Sentence examples for anthropogenic replacement from inspiring English sources
Clearcutting, or complete logging of areas, is commonly used in the boreal landscape by commercial forestry and may be viewed as an anthropogenic replacement for, or emulation of, fire disturbance (e.g. McRae et al., 2001; Paillet et al., 2010), but not without limitation and/or criticism in implementation (e.g. Bergeron et al., 2002; Seymour et al., 2002).
Anthropogenic disturbances cause biotic homogenization through the replacement of specialist species with generalists.
Anthropogenic alteration of forests, through logging or replacement of native logged forest by plantation (which generally uses introduced species), may have various effects on alpha and beta diversity of the plants or animals being studied, but most of the studies suggest a decline in both measures of diversity3,5,9.
A loss or replacement of bioturbators in stream ecosystems due to anthropogenic habitat alterations is expected to result in shifts in microbial community compositions, with effects on nutrient fluxes, pollutant degradation and benthic food webs.
The conservation and replacement of nesting cavities depend critically on cavity persistence, which is predicted to decline with increasing anthropogenic impact to the habitat, and to vary according to characteristics of trees and excavators.
"These are not anthropogenic barbecues".
"It could be anthropogenic.
Cities produce 70% of anthropogenic global carbon dioxide emissions.
The two debate the science of anthropogenic climate change.
