I would like to thank my supervisor Dennis Jonason and other members from the conservation ecology group Lars Westerberg, Karl-Olof Bergman and Per Milberg, IFM, division of ecology, Linköping University for all the support during the work. An extra thanks to Malin Tälle who helped with the plant survey during the fieldwork. I would also like to thank Boxholms Skogar AB and other private forest owners for allowing us to perform fieldwork on their land.