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Intensively cultivated areas, such as Central European forests, have been heavily changed by human activities. It is quite possible that at least some of the forest decline symptoms of today are late consequences of inappropriate land use practices in the past. Centuries of forest pasture, litter raking, fire cultivation, charcoal production, deforestation of whole landscapes and reafforestation with...