Blanco et al. (2018) Natural Resource Modelling 1 / 42 Post-print of the manuscript: Modelling the management of forest ecosystems: Importance of wood decomposition. Natural Resource Modelling 2018, e12173. DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12173 Juan A. Blanco Dep. Ciencias del Medio Natural, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. Contact author: juan.blanco@unavarra.es Deborah S. Page-Dumroese U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, USA. ddumroese@fs.fed.us Martin F. Jurgensen Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA. mfjurgen@mtu.edu Michael P. Curran B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Nelson, BC, Canada (retired). vw70@shaw.ca Joanne M. Tirocke U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, USA. jtirocke@fs.fed.us Joanna Walitalo Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA. joannar@mtu.edu This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Blanco JA, Page-Dumroese DS, Jurgensen MF, Curran MP, Tirocke JM, Walitalo J. Modelling the management of forest ecosystems: Importance of wood decom-position. Natural Resource Modeling. 2018;e12173. doi:10.1111/nrm.12173, which has been published in final form at https:// doi.org/10.1111/nrm.12173. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.