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This volume contains papers presented at a Swedish/Finnish workshop on 'Science and the management of boreal forest biodiversity' held at Olofsfors, Sweden, 27 - 30 September 1999. Participants included scientists and representatives from the forest industry in the two countries. Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee, USA, in response to our invitation, presented a perspective from outside Fennoscandia. It has become increasingly clear that management for biodiversity needs both in-depth analysis and synthesis in order to be successful. From a scientific perspective the problem is unusually challenging because the issue is so complex, and from a practical point of view there is an urgent need for sound recommendations because immediate action is imperative. The boreal forests of Fennoscandia host on the order of 20,000 species of animals, plants and fungi. The primary goal of the workshop was not to examine these organism communities. Instead, the goal was to advance general principles and theories of relevance for boreal forest biodiversity management. The papers in this volume, authored by invited Fennoscandian scientists with an active interest in biodiversity management, summarise major components of the 'new forestry' as practised in Fennoscandia.
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