Sentences with phrase «predict human land»
«Using just those two factors, climate and soils, we were able to predict human land use fairly reliably.»
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
The computers will then «learn» what kind of land cover, what timing pattern of greening and what human densities best predict bird presence, and generate a million more simulated observations for each species: points where it is predicted to be either present or absent at different times throughout the year.
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.
Beck is careful to note that his relatively simple model failed to correctly predict present land uses up to one - third of the time, suggesting history and culture do influence how humans use the land.
As for models predicting land use changes, this is in the realm of human choice, so hardly a modeling issue.
As for models predicting land use changes, this is in the realm of human choice, so hardly a modeling issue.