Human-food feedback in tropical forests
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Increasing human dominance of tropical forests.
Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their health and the provision of important ecosystem functions and services. Impacts started with hunting and millennia-old megafaunal extinctions (phase I), continuing via low-intensity shifting cultivation (phase II...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.abh1806