The phrase "altered landscape" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a landscape that has been changed or modified, often due to human activity or natural events.
Example: "The altered landscape after the construction of the new highway was unrecognizable to the locals."
Alternatives: "transformed terrain" or "modified landscape".
But the science community now urgently needs to figure out how to respond to this altered landscape.
Two and a half years later, he had returned to a radically altered landscape, with an insurgency capable of mounting an average of seventy attacks each day.
Tornadoes touched down in the towns of Cleburne and Millsap and across the region around Dallas and Fort Worth, leaving damaged homes and an altered landscape.
But that fact has not placated residents, some of whom say they are being forced to accept a radically altered landscape in addition to the temporary inconvenience of living near twin construction sites.
THE newly altered landscape is precisely what makes Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's recent promise to pull American soldiers out of Balkan peacekeeping duties so wrongheaded, says Ivo Daalder, a Balkans expert and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
General Mills faces a risk in creating a new cereal fortified with beta-carotene and vitamin E. But it also faces the risk that such a segment may be a precursor to a larger trend that, if ignored, might generate a strategically altered landscape with a first-mover competitor holding a considerable advantage.
There was no evidence that fine-scale dispersal limitation affected succession, in part because of the effects of resprouting, but it is possible that past human activities have altered landscape-scale patterns of commercially valuable species such that seed and sprout sources for advance regeneration may have been absent at the time of the most recent clearcutting.
The history of painting is a history of vanished and altered landscapes.
What the artist Meike Nixdorf's digitally altered landscapes teach us about our changeable planet.
Primary forests have a greater carbon and biodiversity value, while secondary forests offer greater flexibility for managing altered landscapes to accommodate both ecosystem health and human well-being.
In addition, there are the untold billions of dollars in personal property damage, and the unquantifiable costs of altered landscapes, lost historic trees, and ruined personal artifacts.
