Project Details

This research aims to describe and quantify biodiversity patterns in boreal mixedwood forests and related them to basic theory in order to understand the distribution, function and maintenance of biodiversity in these ecosystems. This entails documenting species-abundance relationships, species-area curves, species turnover across landscapes, food web structures and tree size variation, for plants and insects, two numerically most diverse and biologically most important taxa in boreal forests. These biodiversity patterns are trusted measures of ecosystem integrity, are relevant for integrated models and thus are useful for assessing and predicting the effect and success of sustainable management on mixedwood forests.