The phrase "altered land" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe land that has been changed or modified in some way, often due to human activity or natural processes.
Example: "The construction of the new highway has significantly transformed the altered land surrounding the area."
Alternatives: "modified land" or "changed terrain".
These climate change impacts are in part due to how we have altered land use.
Although it looked primeval, it was altered land: this was where the river had flowed, uninterrupted, for thousands of years.
The first Statute of Westminster (1275) made jury trial compulsory in criminal cases and altered land law.
The amount of human altered land surface within a watershed has long been known to influence the biota of receiving streams and waterways.
The conversion of wetlands and its associated habitat for farming, residential development and commercial purposes has led to many small disconnected patches of native vegetation surrounded by generally inhospitable human altered land uses.
Because of their high salt tolerance, black mangroves are often among the first species to colonize mud and sandbanks flooded by seawater, but an increase in coastal development and altered land use has led to a decline in the populations of all Avicennia species, with several listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
In the present study, excessive flooding resulting from altered land-use activities increased mortality in wetland tree communities.
Even if a site is indeed representative of its river reach at the time of site selection, this representativeness might not endure because of changing riparian conditions, altered land-use in the catchment, water abstraction and effluent discharges.
Friedberg is convinced that climate change has the potential to alter land values dramatically, and soon.
It is also the pump-primer for altering land use, the enabler of economic evolution and the catalyst for social landscape shifts.
And it will also provide insight into ways to alter land management practices to minimize the amount of CO2 released from soil.
