As the English, French, Dutch, and, to a lesser extent, the Danes colonized the smaller West Indian islands, these became plantation settlements, largely cultivated by blacks.
Creole languages, vernacular languages that developed in colonial European plantation settlements in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of contact between groups that spoke mutually unintelligible languages.
This phenomena might be due to the fact that most of our rural participants live in palm oil plantation settlements, in which the male participants would have a higher risk to be exposed to CHIK vectors due to plantation activities compared to urbanites.
Several plantations (settlements, in today's language) in 16th and 17th century Ireland failed because there were too few settlers.
Added to the landscape was the plantation (estate) settlement, typically a group of buildings consisting of the processing factory and storehouse, the labourers' quarters, and the manager's house.
Change from natural habitat (pastureland, forestland and woodland) to other land uses (cultivated, plantation and settlement lands) is likely to have a large impact on biodiversity, land degradation and beyond.
In their assessments of land-cover change in the rangelands of central Uganda, Zziwa et al. (2012) found that grassland conversion to other land use, especially crop, coniferous tree plantation and settlement, is greater than the rate of grassland expansion, and if not addressed, it may result in the elimination of grasslands in the near future.
Shows boundaries, roads, forests, plantations and settlements.
Because of difficult terrain, Petén long has avoided European-style plantations and settlements.
It now lives in isolated populations, such as in Harapan, its habitat having been drastically reduced by clearings for agriculture, plantations and settlements.
