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No definitions of the word 'anthropogenic' please, I have already checked dictionaries.

2006-10-01 00:47:12 · 4 answers · asked by Batgirl182 2 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Anthropogenic refers to things derived from human activities, rather than from nature. So anthropogenic measurements would mean measuring things like the speed of a train rather than the speed of the wind, or the mass of a jeep rather than the mass of a boulder.

2006-10-01 00:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0 0

Ecotope mapping for high resolution ecological change measurement across anthropogenic landscapes

Ellis, Erle


This presentation will describe a standardized approach for high-resolution long-term ecological change measurements across densely populated anthropogenic landscapes. The approach is specifically designed for urban, suburban, and village landscapes and is based on the direct interpretation of high resolution (¡Ü1 m) imagery combined with groundtruthing in the field. The anthropogenic ecotope classification and mapping system characterizes all stable land use systems employed by local land managers in rural, suburban, and urban landscapes, so that data obtained directly from land managers can be integrated with ecological measurements to make spatially-explicit high resolution ecological change estimates across landscapes. The system effectively identified significant ecological changes between the 1940s/50s and the current time across 1 km2 sites in urban Baltimore (Watershed 263) and suburban Baltimore (Cub Hill). Standardized comparisons across sites demonstrated the role of environmental and economic constraints in modulating the ecological impacts of land use change. The relative strengths and weaknesses of ecotope mapping relative to traditional land use/land cover mapping such as the NLCD system will be described, along with strategies for integrating high-resolution site-based measurements with regional data to make regional and global change estimates.
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2006-10-01 07:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by sarayu 7 · 0 0

anthropogenic means effects of humanity.

So a measure of our effects on the environment would be a AM.

2006-10-01 07:55:01 · answer #3 · answered by Holden 5 · 0 0

type those words in at ask.com hope it will help you.

2006-10-01 07:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by Amy 4 · 0 0

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