Human Activities

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks. 
  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • Are the ghosts of nature's past haunting ecology today? 
  • Climate Change, Human Impacts, and Coastal Ecosystems in the Anthropocene. 
  • Conservation hotspots for marine turtle nesting in the United States based on coastal development. 
  • Consumer control of salt marshes driven by human disturbance. 
  • Decoupling the effects of logging and hunting on an afrotropical animal community. 
  • Designing a robust activity recognition framework for health and exergaming using wearable sensors. 
  • Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century. 
  • Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet. 
  • Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on indri (Indri indri) health in Madagascar. 
  • Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds. 
  • Evolutionary and ecological responses to anthropogenic climate change: update on anthropogenic climate change. 
  • Expiry dates. 
  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961-2017. 
  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. 
  • Habitat cascades: the conceptual context and global relevance of facilitation cascades via habitat formation and modification. 
  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. 
  • Identifying linkages between land use, geomorphology, and aquatic habitat in a mixed-use watershed. 
  • Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts. 
  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. 
  • Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. 
  • Natural and anthropogenic events influence the soundscapes of four bays on Hawaii Island. 
  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change. 
  • Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants. 
  • Regional management units for marine turtles: a novel framework for prioritizing conservation and research across multiple scales. 
  • Seafood prices reveal impacts of a major ecological disturbance. 
  • Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium. 
  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. 
  • The Fate of the World's Plants. 
  • The Snail's Charm. 
  • The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science, Duke Science & Society