Osmo Heikkala

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a field experiment of wood decomposition across 55 forest sites and 6 continents and find that the deadwood decomposition rates increase with temperature, and the strongest temperature effect is found at high precipitation levels.

TL;DR: It is concluded that carabids are well adapted to disturbances, and that frequent use of prescribed fire is essential for the maintenance of natural assemblages of carabid beetles in the boreal forest.

TL;DR: The functional approach shows that clear-cutting does not mimic the dynamics of wildfire, but leads to different functional composition of species assemblages, therefore, prescribed burning or wildfire should be incorporated and sufficient amount of trees retained in forest management to conserve functional processes and natural composition of saproxylic speciesassemblages in boreal forests.

TL;DR: This study proved that tree retention can maintain the continuity of dead wood over early successional stages, if the level of retention is high enough, and fire can be too severe for maintaining living trees or continuity of diverse dead wood.

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale replicated field experiment was conducted to explore the effects of prescribed burning and tree retention (four levels: 0, ten and 50m3-ha−1 and unharvested control) on saproxylic beetles.