Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Figure 3. Understanding the linkages between historical and contemporary disturbances, extreme environmental gradients, and rapidly changing social systems will help determine historical, current, and future land-use patterns, and help to quantify and predict the resulting impacts on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem function.

From: 
At Coweeta LTER: Multidisciplinary Regional Study Reveals Key Factors of Land-use Change