- EAN13
- 9782759229079
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- Date de publication
- 30/11/2018
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- Update Sciences & technologies
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- anglais
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Into the woods
Overlapping perspectives on the history of ancien forest
Chantal Aspe, Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet, Sylvain Burri
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At the centre of concerns related to curbing the decline in forest
biodiversity caused by increasing anthropogenic pressure and global change,
old-growth forests are mainly characterised by the continuity of their tree
cover. This has been defined mainly by their appearance on historical maps and
by ecological criteria dating back to certain temporal cut-off points (about
two centuries). Inherited over hundreds, even thousands,of years of
interaction between Man and Nature, these ancient forests have been managed
and shaped by past societies to meet their various needs, both domestic and
industrial. Also, studying the historical trajectories of such forests,their
responses to environmental and anthropogenic stress, and the long-term
consequences of past human activities, is essential in order to better
understand their current ecology and rethink their conservation. The
development of pluridisciplinary and interdisciplinary research (ecology,
paleoecology, history, archaeology, geography, sociology) now makes it
possiblenot only to push back the hitherto accepted thresholds of ancientness,
but in particular to understand old forests in their entirety and complexity
over the longer term.
This book, comprising both theoretical and methodological contributions along
with case studies, reflects the diversity of current approaches and thinking
and promotes interdisciplinarity as the only route to a comprehensive
understanding of ancient forests as natural and cultural assets.
biodiversity caused by increasing anthropogenic pressure and global change,
old-growth forests are mainly characterised by the continuity of their tree
cover. This has been defined mainly by their appearance on historical maps and
by ecological criteria dating back to certain temporal cut-off points (about
two centuries). Inherited over hundreds, even thousands,of years of
interaction between Man and Nature, these ancient forests have been managed
and shaped by past societies to meet their various needs, both domestic and
industrial. Also, studying the historical trajectories of such forests,their
responses to environmental and anthropogenic stress, and the long-term
consequences of past human activities, is essential in order to better
understand their current ecology and rethink their conservation. The
development of pluridisciplinary and interdisciplinary research (ecology,
paleoecology, history, archaeology, geography, sociology) now makes it
possiblenot only to push back the hitherto accepted thresholds of ancientness,
but in particular to understand old forests in their entirety and complexity
over the longer term.
This book, comprising both theoretical and methodological contributions along
with case studies, reflects the diversity of current approaches and thinking
and promotes interdisciplinarity as the only route to a comprehensive
understanding of ancient forests as natural and cultural assets.
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