Sentence examples for plant exploitation from inspiring English sources

Plant macro-remains also helped to understand local plant exploitation and landscape evolution.

Klee, M., Zach, B. & Neumann, K. Four thousand years of plant exploitation in the Chad Basin of northeast Nigeria I: The archaeobotany of Kursakata.

This paper examines the environmental evidence used to investigate initial signs of plant exploitation and the transition to agriculture, as well as to understand the wider significance of past plants in a changing cultural landscape.

The record of past environmental change is constructed through detailed chronological control and stratigraphic correlation across the swamp, revealing evidence of early Holocene vegetation disturbance including short-term, patchy forest loss and burning considered indicative of plant exploitation.

The observations presented here can serve as a basis for use-wear analysts to design experiments in relation to plant exploitation by humans during the past, and to enlarge reference collections.

Pollen, phytolith and charcoal records from the archaeological wetland site of Kuk Swamp, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea spanning the period from <20,000 to 270 cal BP are compiled to reconstruct past vegetation and plant exploitation during the earliest to late phases of agricultural development.

These interpretations are based on archaeological evidence of stone tools for processing plants as well as botanical microfossil indicators of forest disturbance and plants exploitation and cultivation.

As noted at the onset of this document, among many other accomplishments, he pioneered marker-assisted selection in animal and plants via exploitation of linkage and LD relationships between markers and unknown quantitative trait loci.

Exploitation of medicinal plants using modern biotechnology in purification and separation of compounds, and in metabolic engineering where relative abundance of various phytochemicals can be influenced would result in optimum activity and safety.

They were part of the "Neolithic package": a set of innovations in plant and animal exploitation which facilitated the shift from hunter-gathers to early farming.

That we are now aware of a far richer, deeper, more diverse history of plant and animal exploitation right across the globe is thanks, in large part, to the contribution of David Harris, who has died aged 83.