Sentence examples for major human activities from inspiring English sources

When measured by extent and intensity, urbanization is one of the most homogenizing of all major human activities.

Major human activities which lead to hydrologic alterations include irrigation (from ground water mining and surface water diversion), deforestation, wetland filling or drainage, and new dam construction.

Major human activities (i.e., soil and water conservation measures) have attempted to combat with severe soil and water losses, with the most intensive activities emerging since the late of 1970s.

This study assesses, for the first time, the relative spatial extent of major human activities in the deep North East Atlantic, within and beyond Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) in the OSPAR maritime area of the North Atlantic (Figure 1), of which 8,517,010 km2 is deeper than 200 m, during the single year, 2005.

Using the available data we map and estimate the spatial extent of five major human activities in the North East Atlantic that impact the deep seafloor: submarine communication cables, marine scientific research, oil and gas industry, bottom trawling and the historical dumping of radioactive waste, munitions and chemical weapons.

"It's surprising that medicine has been the last major human activity to succumb to this, but now it's here and it promises to revolutionise healthcare".

Robotics in war is the most important change in major human activity dating back at least 5,000 years, according to P.W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank and the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.

Human intervention in the woodlands was indirectly reflected by distances to villages, tracks, roads, riverbeds, agricultural fields and major towns as human activities are concentrated there (own observations; Schneibel et al. 2013).

These habitat changes (edge effects) can also have a considerable impact on ecosystem processes such as carbon and water balance, which in turn have a major impact on human activities.

Comparison with reference lakes revealed major impact of human activities on TP and total N (TN and consequently on chlorophyll a (a-chl) and transparency in all other groups, especially agricultural lakes.

Second, it is now widely recognized that one of the major impacts of human activities on Earth's ecosystems is biotic and abiotic homogenization (McKinney and Lockwood 1999; Tilman et al. 2001; Olden et al. 2004; Foley et al. 2005; Ewers et al. 2009).