In the 12, years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest that this anthropogenic land cover change influenced regional and global climate. However, the representation of past land use in earth IInteraction models is currently oversimplified. As a result, there are large uncertainties in the current understanding of the past and current state of the earth system. In order to improve representation of the variety and scale of impacts that past land use had on Ineraction earth system, a global effort is underway to aggregate and synthesize archaeological and historical evidence of land use systems. Here we present a simple, hierarchical classification of land use systems designed to be used with archaeological and historical data at a global scale and a schema of codes that identify land use practices common to a range of systems, both implemented in a geospatial database.
The classification scheme and database resulted from Environmental Interaction Of Mesopotamia extensive process of consultation with researchers worldwide.
Navigation menu
Our scheme is designed to deliver consistent, empirically robust data for the improvement of land use models, while simultaneously allowing for a comparative, detailed mapping of land use relevant to the needs Environmdntal historical scholars. To illustrate Environmental Interaction Of Mesopotamia benefits of the classification scheme and methods for mapping historical land use, we apply it to Mesopotamia and Arabia at 6 kya c. The scheme will be used to describe land use by the Past Global Changes PAGES LandCover6k working group, an international project comprised of archaeologists, historians, geographers, paleoecologists, and modelers. Beyond this, the scheme has a wide utility for creating a common language between research and policy communities, linking archaeologists with climate modelers, biodiversity conservation workers and initiatives. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Ibteractionwhich permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Having doubts about how to write your paper correctly?
A blank copy of the land use geodatabase with the land use classification programmed into it is available as a Supporting Continue reading file. Additional funding was provided by the University of Chicago, the University Environmental Interaction Of Mesopotamia Pennsylvania, and the many institutional and personal sources of support for travel and time that allowed the many participants in this project to contribute their expertise and enthusiasm Environmental Interaction Of Mesopotamia this critical effort. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Mesppotamia The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Land transformation has been the primary driving force of human alteration of terrestrial ecosystemsstrongly interacting with most other aspects of global environmental change …. Weindl et al. Although earth system models are often seen as tools for exploring the future, Interactiln rely in part on understandings of the past, including models of land cover change through time.]
I think, that you commit an error. Let's discuss it.