Essays about: "Jörgen Olofsson"

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  1. 1. Effects of human land-use on the global carbon cycle during the last 6000 years

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Jörgen Olofsson; [2006]
    Keywords : dynamic global vegetation model DGVM ; human land-use; holocen; kolcykeln; jordbruk; avskogning; markanvändning; dynamisk global vegetationsmodell DGVM ; deforestation; agriculture; carbon cycle; holocene; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Humanity has become a major actor within the Earth system, particularly through transforming large parts of the land surface and by altering the gaseous composition of the atmosphere. Deforestation for agricultural purposes started thousands of years ago, which might have resulted in a detectable human influence on climate much earlier than the industrial revolution. READ MORE