Perring_et_al_2016

Perring MP, De Frenne P, Baeten L, et al (2016) Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies. Global Change Biology 22:1361–1371. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13146

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Keywords: forest, land cover, historical, opinion, legacy effects

“Land use legacies are the abiotic and biotic properties found at a site, due, at least in part, to the influence of land-use history (Foster et al. 2003)”/“land-use history is the sometimes complex successive sequence of human uses that a site has undergone (REFS)”. Contrasting legacies mean that even for seemingly identical systems at present, they are on different trajectories of change.