Land-Use History as Long-Term Broad-Scale Disturbance: Regional Forest Dynamics in Central New England
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Widespread agricultural land use by the mid-Holocene is evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use.
“Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78–84).”
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As agriculture continues to intensify and migration to cities depopulates rural landscapes, lands less suited to industrial-scale production are being abandoned in some regions, enabling large-scale forest recoveries, especially where governance systems support this.
“As agriculture continues to intensify and migration to cities depopulates rural landscapes, lands less suited to industrial-scale production are being abandoned in some regions, enabling large-scale forest recoveries, especially where governance systems support this (84, 105, 106).”
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- Authors
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., & Slater, B.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Ecosystems
- Published
- 1998-01-01
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 96-119
- ISSN
- 1432-9840 (ISSN-L)
- 1435-0629
- OpenAlex
- W2083794269
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- 662
- References
- 56
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- FWCI
- 18.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Ecosystems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Keywords
- land use history, forest dynamics, forest vegetation change, climate gradients, growing degree days, hemlock, northern hardwood forest, surface fire, vegetation homogenization, forest recovery, shade tolerance, forest composition, Central Massachusetts, New England forests, paleoecology, landscape conservation, reforestation, European settlement, tree species distribution
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