![]() Historical ecology encompasses all of the data, techniques, and perspectives from paleoecology land-use history from archival and documentary research and long-term ecological research and monitoring extended over decades. ![]() As Aldo Leopold (1941) observed, "A science of land health needs, first of all, a base datum of normality, a picture of how healthy land maintains itself as an organism." Historical timeframes range from decades to millennia. Historical perspectives increase our understanding of the dynamic nature of landscapes and provide a frame of reference for assessing modern patterns and processes. Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of ecosystems.
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