Sentences with phrase «human land use»

Their analysis demonstrates the importance of combining transparency for stakeholders and strict enforcement for species conservation in efforts to facilitate species persistence in the face of human land use.

As the temporal scale is extended, the development of dynamic vegetation models, which respond to climate and human land use as well as other changes, is a central issue.

Then, they calculated how well those variables predicted four common modes of human land use in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia: farming, sedentary animal husbandry, nomadic wandering, and hunting and gathering.

Instead, we need to intensify agriculture and other human land uses in existing areas as much as possible, and encourage as an environmental boon the growth of the world's major cities that already successfully concentrate today's enormous human population onto only a tiny proportion of the world's land.

But accurately measuring the natural rate of erosion for a landscape — and, therefore, how much human land use has accelerated this rate — has been a devilishly hard task for geologists.

In the mid-1980s David Wilcove investigated the effects of human land use on songbirds.

While understanding causes and effects of megafaunal extinctions will require a deeper knowledge of climate change and prehistoric human land use chronologies, everyone agrees that they had major impacts on plant communities.

«Using just those two factors, climate and soils, we were able to predict human land use fairly reliably.»

We tend to think of the overuse of natural resources, climatic instability, and large - scale human land use as quintessentially modern day problems.

«The abundance and number of spider species is negatively affected by the impact of many human land uses, such as habitat fragmentation, fire and pesticides», Samuel Prieto - Benítez and Marcos Méndez, researchers at the URJC Biodiversity and Conservation Department, tell SINC.

And that creates a key conservation challenge: making sure that human land use doesn't sever the habitat connections needed by wildlife.»

Since the characteristics of Earth's climate in the absence of cities, agriculture, and other human land uses are unknown, comparing the dynamics of the present Earth - atmosphere system with that of preurban and preagricultural times is very difficult.

Additionally, the researchers» detailed field data make clear that the land sinking around Washington is not primarily driven by human influence, such as groundwater withdrawals, but instead is a long - term geological process that will continue unabated for tens of thousands of years, independent from human land use or climate change.

Joseph Poore highlighted vast reductions in human land use as yet another clear and positive benefit of diet change (12...

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

That human land use destroys natural ecosystems is an oft - cited assumption in conservation, but ecologists have discovered that instead, traditional ranching techniques in the African savanna enhance the local abundance of wild, native animals.

Cochrane, M. A. & Barber, C. P. Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon.

The four main ways are human land use, industrial agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl.

He uses tree - ring records in combination with other natural archives and documentary sources to reconstruct the histories of fire, insect outbreaks, human land uses, and climate.

Soils are the largest single terrestrial source of carbon dioxide (CO2), but these emissions are highly sensitive to a range of factors associated with climate change and human land use (1).

While this research has been underway, GFDL scientists have also embarked on extensive development of the land surface model, including integrated and detailed treatment of surface and groundwater hydrology as well as dynamic vegetation including the carbon cycle and human land use / alteration.

Inconclusive interpretations of vegetation dynamics in the Sahel may reflect complex combined effects of human land use and climate variability on arid environments (Rasmussen et al., 2001).

The central question at issue is the magnitude of the albedo forcing from changes in human land use.

Major waves of urbanization and dam construction, as well as poaching, overgrazing and overfishing, pollution, and excessive irrigation, threaten to destroy species and ecosystems that have survived 10,000 years of human land use, according to the paper, which was published last week in the December issue of Biological Conservation following an eight - year research process.