People and pines 1555–1910: integrating ecology, history and archaeology to assess long-term resource use in northern Fennoscandia

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 337-349

  Rautio, Anna Maria ^a,b   Josefsson, Torbjörn ^a,c   Axelsson, Anna Lena ^a   Östlund, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Forestry Museum   (Sweden)

^c The Silver Museum   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Commercial logging; Ecosystem change; Farmers; Firewood; Forest history; Human impact; Inner bark; Native Sami; Pinus sylvestris; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE HISTORY; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOGGING (TIMBER); LONG-TERM CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY;

FENNOSCANDIA; SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84955383982     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0246-9     Document Type: Article

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