Sentences with phrase «past human disturbances»

Given the very long lifespan of some Amazonian trees, with some living for more than 400 years, many forest plot sites may still be recovering from past human disturbances.

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Hence, a neuronal occasion in the human brain prehends the very minute disturbances of the electromagnetic field occasioned by other neuronal occasions in its immediate past, since these «minor» disturbances are absolutely essential for its own reaction (self - constitution).

In addition, they have also suffered from human disturbances and in the past, introduced black rats on Anacapa Island.

Sea level rise attributable to climate change (some is due to coastal subsidence due to human disturbance e.g. oil drilling) is more than half a foot over the past few decades.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.