Sentence examples for indicator of human from inspiring English sources

Five independent factors were considered: park size, isolation, density of potential corridors, vegetation structure, and pedestrian rate as an indicator of human disturbance within parks.

As a generalised indicator of human activity across the whole highlands, Sum of the Calibrated Probability Distributions (SCPDs) suggest changes in population dynamics based on 245 AMS 14C radiocarbon dates (Fig. 2; Supplementary Tables S1 and S2).

For example, in September 2010, coliform — an indicator of human and animal waste – in the Ganges at Allahabad, where millions come each year to immerse themselves, averaged 3,000 times the acceptable level for bathing.

Now, Bangladesh has become a standard for others to live up to.As our briefing points out (see article), in the past 20 years Bangladesh has made extraordinary improvements in almost every indicator of human welfare.

To evaluate the possible use of enteric viruses as an improved indicator of human sewage contamination in recreational waters for enhanced health risk assessment, human norovirus (huNoV) was tested as a model in this study.

Consequently, our method may provide a good indicator of human presence and land-use activities for mountainous areas where paleoenvironmental records from bogs, lakes, and archaeological sites are limited.

Because climate synopses compiled from instrumental records cannot distinguish underlying natural increases in storminess from anthropogenic effects, detected increases in contemporary storminess may not be a reliable indicator of human-induced climate change.

If the Flores skeleton is evidence of the kind of evolutionary size change more associated with animals such as rats and elephants, this, says Brown "is a clear indicator" of human-like creatures "behaving like all other mammals in terms of their interactions with the environment".

Because the movements of people, cars and trucks also increase the probability of moving infected beetles or infested wood, we carefully investigated the effect of the human population density as an indicator of human-mediated dispersal risk.

Some also distinguished how many species were endemic, an indicator of how unique their biota was and enumerated alien species, an indicator of human-mediated disturbance to their ecosystems.

Most indices also incorporate (often arbitrarily) indicators of human health and economic performance, so the emphasis on the environmental component per se is diluted or confounded.