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ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 15, Issue 6, Pages 1879-1892Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/03-5330
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aggressive species; biomass; carbon sequestration; cumulative impacts; disturbance; invasion; land cover; land use; legacy; pollution
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Land-use change and land-management practices affect a variety of ecological processes. Land-use impacts. on ecological processes include local extirpations, introductions of new species, changes in land-cover extent, changes in juxtaposition of land-cover types, changes to disturbance regimes, changes in vegetation structure and composition, and effects on air, water, And light quality, and noise pollution. Effects of land-use changes on ecological processes are, discussed-with special reference to changes in rural environments. Our premise is that better understanding of ecological processes improves land management. Mitigation strategies are presented with respect to management of initial ecological conditions, of the changes themselves, and of the altered system. The paper focuses on proactive environmental management efforts and identifies key research issues as (1) quantifying land-use legacies, (2) determining conditions under which land use modifies impacts of other stressors, (3) identifying conditions under which deleterious impacts can be avoided, (4) understanding cumulative impacts of land-use change, (5) improving our understanding of how land use alters resistance or susceptibility to invasion and impacts of pollutants, (6) crafting socioeconomically reasonable incentives for restoring or reducing effects of land-use practices, and (7) :accelerating the integration of social and ecological sciences.
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