Continuous cover forestry maintains carbon sinks of nutrient-rich drained peatland forests
A recent study by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Eastern Finland analysed how different forest management practices affect the timber production, ecosystem net primary production and emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) in nutrient-rich peatlands drained for forestry in southern Finland. The examined sites acted as a carbon sink with low and middle harvest intensity, while these sites turned into a …