The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-88

  Foster, David ^a   Swanson, Frederick ^b   Aber, John ^c   Burke, Ingrid ^d   Brokaw, Nicholas ^e   Tilman, David ^f   Knapp, Alan ^g  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e University of Puerto Rico Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies   (Puerto Rico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Disturbance; Ecosystem process; Land use; Natural resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037232914     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0077:TIOLUL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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