Data-set 14:

Wilderness area northeast from the Paanajärvi National Park

Sampling frame: Study area forms about five kilometres wide belt limited by the Paanajärvi National Park at southwest. The eastern end of the area is located about two kilometres (west-)north-east from the end of the new forestry road (coordinate point 0388:7361). The western end of the area is at the line Lake Vitankatkasemalampi-Lake Kamennoje (Coordinate points 0378:7367 and 0382:7371).

Field methods: 0.5 hectare study plots (transects). All transects are situated in north-south direction.

Selection of study plots: Systematic sampling. Study plots are situated in the crossing points of (Russian UTM) coordinate lines starting from point 0388:7361 and moving four kilometres to the south, north, east and west, and square root four kilometres to the north-west, south-west etc.

Amount of data: 12 independent study plots, altogether six hectares. The sample plots included altogether 2550 dead trees, of which 1707 were more than 10 cm thick.

Species included in the study: All wood inhabiting polypores and some other wood inhabiting fungi, see a list of target species.

Field workers: Mariko Lindgren (University of Helsinki), Jenni Hottola (University of Oulu), Anna Ruokolainen (Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelian Research Centre, Petrozavodsk), Riina Ala-Risku (University of Helsinki), Irina Zaitseva (University of Moscow) and Konstantin Kobyakov (Nature Protection Agency of Murmansk Region, Apatiti).

Time and duration of field work: June 3. - 17. 2001, altogether about 12 days. Including the travelling from Helsinki, the expedition took 20 days.

Areas selected (sampled) for the study: Photos taken north from the southern end of each study plot. The Russian UTM-coordinates of the central point of each plot are seen when moving the cursor on the photos.

Study plots 150 - 280 meters above sea level:
7365:388, 150 m asl 7367:386, 170 m asl 7365:384, 200 m asl 7367:382, 210 m asl 7363:386, 230 m asl 7361:388, 240 m asl 7369:384, 270 m asl 7369:380, 280 m asl

Study plots 300-320 meters above sea level:
7361:384, 300 m asl 7371:382, 320 m asl 7365:380, 320 m asl 7367:378, 320 m asl

Funding: Travel expences were covered by a financing from the Finnish Ministry of Environment. Salaries: Research project "Structure and dynamics of natural and managed boreal forest landscapes - Linking landscape pattern, stand structure and species diversity", financed by FIBRE (Finnish Biodiversity Research Programme), Academy of Finland (Lindgren) and Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelian Research Centre (Ruokolainen).

Notes: Data saved on a data-base.