Classifying human influences on terrestrial ecosystems
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Human activity is affecting every ecosystem on Earth, with terrestrial biodiversity decreasing rapidly. influences materialize in the form of numerous, jointly acting factors, yet experimental study such joint impacts not well developed. We identify absence a systematic ordering system factors according to their properties (traits) as an impediment progress and offer priori trait-based factor classification illustrate this point, starting at coarsest level physical, biological or chemical nature factors. Such classifications can serve communication science, but also be used heuristic tools develop questions formulate new hypotheses, predictors effects, which we explore here. hope that one proposed here help shift spotlight multitude anthropogenic changes ecosystems, unravel great number
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Global Change Biology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1365-2486', '1354-1013']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15577