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.
Many samples supported bacterial and fungal phylotypes indicative of known pathogenic taxa, together with common indicators of human presence.
Government, industry and academia have all generally accepted animal studies as indicators of human risk".
But as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment shows, of 65 global indicators of human impacts on biodiversity, only one – the extent of temperate forests – is improving.
The majority of the "bottom billion" of the world's population live in Africa, which, until buoyed by the recent commodity boom, had seen an absolute decline in most of its indicators of human development.
In Israel, gay soldiers and the relative openness of Tel Aviv are incomplete indicators of human rights — just as in America, the expansion of gay rights in some states does not offset human rights violations like mass incarceration.
Amphibians are good indicators of human impact, declining steadily worldwide.
These features could be amongst the strong indicators of human trafficking.
In addition, we have used indicators of human influence such as demographic pressure, quality of life and economic activity indicators.
Soil chemical elements are important parameters for soil origin diagnosis, and are sensitive indicators of human disturbance process.
Cooperation and association are relevant instruments of innovation of agricultural systems (Vilain 2008) and they are important indicators of human development in rural areas.
