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Anthropogenic ("human" + "generating") is an adjective that may refer to: Anthropogeny, the study of the origins of humanity; Anthropogenic may also refer to things that have been generated by humans, as follows: Human impact on the environment, i.e. anthropogenic impact on the environment Anthropogenic biome
Anthropogenic biomes, also known as anthromes, human biomes or intensive land-use biome, describe the terrestrial biosphere in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units defined by global patterns of sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems. Anthromes are generally composed of heterogeneous mosaics of different ...
The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. The term was first used in the technical sense by Russian geologist Alexey Pavlov, and it was first used in English by British ecologist Arthur Tansley in reference to human influences on climax plant communities. [20]
Anthropocene is a term that has been used to refer to the period of time during which humanity has become a planetary force of change.It appears in scientific and social discourse, especially with respect to accelerating geophysical and biochemical changes that characterize the 20th and 21st centuries on Earth.
The definition by UNDRR states: "Hazards may be natural, anthropogenic or socionatural in origin." [ 13 ] The socionatural hazards are those that are "associated with a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, including environmental degradation and climate change ".
An anthrosol (or anthropogenic soil) in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) [1] is a type of soil that has been formed or heavily modified due to long-term human activity, such as from irrigation, addition of organic waste or wet-field cultivation used to create paddy fields.
A homogenitus, anthropogenic or artificial cloud is a cloud induced by human activity. Although most clouds covering the sky have a purely natural origin, since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , the use of fossil fuels and water vapor and other gases emitted by nuclear, thermal and geothermal power plants yield significant ...
Anthropogenic heath habitats are a cultural landscape that can be found worldwide in locations as diverse as northern and western Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and New Guinea. These heaths were originally made or expanded by centuries of human clearance of the natural forest and woodland vegetation, by grazing and ...