Jari Kouki

TL;DR: Retention forestry is applicable to all forest biomes, complements conservation in reserves, and represents bottom-up conservation through forest manager involvement and link retention forestry with land-zoning allocation at various scales, expanding its uses to forest restoration and the management of uneven—age forests.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 78 studies using a systematic review protocol provides support for wider use of retention forestry since it moderates negative harvesting impacts on biodiversity, a promising approach for integrating biodiversity conservation and production forestry, although identifying optimal solutions between these two goals may need further attention.

TL;DR: It is suggested that an essential part of such management—supplementing the protection of large reserves and sensitive areas within forest landscapes (e.g., aquatic features)—is the adoption of the retention approach in forests where logging occurs.

TL;DR: Results from current research indicate the need to restore and recreate natural fire-originated early successional stages where the amount of coarse woody debris is high, which is potentially a very effective way to sustain populations of several threatened wood-associated species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed peer-reviewed research publications on tree retention from studies performed in Finland, Norway and Sweden and found that retention trees provide some of the substrate types required by early-successional species, alleviate the most serious consequences of clear-cutting on biota, and cannot maintain characteristics of intact mature forests.