This book addresses present-day landscapes, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity as legacies of the past. It implements an interdisciplinary approach to understand how natural or human-impacted ecological systems have changed over time.
Historical Ecology combines theory, methods, regional case studies and syntheses to provide a complete up-to-date overview of historical ecology. Beginning with the crucial role of time and inference from observed patterns, the book critically reviews the main methodological approaches, including monitoring of permanent plots, analysis of old maps, repeat photography, remote sensing, soil analysis, charcoal analysis, botanical indicators, and combinations of these methods applied to forest ecosystems.
A series of case studies from various biomes shows how historical ecology can help in understanding today's socio-ecosystems, such as mainland and island forests, orchards, tundra and coastal dunes. The book concludes by showing how historical ecology can answer timely fundamental research questions and provide science-based evidence for landscape and ecosystem management.
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Historical Ecology
Learning from the Past to Understand the Present and Forecast the Future of Ecosystems
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Learning from the Past to Understand the Present and Forecast the Future of Ecosystems
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1. A General Introduction to Historical Ecology
- Chapter 2. Historical Resurveys Reveal Causes of Long-term Ecological Change
- Chapter 3. Getting the Right Answer Can Take a While: Long-term Ecological Field Studies as Historical Ecology
- Chapter 4. Gaps and Cracks in Land Cover Mapping for Historical Ecology
- Chapter 5. The Use of Repeat Photography in African Historical Ecology
- Chapter 6. Remote Sensing for Historical Ecology
- Chapter 7. Soil Archives: Where Soilscape History Meets Present-day Ecosystems
- Chapter 8. Continuous and Nested Time in Historical Ecology: Application to Soil Studies
- Chapter 9. The Analysis of Relic Charcoal Kilns for the Assessment of Forest Trajectories
- Chapter 10. Ancient Trees and Botanical Indicators as Evidence for Change and Continuity in Landscape Evolution
- Chapter 11. Towards a Methodological Framework for Investigating the Hidden History of Woodland Covers
- Chapter 12. The Gate to the Forest is in its History
- Chapter 13. Plant Assemblages and Ecosystem Functioning, a Legacy of Long-term Interactions with Large Herbivores
- Chapter 14. A Historical Ecology of the Compiègne Forest (N France)
- Chapter 15. The Chestnut Orchards in the Bolognese Apennines: A Vanishing Socio-ecological Habitat
- Chapter 16. Claudius’ Coin in the Forest – Niche Construction and Strategies by Early Colonizers of Boreal Inlands in Central Scandinavia
- Chapter 17. Recent History of Vegetation Changes in the Arctic
- Chapter 18. Reconstructing the Impact of Humans on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Biodiversity
- Chapter 19. Historical Ecology of the Coastal Aeolian Sedimentary Systems of the Canary Islands
- Chapter 20. Historical Forest Microclimates
- Chapter 21. Causes and Consequences of Extinction Debts: Perspectives for Historical Ecology and Biological Conservation
- Chapter 22. Historical Ecology for the Past and the Future: Organizing at Local and Regional Scales
- List of Authors
- Index
- EULA
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