anthropogenic change

collocation in English

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anthropogenic
adjective
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/ˌæn.θrə.pəˈdʒen.ɪk/us
/ˌæn.θrə.pəˈdʒen.ɪk/
caused by humans or ...
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change
noun
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/tʃeɪndʒ/us
/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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Can a better understanding of this process uncover characteristics of institutions that enhance capacity to respond toanthropogenicchange?
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Features such as streams or ponds may be naturally present in a habitat, but afteranthropogenicchangemost of them are destroyed.
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Problems in the simulation of clouds and upper tropospheric humidity, remain worrisome because the associated processes account for most of the uncertainty in climate model simulations ofanthropogenicchange.
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For others, their natural endowment has been diminished by more subtle anthropogenic changes to environmental processes.
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It is also a critical area for understanding the possible consequences of recent anthropogenic changes in the tropics, namely deforestation, forest fragmentation and global climatic change.
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Other human-caused changes in the atmospheric carbon cycle are due to anthropogenic changes to carbon reservoirs.
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Anthropogenic changes in water velocity can affect its breeding cycle.
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Climate engineering is the deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry.
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Anthropogenic changes to acoustic environments have had perhaps the most significant impacts on species that rely on auditory cues for foraging and communication.
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Within the scope of these approaches, the field of geoengineering encompasses the deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry.
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