Retention Forestry to Maintain Multifunctional Forests: A World Perspective

The majority of the world's forests are used for multiple purposes, which often include the potentially conflicting goals of timber production and biodiversity conservation. A scientifically validated management approach that can reduce such conflicts is retention forestry, an approach modeled on natural processes, which emerged in the last 25 years as an alternative to clearcutting. A portion of the original stand is left unlogged to maintain the continuity of structural and compositional diversity. We detail retention forestry's ecological role, review its current practices, and summarize the large research base on the subject. Retention forestry is applicable to all forest biomes, complements conservation…

• SF
  Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning
• SF
  Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas

  Award: 215-2009-569
• V
  Vetenskapsrådet

  Award: 215-2009-569
• SL
  Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet
• UU
  Umeå Universitet
• S
  Skogforsk