It is necessary to control the state of the marine environment. The influence of polluting factors and the response of the oceanic biota as a whole to them is to be evaluated on the basis of a complex approach. The future of the ocean depends upon
Assessing the effect of environmental and anthropogenicfactors on land-cover diversity in Mediterranean mountain environment
This study assesses the factors that influence land-cover diversity, including the specific contributions of environmental and anthropogenic forces in determining landscape diversity (spatial variability in climate, lithological variations and human
diversity was divided into environmental and human-influenced fractions, and generalized additive models within a GIS framework were used to evaluate the effects of environmental and anthropogenicfactors.
or anthropogenicfactors. It is stressed that an indicative value for a soil is most often used in diagnostic the state of the natural environment, in the palaeogeographie reconstruction there of, in determining a habitat's resistance to anthropogenicfactors
factor, lithological factor, deglaciation, marine transgression and anthropogenic impact. In reality the changes in the channel pattern depend on the combination of various factors. - (DG)
The A. describes the diversity of existing river channels on the European territory and their evolution during last 18 ka BP. He discuss the role of various factors starting from climatic changes influencing the hydrological regime, the tectonic
The factors influencing surface denudation by meltwater are bedrock and soils| weather| relief/slope conditions, exposure| anthropogenic activity. Landforms are linked to the combination of geomorphic processes. (DLO).
Assessment of the effects of biophysical and anthropogenicfactors on woody plant encroachment in dense and sparse mountain grasslands based on remote sensing data
biophysical and anthropogenicfactors that were significantly correlated with woody plant encroachment of dense and sparse grasslands. Distance to the nearest woody plant habitat (shrub or forest) was the most strongly correlated factor with woody plant
encroachment of both types of grassland. This factor explained 69% and 71% of the variance in models of dense and sparse grasslands, respectively. The observed changes in land cover indicated that land cover has become more homogeneous.
. In anthropogenic relief one forms are present within other forms, which is connected with simultaneous influence of different anthropopression factors on the ground. As a result of coal mining, the research area underwent anthropogenic inversion of relief
The biggest relief transformations in the Wałbrzych Basin took place in 2 valleys : Wałbrzych and Kuźnice. The anthropogenic relief in that area contains forms typical of coal mining areas, such as : subsidence basins, dumps and settling ponds
. In the Wałbrzych Basin the transformations of natural relief features were more substantial than in the Kuźnice Basin. Anthropogenic relief of the research area has structural character - it relates to the structure of the substrate of the Wałbrzych Coal Basin
. In the years 1865-1997 the coal mining was the main relief factor in the researched area causing bigger changes in the relief features than the natural factors.
with the urban atmosphere over Berlin. In the third part are used an energy balance model and an one-dimensional boundary layer model to find out anthropogenicfactors for developing of urban heat islands. - (IH)
Starting from the physical fundamentals of the anthropogenic influence on meteorological processes, in the first part the interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere in towns and industrial areas are described. The second part deals
Influence of land use changes on landscape factors and characteristics of a Pliocene basin
The impact of human activities on the landscape and its factors : soil, water, vegetation, geomorphology, etc... reaches nowadays unprecedented levels. A quali/quantitative knowledge of landscape changes is needed to understand the anthropogenic
The AA. performed a content analysis on previous research that examined alpine treeline in national parks and classified each treeline study as anthropogenic, orographic/edaphic, or climatic according to the primary factor attributed to treeline
control. Results indicated that the 3 types of treeline are not uniformly studied. Climatic treeline is most commonly studied whereas anthropogenic and orographic/edaphic studies are often lacking. Furthermore, several western national parks are entirely
devoid of anthropogenic and orographic treeline research. More research in protected places is required to broaden the understanding of multiple treeline processes across both regional and worldwide extents.
Anthropogenically-triggered iron pan formation in some Irish soils over various time spans
Records in soils of environmental and anthropogenic changes
concentration into seams of differing age and degree of robustness, thickness and durability. The data refer to 5 locations in Ireland where addition of organic matter seems to be the only pedogenic factor likely to influence iron accumulation. In all instances
Anthropogenically accelerated mass movement, Kulu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
This paper examines the factors and processes responsible for triggering widespread mass movement and related damages in the Kulu Valley. Whereas some smaller events occurred in the early and middle part of this century, the recurrence and intensity
Stratigraphic architecture and alluvial geoarchaeology of an ephemeral fluvial infilling : Climatic versus anthropogenicfactors controlling the Holocene fluvial evolution in southeastern Spain drylands
flow punctuated by catastrophic flash floods are linked to a torrential fluvial regime. The climatic versus anthropogenicfactors affecting the fluvial development are discussed. Methodologically, the combination of fluvial palaeohydrology
The multi-annual variability of thermal, solar and cloudiness conditions in Cracow was examined from the point of view of the impact of natural and anthropogenicfactors on the climate change. The analysis concerned the annual air temperature range
(RAT) and daily ranges of air temperature (DAT) in january and july. Special attention has been paid to the climatic trends and changes of climatic continuity. Long-term changes of RAT reflect the impact of the circulation factors, these of DAT
Analysis of fire events and controlling factors in eastern India using spatial scan and multivariate statistics
statistic that quantifies hotspot areas of fire risk has been used to identify statistically significant fire clusters during the ten-year time period. To assess the causative factors of fires, topographic, vegetation, climatic, anthropogenic
and accessibility factors were used in a multivariate statistical framework. Results suggested a clear variation in hotspots of fire occurences among districts.
at the microscopic level, and 5) anthropogenic features related to Palaeoeskimo activities. The sediments from the 3 archaeological levels appear to have been very little influenced by anthropogenicfactors. The effects of natural processes on the sediments are more
) and cultural (anthropogenic) processes. Five groups of microfeatures were documented : 1) biopedological features (soil organic matter accumulation, mesofaunal and fungal activities), 2) transport-inherited features related to depositional processes
Changes in biota of the Aral region as a result of anthropogenic impacts between 1950 and 1990
salinization, which becomes main ecological factor at some coastal areas. At present the area affected by ecotonization of ecosystems in the Aral region is likely to exceed half of the total region's area.
Detecting climatic treelines in the Italian Alps : the influence of geomorphological factors and human impacts
and anthropogenicfactors in order to select sites appropriate to the study of climatic treeline dynamics. Moreover, the AA. want to check whether or not human disturbance has a different impact on treeline altitude in the study sites.