Broadleaves - history, ecology and management

Course literature - Spring 2025 - SV0062

Forest history, forest dynamics and biodiversity (module 1, part 1)

• Brunet et al. 2010. Biodiversity in European beech forests – a review with recommendations for sustainable forest management. Ecological Bulletins 53: 77-94.
• Larsen et al. 2005. Ecology of tree species and species selection. In: Naturnaer skovdrift (edited by Larsen, J.B.)
• Kirby and Watkins (Eds.). 2015. Europe’s changing woods and forests: from wildwood to managed landscapes. CAB International. 393 pp. Chapters 1-4.

Forest history, forest dynamics and biodiversity (module 1, part 2)

• Bond 2005. Large parts of the world are brown or black: a different view on the ‘Green World’ hypothesis. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 261–266.
• Brunet et al. 2010. Biodiversity in European beech forests – a review with recommendations for sustainable forest management. Ecological Bulletins 53: 77-94.
• Hedin, J., & Ranius, T. (2002). Using radio telemetry to study dispersal of the beetle Osmoderma eremita, an inhabitant of tree hollows. Computers and electronics in Agriculture, 35(2-3), 171-180.
• Jansson, N., Ranius, T., Larsson, A., & Milberg, P. (2009). Boxes mimicking tree hollows can help conservation of saproxylic beetles. Biodiversity and Conservation, 18(14), 3891-3908.
• Jonsell, M., Weslien, J., & Ehnström, B. (1998). Substrate requirements of red-listed saproxylic invertebrates in Sweden. Biodiversity & Conservation, 7(6), 749-764.
• Kirby and Watkins (Eds.). 2015. Europe’s changing woods and forests: from wildwood to managed landscapes. CAB International. 393 pp. Chapters 1-4.
• Larrieu et al. 2018. Tree related microhabitats in temperate and Mediterranean European forests: A hierarchical typology for inventory standardization. Ecological Indicators 84: 194-207.
• Larsson, M. C. (2016). Pheromones and other semiochemicals for monitoring rare and endangered species. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 42(9), 853-868.
• Larsen et al. 2005. Ecology of tree species and species selection. In: Naturnaer skovdrift (edited by Larsen, J.B.)
• Mölder et al. 2019. Integrative management to sustain biodiversity and ecological continuity in Central European temperate oak (Quercus robur, Q. petraea) forests: An overview. Forest Ecology and Management 437: 324–339
• Nilsson, S.G. 1997 Forests in the temperate-boreal transition: natural and man-made features Ecological Bulletins 46:61-71
• Ranius, T., Niklasson, M., & Berg, N. (2009). Development of tree hollows in pedunculate oak (Quercus robur). Forest Ecology and management, 257(1), 303-310.
• White, P. S., & Walker, J. L. (1997). Approximating nature's variation: selecting and using reference information in restoration ecology. Restoration ecology, 5(4), 338-349.

Forest health (module 2)

• Hartmann H, Bastos A, Das AJ, Esquivel-Muelbert A, Hammond WM, Martínez-Vilalta J, McDowell NG, Powers JS, Pugh TA, Ruthrof KX, Allen CD. 2022. Climate change risks to global forest health: emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide. Annual review of plant biology 73: 673-702.
• Fernandex-Conradi et al. 2021. Combining phytochemicals and multitrophic interactions to
  control forest insect pests. ScienceDirect 44: 101–106
• Prospero and Cleary. 2017. Effects of host variability on the spread of invasive forest diseases.
  Forests 8: 80.
• Roberts et al. 2020. The effect of forest management options on forest resilience to pathogens.
  Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3: 7.
• Moreau G, Chagnon C, Achim A, Caspersen J, D’Orangeville L, Sánchez-Pinillos M, Thiffault N. 2022. Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change. Forestry 95: 595-615.

