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While the obvious way to detect human influences on a natural landscape is simply to compare descriptions of the landscape in the presence and absence of this influence, this approach has certain obvious limitations.
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Jordan, W.R. (1993). Restoration as a Technique for Identifying and Characterizing Human Influences on Ecosystems. In: McDonnell, M.J., Pickett, S.T.A. (eds) Humans as Components of Ecosystems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0905-8_21
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