The legacy of 20th Century landscape change on today's woodland carabid communities

Aim For many species, the effects of landscape change can involve a time‐lag and result in an extinction debt. The landscape matrix plays a vital role in supporting species populations. However, the importance of the historical composition and configuration of landscape mosaics has received little attention, with studies focusing on the effects of loss and fragmentation of single (focal) habitat over time. We investigated the importance of...