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ECOLOGISTS REMAP THE BIOSPHERE TO INCLUDE HUMANS
Erle Ellis (UMBC) and Navin Ramankutty (McGill University) have released a new map of the biosphere based on the ecosystems formed by humans - a 21st century challenge to the classic images of Earth's wild ecosystems that appear in nearly every ecology and earth science textbook. Using global data from satellites and land management statistics, scientists have mapped a new system of "anthropogenic biomes" or "human biomes" that describe the biosphere as it exists today, the result of human reshaping of ecosystems.
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The work was published online
November 26, 2007 at:
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Encyclopedia of Earth
