Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation
Van Houtan, Kyle S.
- 1University of Victoria
- 2Smithsonian Institution
- 3University of Exeter
- 4University of Waterloo
- 5University of California System
- 6Nature Conservancy
- 7Simon Fraser University
- 8Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)
- 9Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
- 10Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
- 11Autonomous University of Barcelona
- 12Arizona State University
- 13Bahamas Natl Trust
- 14State University of New York (SUNY) System
- 15Stanford University
- 16University of Oxford
- 17Western Washington University
- 18University of British Columbia
- 19American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
- 20University of Pretoria
- 21State University System of Florida
- 22Dalhousie University
- 23Auburn University System
- 24University of Copenhagen
- 25University of Freiburg
- 26Middlebury College
- 27University of Maine System
- 28Czech Academy of Sciences
- 29
- 30City University of New York (CUNY) System
- 31Boston University
- 32Hefei University of Technology
- 33Kyoto University
- 34University of Edinburgh
- 35Duke University
Journal
Endangered Species Research
ISSN
1863-5407
1613-4796
Open Access
gold
Volume
54
Start page
285
End page
310
Historical ecology draws on a broad range of information sources and methods to provide insight into ecological and social change, especially over the past similar to 12000 yr. While its results are often relevant to conservation and restoration, insights from its diverse disciplines, environments, and geographies have frequently remained siloed or underrepresented, restricting their full potential. Here, scholars and practitioners working in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments on 6 continents and various archipelagoes synthesize knowledge from the fields of history, anthropology, paleontology, and ecology with the goal of describing global research priorities for historical ecology to influence conservation. We used a structured decision-making process to identify and address questions in 4 key priority areas: (1) methods and concepts, (2) knowledge co-production and community engagement, (3) policy and management, and (4) climate change impacts. This work highlights the ways that historical ecology has developed and matured in its use of novel information sources, efforts to move beyond extractive research practices and toward knowledge co-production, and application to management challenges including climate change. We demonstrate the ways that this field has brought together researchers across disciplines, connected academics to practitioners, and engaged communities to create and apply knowledge of the past to address the challenges of our shared future.
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