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Most landscapes bear the imprint of past human land use that in some cases dates back centuries or even millennia. Land use has the potential to create strong legacy effects on biotic communities that may persist for decades or centuries, even after the landscape has been abandoned and seemingly restored to its natural pre-settlement state. Current species distributions may thus better reflect historical than contemporary landscape configurations, owing to the lagged response of species to landscape change.
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WITH, K.A. (2007). Invoking the Ghosts of Landscapes Past to Understand the Landscape Ecology of the Present … and the Future. In: Bissonette, J.A., Storch, I. (eds) Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45447-4_4
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