Sentences with phrase «altering land cover»

By altering land cover and land use, BCDR may therefore influence local climate directly, intensifying or counteracting the effects of atmospheric CO2 reduction in site - specific ways (Gibbard et al. 2005).

Humans impact the Earth System by extracting resources and returning waste and pollution to the system, and simultaneously altering land cover, fragmenting ecosystems, and reducing biodiversity.1

Since prehistoric times, humans have altered the land cover of the continents to suit their economic and cultural enterprises.

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We are altering the hydrological cycle and the texture of land cover.

They have also dramatically altered the natural land cover, and have pushed into the shadow of extinction an alarming proportion of the other 10 million or so species that share the planet and its resources.

Vegetation cover changes caused by land use can alter regional and global climate through both biogeochemical (emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols) and biogeophysical (albedo, evapotranspiration, and surface roughness) feedbacks with the atmosphere, with reverse effects following land abandonment, reforestation, and other vegetation recoveries (107).

The 2007 Fourth Assessment Report compiled by the IPCC (AR4) noted that «changes in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, land cover and solar radiation alter the energy balance of the climate system», and concluded that «increases in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations is very likely to have caused most of the increases in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century».

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) anticipates that changes to land cover and biodiversity caused by climate change, could force Indigenous people to «alter their traditional ecosystem management systems» and, in the extreme, «eventually lead to a loss of their traditional habitats and along with it their cultural heritage».