Spatio-temporal analysis of the human footprint in South Ecuador: Influence of human pressure on ecosystems and effectiveness of protected areas
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.10.007
Abstract: Abstract Human influence and its impacts are perceptible in all ecosystems resulting in land transformation, changes in global biogeochemistry, climate change, and loss of biological diversity. Mapping the spatial and temporal patterns of human influence… read more here.
Keywords: human footprint; south ecuador; effectiveness protected; influence ... See more keywords
Topography and human pressure in mountain ranges alter expected species responses to climate change
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15881-x
Abstract: Climate change is leading to widespread elevational shifts thought to increase species extinction risk in mountains. We integrate digital elevation models with a metric of human pressure to examine changes in the amount of intact… read more here.
Keywords: topography; human pressure; climate change; mountain ... See more keywords
Species richness response to human pressure hides important assemblage transformations
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2107361119
Abstract: Significance Human activities are causing biodiversity loss, but there is still strong debate on their effect on species richness. Here, I propose a unification of five trajectories of species richness response to increasing human pressure… read more here.
Keywords: human pressure; species richness; richness response; assemblage transformations ... See more keywords
The signature of human pressure history on the biogeography of body mass in tetrapods
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DOI: 10.1111/geb.12612
Abstract: Aim Examining the biogeography of body size is crucial for understanding how animal communities are assembled and maintained. In tetrapods, body size varies predictably with temperature, moisture, productivity seasonality and topographical complexity. Although millennial-scale human… read more here.
Keywords: human pressure; body mass; history; body ... See more keywords
One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure
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DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9565
Abstract: Protected yet pressured Protected areas are increasingly recognized as an essential way to safeguard biodiversity. Although the percentage of land included in the global protected area network has increased from 9 to 15%, Jones et… read more here.
Keywords: protected areas; global protected; protected land; human pressure ... See more keywords
Reducing human pressure on farmland could rescue China’s declining wintering geese
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DOI: 10.1186/s40462-020-00220-y
Abstract: Background While goose populations worldwide benefit from food provided by farmland, China’s threatened wintering goose populations have failed to capitalize on farmland. It has been proposed that, due to an exceptionally intense human pressure on… read more here.
Keywords: farmland; wintering geese; human pressure; food ... See more keywords
Global-scale human pressure evolution imprints on sustainability of river systems
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DOI: 10.5194/hess-23-3933-2019
Abstract: Abstract. Human pressures on river systems pose a major threat to the sustainable development of human societies in the twenty-first century. Previous studies showed that a large part of global river systems was already exposed… read more here.
Keywords: human pressure; sustainability river; river; river systems ... See more keywords