Foster_et_al_2003

Foster D, Swanson F, Aber J, et al (2003) The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation. BioScience 53:77. https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0077:TIOLUL]2.0.CO;2

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Keywords: land cover, historical, legacy effects, foundational

4 case studies for the broad legacy effects of humans in terrestrial landscapes. Tree abundance, species composition, and forest structure are all dependent on past land-use types and logging intensity. Land-use equally affects soils and their structures. Recovery from legacy effects varies a lot depending on the system and past land-use. Historical landscapes are required to understand current ecosystems.