Abstract
Editorial: Past land-use and land-cover change: the challenge of quantification at the subcontinental to global scales
Highlights
If the effects of past land use on environmental and societal processes and climate are to be quantified, the reconstructions of past land use and related land-cover change have to be more realistic than the model scenarios previously used
The first coordinated database of land-cover maps, at 50-year intervals, since 1700 CE for climate modeling studies was led by Leemans and collaborators, and discussed for the first time at a workshop organized by PAGES Biome 300 (Leemans et al 2000)
The latter was part of the PAGES HITE working group initiated by Frank Oldfield (Oldfield et al 2000), the first PAGES activity dealing with the human dimension of climate change
Summary
If the effects of past land use on environmental and societal processes and climate are to be quantified, the reconstructions of past land use and related land-cover change have to be more realistic than the model scenarios previously used. It is still a challenge, to quantify land-use change in the past and its effect on past environment through time and across space. The size and sign (warming or cooling) of the net effect of anthropogenic land-cover change on global and regional climate is, still a matter of debate (Strandberg et al 2014; Gaillard et al 2015).
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