The role of historic human impacts on modern environmental processes and management: Introduction to special issue

Abstract

Land degradation reduces the quality of landscapes related to sustenance and environmental sustainability. Across many landscapes, resid

Transformation of treeless depression wetlands in Central Europe over the last 100 years: Włoszczowa Basin (southern Poland) case study

“…Identifying a single key factor responsible for changes in wetland ecosystems is difficult (Berezowski et al, 2018). As in the case of landscapes, changes occurring at the level of ecosystems are the result of the interaction of natural factors such as climate and anthropogenic factors such as management and development, which alter together with socioeconomic and political changes (Hudson & Zorn, 2019). In addition, alterations occurring in different periods, overlap (Gregory, 2010), and the effects of past development may have an impact on contemporary processes, making it difficult to identify their causes (Berezowski et al, 2018).…”