Dallimer_et_al_2015

Dallimer M, Davies ZG, Diaz-Porras DF, et al (2015) Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change 31:307–317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.015

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Keywords: land cover, historical, carbon storage, legacy effects, biodiversity

Urbanization is associated with decreased ES but there has been increasing quality of life globally – could be due to time lags. Vegetation C strage is primarily linked to tree size, which is depending on past land-use and management. Cultural ES also experience legacies. A need to quantift how past land-use determines the distribution of present-day ecosystem service provision. Measured 8 ES hypothesized to be influenced by historical land use and management. Generated past land cover using data over 150 yeears – topographical maps. Historical land cover offered better explanation for variation in 5/8 ES than current land cover: C storage, bird density, bird richness, number of users, and continuity with past. Provision of ES varies temporally.