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Matts Lindbladh
Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks
The major objectives of this paper are: (1) to review the pros and cons of the scenarios of past anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) developed during the last ten years, (2) to discuss issues related to pollen-based reconstruction of the past land-cover and introduce a new method, REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites), to infer long-term records of past land-cover from pollen data, (3) to present a new project (LANDCLIM: LAND cover – CLIMate interactions in NW Europe during the Holocene) currently underway, and show preliminary results of REVEALS reconstructions of the regional land-cover in the Czech Republic for five selected time windows of the Holocene…
Half a century of multiple anthropogenic stressors has altered northern forest understory plant communities
The boreal forests constitute the largest forest biome in the northern hemisphere. These forests are under increasing anthropogenic impact from intensified forest management, eutrophication and climate change, which may change their ecosystem functions and the services they provide. Swedish forests cover a long climatic gradient, receive highly variable rates of nitrogen deposition, and have a long history of forest use. Extensive systematic long-term data on vegetation from the National Forest Inventories (NFI) make Sweden an ideal area to study how species composition and function of other, more pristine boreal forests, might change under increased anthropogenic impact. We used NFI-data t…
Increasing influence of the surrounding landscape on saproxylic beetle communities over 10 years succession in dead wood
In a previous study of saproxylic beetle fauna on fresh artificially created high stumps of spruce and birch on 20 clear-cuts (whereof 10 in hotspots) we found only weak relations between beetle fauna and forest-landscape variables associated with hotspots for biodiversity. The stumps were distributed over a large part of south Sweden in an area covering 200 km from East to West and 50 km North to South. The result gave weak support for the strategy of concentrating measures to mitigate the decrease of dead-wood dependent insects to hotspots. We hypothesised that the relationships would be stronger when the wood was in a later successional stage, as hanbitat predictability increases with a …