Ungulate ecology (module 3)

• Felton, A. M., H. K. Wam, Z. Borowski, G. Granhus, L. Juvany, J. Matala, M. Melin, M. Wallgren, and A. Mårell. 2024. Climate change and deer in boreal and temperate regions: from physiology to population dynamics and species distributions. Global Change Biology 30.

• Faison et al. 2016. Ungulate browsers promote herbaceous layer diversity in logged temperate forests. Ecology and Evolution 6: 4591-4602.

• Kolstad et al. 2018. Pervasive moose browsing in boreal forests alters successional trajectories by severely suppressing keystone species. Ecosphere 9: e02458.

• Felton et al. 2020. Varied diets, including broadleaved forage, are important for a large herbivore species inhabiting highly modified landscapes. Scientific Reports 10: 1-13.

Bialowieza forest (module 4)

• Churski et al. 2017. Brown world forests: increased ungulate browsing keeps temperate trees in
  recruitment bottlenecks in resource hotspots. New Phytologist 214: 158-168.
• Hofman-Kaminska et al. 2019. Adapt or die—Response of large herbivores to environmental
  changes in Europe during the Holocene. Global Change Biology 25: 2915–2930.
• Kuijper et al. 2013. Landscape of fear in Europe: wolves affect spatial patterns of ungulate
  browsing in Bialowieza Primeval Forest, Poland. Ecography 36: 1263-1275.
• Nowacki and Abrams. 2008. The Demise of Fire and “Mesophication” of Forests in the Eastern
  United States. BioScience 58: 123-138.
• Mikusiński et al. 2018. Is the impact of loggings in the last primeval lowland forest in Europe
  underestimated? The conservation issues of Białowieża Forest. Biological Conservation 227:
  266-274.
• Spînu et al. 2020. Mesophication in temperate Europe. A dendrochronological reconstruction
  of tree succession and fires in a mixed deciduous stand in Bialowieza forest. Ecology and
  Evolution 10, 1029-1041.

Fast-growing broadleaves (module 5)

• Svystun, Tetiana & Fahlvik, Nils & Böhlenius, Henrik. (2025). Thinning effects on stand and dominant trees development in a second rotation hybrid poplar plantation. European Journal of Forest Research. 144. 1671-1685.

• Muraro, Luca & Adler, Anneli & Böhlenius, Henrik. (2025). Effect of Wood Ash, Lime, and Biochar on the Establishment and Early Growth of Poplars on Acidic Soil Conditions. BioEnergy Research. 18.

• Tetiana Svystun· Henrik Böhlenius (2024) Biomass Production of the Poplar Clone OP42 During the Second Rotation Plantation–The Effects of Four Thinning Treatments. Bioenergy research

• Bohlenius, Henrik; Ohman, Marcus; Granberg, Fredrik Persson Per-Ove (2022) Biomass production and fuel characteristics from long rotation poplar plantations. Biomass and Energy

• Böhlenius H, Salk C, Nilsson U. Liming increases early growth of poplars on forest sites with low soil pH. Biomass and energy. 138, 2020.

Forest management and restoration (module 6)

• Cernansky 2018. How to rebuild a forest. Nature 560: 542-544.
• Gamfeldt et al. 2013. Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more
  tree species. Nature Communications 4: 1340.
• Kelty 2006. The role of species mixtures in plantation forestry. Forest Ecology and Management
  233: 195-204.
• Kirby and Watkins (Eds.). 2015. Europe’s changing woods and forests: from wildwood to
  managed landscapes. CAB International. 393 pp. Chapters 5-8.
• Löf et al. 2016. Management of oak forests: striking a balance between timber production,
  biodiversity and cultural services. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem
  Services and Management 12: 59-73.
• Popkin 2021. Forest fight. Science 374: 1184-1189.
• Stanturf et al. 2014. Contemporary forest restoration: a review emphasizing function. Forest
  Ecology and Management 331: 292-323.
• Vollmuth 2022. The changing perception of coppice with standards in German forestry literature
  up to the present day – From a universal solution to a defamed and overcome evil – and back?
  Trees, Forests and People 10: 100338.