Human Impacts on the Biome

In my discoveries today I learned all about how humans impact the desert biome. We are impacting this biome in more ways than you would think. Many types of human activities affect the desert biome, like off roading when we run our vehicles over the desert soil and carve the tracks into the soil that will scar the land for many years. These tracks can kill off vegetation in the desert when the vegetation is hurt so are the animals. Animals that rely on the sandy desert floor for camouflage can be harmed. We also affect the water in the desert without even knowing what it does to the ecosystem. There is so little water that moves through the desert, the plants are provided with water from irrigation from rivers and wells. By removing fossil water, humans are destroying water that other animals were relying on for survival.