Sentences with phrase «transformed vegetation structure»
Widespread agricultural land use by mid-Holocene is further evidenced by altered fire regimes that may have transformed vegetation structure and species composition across many regions, with woodland ecosystems from the Mediterranean to the Tropics increasingly recognized as the bio-cultural legacies of long histories of prior human use (50, 74, 78 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 84).
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The technique has transformed archaeology, giving scientists the ability to peer through dense vegetation and see long - hidden temples, boulevards, dikes and cityscapes — angular human - made structures that pop out of otherwise natural landscapes.