The Amazonian forest is transformed by human influence
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There is almost no ecosystem on earth not affected by human activity, according to new research which suggests a general change in pollution, extinctions of fauna and disturbances in plant life push the planet in an unexplored territory.
“We have moved the system to conditions that we have never seen before,” says Alejandro Order At Aarhus University in Denmark.
Order and his colleagues have mapped the exhibition of the land with three key engines of the “novelty” of the ecosystem …