anthropogenic
/ˌanθrəpəˈdʒɛnɪk
/adjective
(Chiefly of environmental pollution and pollutants) originating in human activity: anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide...
- Lakes are also excellent settings for studying the responses of ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic environmental change on human timescales.
- Of course, there are many well-known cases where pollution is caused by anthropogenic emissions of chemicals.
- While I would like to believe that there are pristine places on this planet where life has not been affected by anthropogenic activities, there are not.
Derivatives
anthropogenically
- Increasing evidence suggests that stratospheric ozone levels are decreasing because of the presence of anthropogenically derived chlorofluorocarbons in the upper atmosphere.
- However, it is unknown whether these are truly native populations or whether they are anthropogenically introduced populations that have become naturalized.
- This information will help us predict the responses of wild mammals to both natural and anthropogenically induced changes in plant secondary metabolites.
Rhymes
- Nordenfeldt
- Nordenfelt
- nordenskiöldine
- Nordhausen
- Nordic
- Nordic gold
- Nordicism
- Nordicist
- nordicity
- Nordic noir
- Nordic walking
- nordihydroguaiaretic acid
- nordite
- nordkaper
- Nordkapp
- Nordkyn
- nordmarkite
- nordmarkitic
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Nordski
- nordstrandite
- nor'-east
- nor-east
- norephedrine