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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Human influence"”.
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Seasonal hydrologic dynamics under changing climate, land use-land cover and human influence
… with the land use-land cover changes (LULCC) and human impacts significantly modify the hydrologic flow regime of the river basins, affecting water resources and environment from regional to global scale. Aided by satellite data, modeling and understanding of the interactions between physical and …
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Analysis of Human Influence on Drought Conditions in the Upper Colorado River Basin (Texas)
… attributed to climatic factors. However, humans constantly alter hydrologic systems through manipulating and consuming water, which can also cause drought. However, human influence on drought, outside of influences on warming-driven climate change, is rarely studied. Here, the upper …
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Analysis of seasonal variation in dietary composition and behaviour of wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in two habitats of different human influence around windhoek, central Namibia
… the knowledge gap and obtain insight into the influence humans have on the ecology of these primates around the city of Windhoek. The study investigated the activity budget and diet of the baboons using data collected from two contrasting habitats (Dobra and farm Krumhuk) that are influenced by …
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Contribution of anthropogenic climate change to the magnitude of extreme rainfall events and associated synoptic conditions during recent flooding in Kenya
… most noticeable and damaging manifestations of human-induced climate change. The Greater Horn of Africa has experienced a number of extreme weather and seasonal climate events over the past two decades. While droughts have predominated, several heavy precipitation events with devastating impacts …
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Digital documentation for integrated hazard assessment and sustainable management at dynamic natural heritage sites : the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site
… features, but it also predisposes them to human influence from schemes which interfere with their natural dynamism (SNH, 2014). It also makes the sustainable management of natural heritage sites extremely challenging, particularly in the face of potential climate fluctuations, which in …
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Memory and Intuition: An Uncovering of Sensibilities
… spatial drawings, architecture's possible influence is understood at a slower pace. Through layered colored pencil drawings, my work attempts to depict human influence and its enhancement on the natural world surrounding it.
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The place of international law and relevant bodies in addressing climate change displacement – the move towards cooperation
… Report states ‘it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’ Throughout climate change science, literature, negotiations and debates run a golden threat: The effects of climate change will result in grave …
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Development and Application of a Classification System for Undisturbed and Disturbed Tropical Montane Forests Based on Vegetation Structure
… Secondary ravine forest, Ravine forest under human influence, Primary ravine forest at lower altitude, Primary ravine forest at higher altitude, Microphyll ridge forest, Mesophyll ridge forest, Macrophyll ridge forest, and megaphyll ridge forest. Two forest types were investigated outside the …
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Algorithmic Meta-Creativity
… a creative or non-creative output. Creativity in humans needs to be interpreted differently to machines. Humans and machines differ in many ways, we have different ‘brains/memory’, ‘thinking processes/software’ and ‘bodies/hardware’. Often creative output by machines is judged in human terms. …
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Microbial Source Tracking of Bacteroides to Identify Human and Bovine Fecal Loading in McDaniel Lake
… Increased fecal waste may also be due to direct human influence. This fecal loading may lead to eutrophication and poses health hazards to humans. By determining the source of fecal pollution, practices can be implemented to reduce the amount entering waterways. Bacteroides sp. have previously …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… of an otherworldly personage (or Visitant) to a human recipient (or Visited), represents a highly widespread and cross-generic literary motif throughout the Late Middle Ages. Although previous studies have considered the cultural origins, taxonomic limitations and contextual import of select …
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Determining land use change and desertification in China using remote sensing data
… conditions in arid or semiarid areas due to human influence or to climatic change, affects most arable land in arid and semi-arid China. This project provides an analysis of desertification in northeastern arid and semi-arid China to determine its spatial distribution, severity, and causes. …
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Changing Relationship Between Temperature and Pathogen Growth on Bats with White-nose Syndrome
… (EID) pose significant threats to biodiversity. Human influence over the environment has increased opportunities for the introduction of novel pathogens to naïve hosts, potentially leading to host extinction. Understanding mechanisms of host persistence is critical for effectively conserving …
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Wilderness And Aesthetic Values In The Antarctic
… being modified only for those areas in which human influence is visible. In order to understand 'aesthetic values', interpretations given to landscape are considered, before examining the techniques developed in the United Kingdom for landscape assessment, and those used in the United States …
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Composição da avifauna em uma parcela de vegetação perturbada na Baixada, em Majé, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
… dos Órgãos, and which has suffered greatly from human influence,126 species of birds were found from 1975 to 1984. About 40 percent of these most likely do not nest regularly in the area. Some are occasional visitors; others are seasonal, coming down from the nearby mountain slopes mainly in …
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of the terrestrial carbon cycle : assimilation of two decades of optical satellite data into a process-based global vegetation model
… reduction in vegetation cover, consideration of human influence and agricultural areas, an improved seasonality, changes in vegetation distribution and species composition. This study presents a way to assess terrestrial carbon fluxes and elucidates the processes contributing to interannual …
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Land conversion in Amazonia and Northern South America : influences on regional hydrology and ecosystem response
… present day vegetation condition that includes human deforestation and land-conversion, the other is an estimate of the potential structure and composition of the region without human influence. Model output is assessed for consistent and significant differences in hydrometeorology. Locations …
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Assessment of Watershed Condition and Vulnerability to Forecasted Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in the Northwestern Great Plains of Western South Dakota
… in the Dense Clay Prairie had relatively little human influence and subsequently scored the highest (median = 88). Watersheds in the agriculturally dominated Missouri Plateau scored the lowest (median = 65). This area was classified as a restoration priority because there was limited potential …
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Late Quaternary vegetation history of Craven, Yorkshire Dales.
… to the present day and all show signs of being influenced by changes in their arboreal structure at some time, although no two sites have exactly the same vegetation communities until around 5000 BP when the tree canopy is opened to allow an open grassland to dominate. The results indicate the …
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Attribution-based parametric insurance: towards affordable premiums
… probability of drought events has changed due to human influence on the climate system and translates the impacts into actual costs. To quantify this change, global climate models consisting of both factual and counterfactual world (with and without human forcing of climate, respectively) …
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