The new boreal forestry: adjusting timber management to accommodate biodiversity

Forestry practices intended to ensure ecological sustainability have been d eveloped rapidly during the past decade and now are widely deployed and pro moted. In a recent special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Forest Rese arch, forest ecologists and biodiversity experts consider how this new mana gement responds to Fennoscandian concerns about biodiversity. The authors c onclude that the new forestry practices are largely untested scientific hyp otheses, and explore a sound research framework aimed at improving manageme nt of boreal forests.