What's new about old fields? Land abandonment and ecosystem assembly.

By V. Cramer, Richard J. Hobbs, R. Standish. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions (2020, background): “…regeneration—also known as secondary succession, old-field succession, forest regrowth, spontaneous restoration or passive restoration—often leads to the development of a new forest system that gradually regains many properties of the previous forest ecosystem (Cramer et al 2008, Chazdon 2014).”
Restoring grassland biodiversity: Sowing low-diversity seed mixtures can lead to rapid favourable changes (2010, background): “Agricultural intensification and overproduction often leads to the abandonment of croplands in Europe and elsewhere (Ramankutty and Foley, 1999; Cramer et al., 2008).”
Cropland Abandonment in South African Smallholder Communal Lands: Land Cover Change (1950–2010) and Farmer Perceptions of Contributing Factors (2018, background): “To date, international studies have shown limited regeneration of abandoned farmland to a ‘historical undisturbed’ state (see reviews: [13,18,27]).”
Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown (2012, background): “Still, natural regeneration presents certain challenges that depend on the level of resilience of the land (154, 155) and potential conflicts with human populations (17).”
Trade-offs of European agricultural abandonment (2017, background): “While competition for farmland is globally on the rise, simultaneously the process of agricultural abandonment has shown an increased trend since the 1950s (Cramer et al., 2008).”
Low recruitment across life stages partly accounts for the slow colonization of forest herbs (2009, methodology): “data thus provide a useful test of the synthetic framework pro posed by Cramer et al. (2008) in which thresholds of dispersal and recruitment interacting with legacies from former land use are combined to explain community assembly following the abandonment of land.”
Solidago canadensis impacts on native plant and pollinator communities in different-aged old fields (2015, background): “…proportion of the grassland specialists in the invaded old fields underlines that if this invasive species is abundant, secondary succession slows down, or even halts at a prolonged earlier successional state (Cramer et al. 2008) instead of recovering towards semi-natural grassland vegetation.”
Regeneration of sandy old-fields in the forest steppe region of Hungary (2011, background): “On the other hand, changing land use may also be beneficial for biodiversity, if previously cultivated lands are abandoned and spontaneous or assisted regeneration of natural or semi-natural communities takes place (Cramer & Hobbs 2007; Cramer et al. 2008; Jackson & Sax 2009).”
Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees (2013, background): “, 2007; Knops and Tilman, 2000), and affects biodiversity (Cramer et al., 2008; MacDonald et al., 2000).”