@article {KNZ001498,
	title = {Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world},
	journal = {BioScience},
	volume = {62},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {342 -353},
	abstract = {<p>The US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network enters its fourth decade with a distinguished record of achievement in ecological science. The value of long-term observations and experiments has never been more important for testing ecological theory and for addressing today\&$\#$39;s most difficult environmental challenges. The network\&$\#$39;s potential for tackling emergent continent-scale questions such as cryosphere loss and landscape change is becoming increasingly apparent on the basis of a capacity to combine long-term observations and experimental results with new observatory-based measurements, to study socioecological systems, to advance the use of environmental cyberinfrastructure, to promote environmental science literacy, and to engage with decisionmakers in framing major directions for research. The long-term context of network science, from understanding the past to forecasting the future, provides a valuable perspective for helping to solve many of the crucial environmental problems facing society today.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, coupled natural{\textendash}human systems, cyberinfrastructure, environmental education, environmental observatories, socioecological systems},
	doi = {10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6},
	url = {https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/4/342/243601},
	author = {Robertson, G.P. and Scott. L. Collins and D.R. Foster and Brokaw, N. and Ducklow, H.W. and Gragson, T.L. and Gries, C. and Hamilton, S.K. and McGuire, A.D. and Moore, J.C. and Stanley, E.H. and Waide, R.B. and Williams, M.W.}
}
@article {KNZ00845,
	title = {The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation},
	journal = {BioScience},
	volume = {53},
	year = {2003},
	pages = {77 -88},
	abstract = {Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate and essential subject of environmental science. Ecologists, conservationists, and natural resource policymakers now recognize that the legacies of land-use activities continue to influence ecosystem structure and function for decades or centuries{\textemdash}or even longer{\textemdash}after those activities have ceased. Consequently, recognition of these historical legacies adds explanatory power to our understanding of modern conditions at scales from organisms to the globe and reduces missteps in anticipating or managing for future conditions. As a result, environmental history emerges as an integral part of ecological science and conservation planning. By considering diverse ecological phenomena, ranging from biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles to ecosystem resilience to anthropogenic stress, and by examining terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in temperate to tropical biomes, this article demonstrates the ubiquity and importance of land-use legacies to environmental science and management.},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, conservation, disturbance, ecosystem process, Land use, natural resource management},
	doi = {10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0077:TIOLUL]2.0.CO;2},
	author = {D.R. Foster and Swanson, F. and Aber, J. and I. Burke and Brokaw, N. and Tilman, D. and Alan K. Knapp}
}
