Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: The importance of land-use legacies

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1361-1371

  Perring, Michael P ^a,b   De Frenne, Pieter ^a   Baeten, Lander ^a   Maes, Sybryn L ^a   Depauw, Leen ^a   Blondeel, Haben ^a   Carón, María M ^c   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest understorey; Functional traits; Historical ecology; Land use history; Nitrogen deposition; Ozone; Response and effect framework

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCE; PLANT;

ECOSYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCES; PLANTS;

EID: 84975701865     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13146     Document Type: Article

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