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Forests 2011, 2, 243-260; doi:10.3390/f2010243 OPEN ACCESS forests ISSN 1999-4907 /journal/forests Article Consequences of More Intensive Forestry for the Sustainable Management of Forest Soils and Waters Hjalmar Laudon 1,*, Ryan A. Sponseller 1 , Richard W. Lucas 1, Martyn N. Futter 2, Gustaf Egnell 1, Kevin Bishop 2,3, Anneli Ågren 1, Eva Ring 4 and Peter Högberg 1 1 Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden; E-Mails: Ryan.Sponseller@slu.se (R.A.S.); Richard.Lucas@slu.se (R.W.L.); Gustaf.Egnell@slu.se (G.E.); Anneli.Agren@slu.se (A.A.); Peter.Hogberg@slu.se (P.H.) 2 Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; E-Mails: Martyn.Futter@slu.se (M.N.F.); Kevin.Bishop@slu.se (K.B.) 3 Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden 4 The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, Uppsala Science Park, SE-751 83 Uppsala, Sweden; E-Mail: eva.ring@skogforsk.se * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Hjalmar.Laudon@slu.se; Tel.: +46-90-786-8584. Received: 19 November 2010; in revised form: 17 January 2011 / Accepted: 8 February 2011 / Published: 16 February 2011 Abstract: Additions of nutrients, faster growing tree varieties, more intense harvest practices, and a changing climate all have the potential to increase forest production in Sweden, thereby mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration and f