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The Human Footprint represents observable human pressures: reply to Kennedy et al.

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Kennedy et al. (2019) presents a new map of cumulative human pressures across Earth's non-Antarctic land areas, called the Human Modification (HM) map. The paper builds off previous efforts to… Click to show full abstract

Kennedy et al. (2019) presents a new map of cumulative human pressures across Earth's non-Antarctic land areas, called the Human Modification (HM) map. The paper builds off previous efforts to map the ecology of the Anthropocene (Ellis and Ramankutty 2007) and identify Earth's last wild places (Sanderson et al. 2002), yet paints a different picture of the state of the terrestrial planet and opportunities for conservation.

Keywords: pressures reply; human footprint; observable human; represents observable; human pressures; footprint represents

Journal Title: Global change biology
Year Published: 2019

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