Toward a Global Classification of Coastal Anthromes
Toward a Global Classification of Coastal Anthromes
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DOI：
10.3390/land6010013
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发表时间：
2017-02
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3.9
通讯作者：
E. Lazarus
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作者：
E. Lazarus
鉴于无可争议的证据表明，人类是地球上环境变化的最强大的推动者，研究已开始承认人类的存在和活动，并将其纳入对世界生物群落的最新描述，即“人类”。迄今为止，人类的分类系统仅限于陆地生物圈。在这里，我提出了一个考虑和沿海人类学的有效性的情况。地球上的每一个沿海环境都受到直接和间接的人类改造和干扰。尽管人类与沿海生态系统的互动具有遗产性、普遍性和普遍性，但沿海人类仍然缺乏正式的定义。根据陆地人类的原始论点和框架，我概述了一套沿海人类分类，与陆地和海洋对应。认识到沿海环境是复杂和日益脆弱的人类系统，是理解其现代动态的基本步骤，并通过扩展，实现其恢复能力的机会和限制。
Given incontrovertible evidence that humans are the most powerful agents of environmental change on the planet, research has begun to acknowledge and integrate human presence and activity into updated descriptions of the world’s biomes as “anthromes”. Thus far, a classification system for anthromes is limited to the terrestrial biosphere. Here, I present a case for the consideration and validity of coastal anthromes. Every coastal environment on Earth is subject to direct and indirect human modification and disturbance. Despite the legacy, ubiquity, and pervasiveness of human interactions with coastal ecosystems, coastal anthromes still lack formal definition. Following the original argument and framework for terrestrial anthromes, I outline a set of coastal anthrome classifications that dovetail with terrestrial and marine counterparts. Recognising coastal environments as complex and increasingly vulnerable anthropogenic systems is a fundamental step toward understanding their modern dynamics—and, by extension, realising opportunities for and limits to their resilience.