Authors: Scott Mooney; Vanessa Navarrete; Marc Vander Linden; Giulio Lucarini; Matthew J. Hannaford; Paul Lane; Hajnalka Herold; Andrew Sluyter; Julian Laabs; Jennifer Bates; Jan Kolář; Eduardo Góes Neves; Rob Marchant; Stefano Biagetti; Andrew M. Bauer; Laura Popova; Marco Madella; Rosie R. Bishop; Leanne N. Phelps; Dagmar Dreslerová; Meriel McClatchie; Lynn Welton; Thomas Foster; Dragana Filipović; Manjil Hazarika; Kathleen D. Morrison; Pablo Cruz; Thembi Russell; Kees Klein Goldewijk; Marek Nowak; Cameron Petrie; Welmoed A. Out; Dan Lawrence; Emmanuel Ndiema; Oliver Boles; Alice Yao; Marco Zanon; Jed O. Kaplan; Gerrit L. Dusseldorp; Eduardo Kazuo Tamanaha; Elizabeth Kyazike; Erle C. Ellis; Francis E. Mayle; Carla Lancelotti; Krista Lewis; Nicola Whitehouse; Amy Styring; Zsolt Pinke; Manuel Arroyo-Kalin; Evert Thomas; Magdalena Moskal-del Hoyo; Stefania Merlo; Stéphen Rostain; Marie-José Gaillard; Umberto Lombardo; Selvakumar Veerasamy; Andrea Kay; Sandy P. Harrison; Emily Hammer; Madeleine McLeester; Austin Chad Hill; Johanna Hilpert; Phillip Buckland; Ferran Antolín

Venue: PLOS ONE

Type: Publication

Abstract: In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest that this anthropogenic land cover change influenced regional and global climate. However, the representation of past land use in earth system models is currently oversimplified. As a result, there are large uncertainties in the current understanding of the past and current state of the earth system. In order to improve represent... (read more)

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662