MOST woodlands in Sweden have been subjected to fire in one form or another-forest fires,
burning-over for cultivation, practised in former times, and the present-day prescribed …

THREE to four hundred years ago burning was used extensively in South-East Norway as a
means to clear forest to prepare for sowing of grain in the ash. After a few years with grain …

Except for the southernmost part and the high mountains in the northwest, Sweden lies in
the boreal and hemiboreal (Ahti et al. 1968) zones. Although the country spans nearly 1500 …

A s is the case throughout the whole coniferous region of the world, fire has played an
important role in shaping the dynamics of forest ecosystems in Finland. Up to the beginning …

Degree: Skogl. Dr. DegreeYear: 1993 Institute: Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (Sweden)
Publisher: Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. This thesis examines …

A report of part of a larger project (started in 1972) on fire ecology in Finnish boreal forests.
Increment cores were taken in 1974 from dominant Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees in 73 …

We studied plant survival and colonization over an experimental gradient, from fire lightly
scorching the soil to fire consuming most of the organic soil layer, at two forest sites in …

The presence of charcoal in the soil profile, derived from former forest fires, has long been
considered a fairly ubiquitous phenomenon in the boreal forests of northern Sweden. In …

The occurrence of forest fires in the Muddus National Park (area, 50 000 ha), just north of the
Arctic Circle in northern Sweden, was investigated on 75 separate sample plots. Between …

In contrast to many other countries within the boreal region, the occurrence of wildfires in
Finland has decreased considerably during the past few decades because of land-use …