Goodbye to green?
Wherever ecologists look, from tropical forests to tundra, ecosystems are being transformed by human land use and climate change. Researchers at the University of Bergen have found fossil evidence that the rate of vegetation change began to accelerate between 4.6 and 2.8 thousand years ago and the acceleration is only increasing.
Their analysis is detailed in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6544/860
#sciencenews #ecology
Wherever ecologists look, from tropical forests to tundra, ecosystems are being transformed by human land use and climate change. Researchers at the University of Bergen have found fossil evidence that the rate of vegetation change began to accelerate between 4.6 and 2.8 thousand years ago and the acceleration is only increasing.
Their analysis is detailed in Science: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6544/860
#sciencenews #ecology
Science
Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years
Although much is known about the rapid environmental changes that have occurred since the Industrial Revolution, the patterns of change over the preceding millennia have been only patchily understood. Using a global set of >1100 fossil pollen records, Mottl…