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

Venue: PLOS ONE

Type: Article

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