Future woodland management and regeneration rely on decisions that are often driven by
current cultural choices and ecological knowledge. What is the contribution of historical data …

Common-resource management arrangements exist in many traditional land-use systems,
for instance in forestry (Lidestav et al., 2013), livestock herding (Netting, 1976) or fisheries …

Human colonisation of the north-western European landscape brought gradual, though
sometimes abrupt changes. From templates of savannah and forest, human activities …

Our understanding of the historical ecology of European forests has been transformed in the
last twenty years. Bringing together key findings from across the continent, Europe's …

Humans have managed European landscapes, including woodlands, for millennia. Prior to
the birth of modern forestry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there existed two …

Wood-pastures are archetypes of High Nature Value Farmlands in Europe and hold
exceptional ecological, social, and cultural values. Yet, wood-pastures have been through a …

Wood-pastures are treed landscapes that were formed and shaped by human management
and natural processes–with these, they are important elements of the European ecological …

Grazed wooded landscapes have played a crucial role in the history of the European
countryside. From the Neolithic, wood-pastures have been at the heart of subsistence …

Silvopastoral ecosystems, such as wood-pastures, form traditional landscapes in Europe,
but many of them suffered a large decline during the last century (Etienne, 1996; Skånes …

These two edited volumes both deal, from a variety of perspectives, with the history and
ecology of 'wood-pastures'–grazed woodlands–a type of habitat which once covered vast …