期刊
ONE EARTH
卷 3, 期 3, 页码 371-382出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.009
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- Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship - NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Program [NNX17AG51G]
- MIUR Rita Levi Montalcini program
- NASA [NNX17AG51G, 1001779] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Human pressure mapping is important for understanding humanity's role in shaping Earth's patterns and processes. Our ability to map this influence has evolved, thanks to powerful computing, Earth-observing satellites, and new bottom-up census and crowd-sourced data. Here, we provide the latest temporally inter-comparable maps of the terrestrial human footprint and assessment of change in human pressure at global, biome, and ecoregional scales. In 2013, 42% of terrestrial Earth could be considered relatively free of direct anthropogenic disturbance, and 25% could be classed as wilderness'' (the least degraded end of the human footprint spectrum). Between 2000 and 2013, 1.9 million km(2)-an area the size of Mexico-of land relatively free of human disturbance became highly modified. The majority of this occurred within tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannah, and shrubland ecosystems, but the rainforests of Southeast Asia also underwent rapid modification. Our results show that humanity's footprint is eroding Earth's last intact ecosystems, and greater efforts are urgently needed to retain them.
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