{"id":6859,"date":"2026-03-27T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:21:31","slug":"effects-of-ips-typographus-l-and-sanitation-logging-disturbance-on-organic-matter-decomposition-and-carbon-in-the-humus-layer-in-boreal-picea-abies-l-h-karst-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2026\/03\/27\/effects-of-ips-typographus-l-and-sanitation-logging-disturbance-on-organic-matter-decomposition-and-carbon-in-the-humus-layer-in-boreal-picea-abies-l-h-karst-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Ips typographus (L.) and sanitation logging disturbance on organic matter decomposition and carbon in the humus layer in boreal Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. stands"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><span style=\"color: #0d5c06;font-size: 10pt\"><strong>Research paper<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/26-03-27_Kosunen-M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6867 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/26-03-27_Kosunen-M-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/26-03-27_Kosunen-M-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/26-03-27_Kosunen-M-640x379.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/26-03-27_Kosunen-M.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Key message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Sanitation logging, aimed at mitigating the spread of European spruce bark beetle (<i>Ips typographus<\/i>\u00a0L.) outbreaks in boreal stands, was associated with increased decomposition and loss of carbon from the humus layer, measured 10\u00a0years post-disturbance. We encourage forest managers to take such ecological side-effects into consideration when planning intervention strategies against bark beetle attacks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nBark beetle; Soil organic matter; Silviculture; Boreal forest; Tree mortality<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-026-01328-8'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nKosunen, M., Lyytik\u00e4inen-Saarenmaa, P. &amp; Karhu, K. Effects of\u00a0<i>Ips typographus<\/i>\u00a0(L.) and sanitation logging disturbance on organic matter decomposition and carbon in the humus layer in boreal\u00a0<i>Picea abies<\/i>\u00a0(L.) H. Karst. stands.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a0(2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-026-01328-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-026-01328-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nErwin Dreyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research paper Key message\u00a0 Sanitation logging, aimed at mitigating the spread of European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus\u00a0L.) outbreaks in boreal stands, was associated with increased decomposition and loss of carbon from the humus layer, measured 10\u00a0years post-disturbance. We encourage forest managers to take such ecological side-effects into consideration when planning intervention strategies against bark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-non-classe","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-1-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6870,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/6870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}