Sentence examples for modification by humans from inspiring English sources

We predicted stem densities under conditions of relatively little modification by humans since European settlement from these models by holding the significant explanatory variables representing modification by humans at minimum observed values.

Other contributing factors could be the very high seismicity of the area, which may cause rapid dry fluidized loess flows, and landscape modification by humans.

We defined the reference state as variation in native vegetation exhibiting relatively little evidence of modification by humans since European settlement.

The methodology we present is applicable in many forests where the objective is to predict forest structure under conditions of relatively little modification by humans.

In this study we predicted numbers of trees by diameter class for several widespread forest and woodland types in south-eastern Australia under conditions of relatively little modification by humans since European settlement.

For example, in the white box vegetation alliance, flat parts of the landscape supported 5 times the number of large trees (>80 cm DBH) found on upper slopes under conditions of relatively little modification by humans since European settlement.

Land use/land cover change (LULCC) refers to the earth's territorial surface modification by human activities (Anderson et al. 1976; Meyer and Turner 1992; Lu et al. 2004; Muriuki et al. 2011; Ayalew et al. 2012).

To circumvent this complexity, we studied here the minimal requirements for functionally relevant p53 post-translational modifications by expressing human p53 together with its best characterized modifier Mdm2 in budding yeast.

Cryptic drivers contributing to biodiversity loss are introgressive hybridization and reverse speciation (Seehausen 2006) associated with habitat modifications and species translocations by humans (Allendorf et al. 2001).

It seems most likely that O. patagonica has always existed somewhere in the eastern Atlantic and has recently become invasive in the Mediterranean, expanding in local regions in response to environmental change [ 51], likely mediated by human-modifications of coastal habitats [ 32, 34].

"Given the speed with which the genome engineering field is evolving, the Napa meeting concluded that there is an urgent need for open discussion of the merits and risks of human genome modification by a broad cohort of scientists, clinicians, social scientists, the general public, and relevant public entities and interest groups," stated the authors of the article summarizing the conference.