We were glad to read Pooley's (2013) comments on our earlier paper (Szabó & Hédl 2011) and welcome this opportunity to further discuss some important issues we could not elaborate on in that paper. Although we concur with Pooley on many points, let us start with a clarification. It may be generally true that "previous calls for cooperation between historians and conservation scientists published in ecological and conservation journals have been made by nonhistorians" (Pooley 2013), but it is certainly not true in our case. One of us is a historian with a PhD in medieval studies, the other is a vegetation ecologist. We believe our work benefited from fruitful discussions between two authorswho saw the topic from often opposing perspectives. Nonetheless, we have our doubts whether disciplinary categorization is constructive when used as the basis for evaluating an individual researcher's point of view.
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