RESTORE

Dataset and study areas

National Forest Inventory in Finland (NFI), carried out by Metla, 1920-.… Finland was the first country in Europe starting to carry out a statistically based national forest inventory. The method involves the use of satellite imagery data and digital mapping, and ground measurements.

Some of the NFI results used in RESTORE are published in:

• Reinikainen, A., Mäkipää, R., Vanha-Majamaa, I. and Hotanen, J.-P. 2001. Kasvit muuttuvassa metsäluonnossa. Summary: Changes in the frequency and abundance of forest and mire plants in Finland since 1950, Tammi, Helsinki, 384 pp.

The only large scale complex forest management and restoration experiments in Fennoscadia:

• MONTA, 1995-..., Finland
• RETREE, 1998-..., Finland
• EVO, NATURA 2000 network 2002-..., Finland

Some of the results of the experiments can be found in the following publications:

• Jalonen, J. and I. Vanha-Majamaa. 2001. Immediate effects of four different felling methods on mature boreal spruce forest understorey vegetation in southern Finland. For. Ecol. Manage. 146: 25-34.
• Vanha-Majamaa, I., Jalonen, J. 2001. Green tree retention in Fennoscandian forestry. Scand. J. For. Res. 3, 79-90.
• Hautala, H., Jalonen, J., Laaka-Lindberg, S. & Vanha-Majamaa, I. 2004. Impacts of retention felling on coarse woody debris (CWD) in mature boreal spruce forests in Finland. Biodiversity & Conservation 13:1541-1554.
• Hautala, H. & Vanha-Majamaa, I. 2007. Immediate tree uprooting after retention felling in coniferous boreal forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 3167-3172.
• Vanha-Majamaa, I., Lilja, S., Ryömä, R., Kotiaho, J.S., Laaka-Lindberg, S., Lindberg, H., Puttonen, P., Tamminen, P., Toivanen, T. & Kuuluvainen, T. 2007. Rehabilitating boreal forest structure and species composition in Finland through logging, dead wood creation and fire: the EVO -experiment. For. Ecol. Manage. 250:77-88.
• Hautala, H., Laaka-Lindberg, S. & Vanha-Majamaa, I. 2010. Effects of retention felling on epixylic vegetation in boreal forest. Conservation Biology, Published Online:, DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00545.x.

Long-term studies on dynamics of pristine European boreal forests (defined as never commercially felled) in Russia. In some of the areas the first inventories were made in the beginning of the 20th century.

• Vepssky Forest nature park, 190 000 ha, 1913-...
• Central Biosphere forest reserve, 32 000 ha, 1939 -...
• Kenozersky national park, 140 000 ha, 2004-...
• Northern Karelian study sites, 2005-...

More about study areas and methodological design:

• Central Biosphere Forest Reserve – RESTORE research objectives and methodological design
  (pdf, 3.1 Mb)
• EVO experiment (pdf, 4.7 Mb)
• Northern Karelia sites – RESTORE research objectives and methodological design (pdf, 2.9 Mb)
• Kenozersky National Park – RESTORE research objectives and methodological design (pdf, 2.3 Mb)
• Forest management and its effects on boreal vegetation in Finland: MONTA experiment (pdf, 2.5 Mb)
• RESTORE - Info on MONTA Patch regeneration study (pdf, 3.4 Mb)
• Effect of the size of retention tree groups on biodiversity in forest regeneration (RETREE)
  (pdf, 2.7 Mb)
• Vepssky forest – RESTORE research objectives and methodological design (pdf, 5.4 Mb)

The RESTORE database is under preparation.

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