Acknowledgements
This study was made possible by financial support
from Bratt° asstiftelsen, the Swedish National
Council for Forestry and Agricultural Research
(SJFR), and the Faculty of Forestry at the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences. Using economic
data collected within the research project
‘Land use, timber production and biodiversity
in boreal forests’, the study is part of the
research project ‘Silviculture in the small private
forestry—economic efficiency and environmental
consideration’, and it also has great relevance for
the work within the forest part of the ‘Mountain
Mistra Research Programme’. The authors
thank Professors Urban Bergsten, Bj¨orn H°anell
and Ulf S¨oderberg, all at Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, as well as three referees,
for valuable comments on earlier versions of the
manuscript.