A General Introduction to Historical Ecology / Guillaume Decocq -- Historical Resurveys Reveal Causes of Long-term Ecological Change / Donald M Waller -- Getting the Right Answer Can Take a While: Long-term Ecological Field Studies as Historical Ecology / Frank S Gilliam -- Gaps and Cracks in Land Cover Mapping for Historical Ecology / Francesca Di Pietro, Roger Coly, Clémence Chaudron, Samuel Leturcq -- The Use of Repeat Photography in African Historical Ecology / Michael Timm Hoffman, Rick F Rohde -- Remote Sensing for Historical Ecology / Pierre-Alexis Herrault, David Sheeren -- Soil Archives: Where Soilscape History Meets Present-day Ecosystems / Boris Brasseur, Damien Ertlen, Vincent Robin -- Continuous and Nested Time in Historical Ecology: Application to Soil Studies / Damien Ertlen -- The Analysis of Relic Charcoal Kilns for the Assessment of Forest Trajectories / Vincent Robin, Alexa Dufraisse, Claudia Oliveira -- Ancient Trees and Botanical Indicators as Evidence for Change and Continuity in Landscape Evolution / Ian D Rotherham -- Towards a Methodological Framework for Investigating the Hidden History of Woodland Covers / Damien Marage, Catherine Fruchart, Isabelle Jouffroy-Bapicot, Olivier Girardclos, Vincent Balland -- The Gate to the Forest is in its History / Keith J Kirby -- Plant Assemblages and Ecosystem Functioning, a Legacy of Long-term Interactions with Large Herbivores / Christophe Baltzinger, Anders Mårell -- A Historical Ecology of the Compiègne Forest (N France) / Jérôme Buridant, Boris Brasseur, Hélène Horen, Emilie Gallet-Moron, Guillaume Decocq -- The Chestnut Orchards in the Bolognese Apennines: A Vanishing Socio-ecological Habitat / Giovanna Pezzi, Fabrizio Ferretti, Alberto Maltoni, Patrik Krebs, Marco Conedera, Giorgio Maresi -- Claudius' Coin in the Forest - Niche Construction and Strategies by Early Colonizers of Boreal Inlands in Central Scandinavia / Ove Eriksson, Karl-Johan Lindholm -- Recent History of Vegetation Changes in the Arctic / Antoine Becker-Scarpitta, Bastien Parisy, Tomas Roslin -- Reconstructing the Impact of Humans on Aotearoa New Zealand's Biodiversity / Nicolas J Rawlence, Alexander JF Verry, Karen Greig, Justin J Maxwell, Lara D Shepherd, Richard Walter -- Historical Ecology of the Coastal Aeolian Sedimentary Systems of the Canary Islands / Aarón Moisés Santana-Cordero, Antonio Ignacio Hernández-Cordero, Néstor Marrero-Rodríguez, Leví García-Romero, Elisabet Fernández-Cabrera, Carolina Peña-Alonso, Emma Pérez-Chacó -- Historical forest microclimates / Emiel de Lombaerde [and more] -- Causes and consequences of extinction debts: perspectives for historical ecology and biological conservation / Gregoire Blanchard, Francois Munoz -- Historical ecology for the past and the future: organizing at local and regional scales / Carole L. Crumley.