In the highlands of New Guinea, the development of agriculture as an indigenous innovation during the Early Holocene is considered to have resulted in rapid loss of forest cover, a decrease in forest biodiversity and increased land degradation over thousands of years. But how important is human ac...
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire used high-tech tools to more precisely view where these cleared sites were and how much lasting impact they had on the rainforest in the Amazon Basin in South America.TatianaG.CholevaGeorge
Specifically, building on a previous work23, we quantify in a consistent manner at pantropical scale: (1) the extent of forest degradation in 2022 taking into account edge effects; (2) the impact of different types of disturbance on forest structural characteristics and their persistence over ...
The common pattern of human influence on tropical rainforest is a ___ of the habitat into smaller patches. A.incorporationB.expansionC.fragmentationD.collaboration 点击查看答案&解析手机看题 你可能感兴趣的试题 单项选择题 Running for president is ___ demanding, emotionally draining, and physically t...
Both artificial interference and natural growth could lead to forest changes, in which the former one is abrupt, ephemeral, and intermittent compared to the later one. Therefore, we quantify the impact of artificial interferences (i.e., disturbances) by comparing the R/Ps before and after ...
impact that is seen by ecologists as an effectively irreversible change in a natural system – for example, extinction of a species or loss of a tropical rainforest, or the much earlier loss oftemperate forests– may offer apparently compensating gains at the time and in the locality; the ...
Like Lake Selina, the contemporary vegetation zone is a mix of climax rainforest and fire-promoted plant communities, including buttongrass plains, with abundant G. sphaerocephalus (Colhoun and Van de Geer, 1988) (Fig. 1b). The impact crater contains a ∼70-m-long continuous sequence of ...
Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of lake sediments from Anthony Island in the southern Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, reveal 1800 yr of relatively stable temperate rainforest vegetation. Cupressaceae (cedar) pollen percentages and accumulation rates decline about 1000 cal ...
We would like to thank the participants of the Pantropica 2016 workshop, funded and hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, for taking part in an international meeting devoted to the global archaeology of rainforest environments...
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