefits and remaining uncertainties

H Laudon, EM Hasselquist - Trees, Forests and People, 2023 - Elsevier
Continuous-cover forestry (CCF) is increasingly argued as an alternative to clear-cut
harvesting in managed boreal forests to improve water quality and quantity, biodiversity, and …

Ditch network maintenance in peat-dominated boreal forests: Review and analysis of water quality management options

M Nieminen, S Piirainen, U Sikström, S Löfgren… - Ambio, 2018 - Springer
The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of different water management
options to mitigate sediment and nutrient exports from ditch network maintenance (DNM) …

Boreal peatland forests: ditch network maintenance effort and water protection in a forest rotation framework

J Miettinen, M Ollikainen, J Aroviita… - Canadian journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Ditch network maintenance promotes forest growth in drained peatland forests but increases
nutrient and sediment loads, which are detrimental to water quality. Society needs to …

Long-term water table dynamics of forested wetlands: drivers and their effects on wetland hydrology in the southeastern Atlantic coastal plain

DM Amatya, GM Chescheir, TM Williams, RW Skaggs… - Wetlands, 2020 - Springer
Sustainable management of forested wetlands requires an understanding of water Table
(WT) dynamics affected by rainfall and evapotranspiration (ET) and management practices …

Intensive forest management—does it pay off financially on drained peatlands?

A Ahtikoski, H Hökkä - Canadian journal of forest research, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
There are only a few studies focusing on the financial aspects of management regimes on
peatland forests and even fewer studies investigating intensive management. Such studies …

[HTML][HTML] Using a digital elevation model to place overland flow fields and uncleaned ditch sections for water protection in peatland forest management

MT Niemi, P Ojanen, S Sarkkola, H Vasander… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Peatland forest management is an important source of human-induced additional nitrogen,
phosphorus, and organic carbon loads to surface waters in Finland. Ditch network …

Implications of peat soil conceptualization for groundwater exfiltration in numerical modeling: A study on a hypothetical peatland hillslope

A Autio, P Ala‐Aho, AK Ronkanen… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fully integrated physically based hydrological modeling is an essential method for
increasing hydrological understanding of groundwater‐surface water (GW‐SW) interactions …