Title
Toward principles of historical ecology
Author(s)
Beller, E.;McClenachan, L.;Trant, A.;Sanderson, E. W.;Rhemtulla, J.;Guerrini, A.;Grossinger, R.;Higgs, E.
Published
2017
Publisher
American Journal of Botany
Abstract
Rising temperatures and sea levels, biological homogenization and biodiversity loss, habitat fragmentation, and other environmental changes are dramatically reshaping landscapes across the globe. In this context, understanding the patterns, drivers, and consequences of these changes has become one of the central challenges facing environmental scientists and managers today. Yet to do so requires a long-term perspective on environmental systems that predates many of the accelerated anthropogenic impacts of the recent past. How, then, can we understand these changes in the context of decade- and century-scale ecosystem trajectories and human history? What was the structure, function, and dynamics of ecosystems like before these changes? And how have people shaped these systems over time? These questions are the domain of historical ecology.
Keywords
landscape ecology;Plant Sciences
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