Temporal variation of polypore diversity based on modelled dead wood dynamics in managed and natural Norway spruce forests

Our study suggests that dead-wood supply of managed stands could be optimised to lift lowest species expectations towards levels in natural-like forests, but it seems that reaching these levels requires dead-wood quantities much higher than provided by conventional management. Management of stand diversity can presumably be facilitated with wise landscape planning but more research is needed in order to incorporate polypores to spatio-temporal management simulation context.