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Historians are from Venus, Ecologists are from Mars

Previous calls for cooperation between historians and conservation scientists published in ecological and conservation journals have been made by nonhistorians. This Comment on Szabó and Hédl's (2011), paper "Advancing the Integration of History and Ecology for Conservation," provides the other half of the sought-for antiphonal duet from the perspective of an environmental historian. Most calls for interdisciplinary research frame their discussions in terms of problems to be overcome. They elaborate reasons for the failure of this union to be consummated, and this shapes discussions of what is to be done. In their welcome article, Szabó and Hédl follow this route, noting contrasting tendencies toward generality versus particularity for ecologists and historians, respectively, and mismatches in scale and precision of data …

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