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Chapter 1. Bending the Curve: Ten Scalable Solutions for Carbon Neutrality and Climate Stability by Ramanathan, V., Allison, J., Auffhammer, M., Auston, D., Barnosky, A. D., Chiang, L., Collins, W. D., Davis, S. J., Forman, F., Hecht, S. B., Kammen, D. M., Lin Lawell, C.-Y. C., Matlock, T., Press, D., Rotman, D., Samuelsen, S., Solomon, G., Victor, D., Washom, B., Christensen, J.

“…We are living in a world of over seven billion people, with annual greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 50 billion tons a year and rising steadily. If…”
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Evolution, climatic change and species boundaries: perspectives from tracing Lemmiscus curtatus populations through time and space by Barnosky, A. D., Bell, C. J.

“…through hundreds of thousands of years by following populations from the middle Pleistocene to the present. We found that: (i) extant representatives of the…”
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The future extent of the Anthropocene epoch: A synthesis by Summerhayes, C.P., Zalasiewicz, J., Head, M.J., Syvitski, J., Barnosky, A.D., Cearreta, A., Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, B., Grinevald, J., Leinfelder, R., McCarthy, F.M.G., McNeill, J.R., Saito, Y., Wagreich, M., Waters, C.N., Williams, M., Zinke, J.

“…We synthesize research from complementary scientific fields to address the likely future extent and duration of the proposed Anthropocene epoch…”
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Rethinking megafauna by Moleón, Marcos, Sánchez-Zapata, José A, Donázar, José A, Revilla, Eloy, Martín-López, Berta, Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Cayetano, Getz, Wayne M, Morales-Reyes, Zebensui, Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa, Crowder, Larry B, Galetti, Mauro, González-Suárez, Manuela, He, Fengzhi, Jordano, Pedro, Lewison, Rebecca, Naidoo, Robin, Owen-Smith, Norman, Selva, Nuria, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Tella, José L, Zarfl, Christiane, Jähnig, Sonja C, Hayward, Matt W, Faurby, Søren, García, Nuria, Barnosky, Anthony D, Tockner, Klement

“…Concern for megafauna is increasing among scientists and non-scientists. Many studies have emphasized that megafauna play prominent ecological roles and…”
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Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate by Koch, Paul L., Barnosky, Anthony D.

“…Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of…”
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Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents by Barnosky, Anthony D., Koch, Paul L., Feranec, Robert S., Wing, Scott L., Shabel, Alan B.

“…One of the great debates about extinction is whether humans or climatic change caused the demise of the Pleistocene megafauna. Evidence from paleontology,…”
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Taphonomy and Herd Structure of the Extinct Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus by Barnosky, Anthony D.

“…Fossils of the late Pleistocene elk Megaloceros giganteus from Ballybetagh bog, near Dublin, Ireland, indicate that males segregated from females during…”
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Acknowledgments by Barnosky, A. D

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Locomotion in Moles (Insectivora, Proscalopidae) from the Middle Tertiary of North America by Barnosky, Anthony D.

“…The locomotion of proscalopid moles, an extinct group restricted to North America, differed from that of other animals. Analysis of a newly discovered and…”
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The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodiversity by Barnosky, Anthony D, Carrasco, Marc A, Davis, Edward B

“…Estimates of paleodiversity patterns through time have relied on datasets that lump taxonomic occurrences from geographic areas of varying size per interval of…”
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The Role of Climatic Change in the Evolution of Mammals by BARNOSKY, ANTHONY D, KRAATZ, BRIAN P

“…The paleontological record of mammals offers many examples of evolutionary change, which are well documented at many levels of the biological hierarchy—at the…”
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MAMMALIAN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING ON VARIED TEMPORAL SCALES by Barnosky, Anthony D., Hadly, Elizabeth A., Bell, Christopher J.

“…Paleontological information was used to evaluate and compare how Rocky Mountain mammalian communities changed during past global warming events characterized…”
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Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations by Graham, Russell W., Lundelius, Ernest L., Graham, Mary Ann, Schroeder, Erich K., Toomey, Rickard S., Anderson, Elaine, Barnosky, Anthony D., Burns, James A., Churcher, Charles S., Grayson, Donald K., Guthrie, R. Dale, Harington, C. R., Jefferson, George T., Martin, Larry D., McDonald, H. Gregory, Morlan, Richard E., Semken, Holmes A., Webb, S. David, Werdelin, Lars, Wilson, Michael C.

“…Analyses of fossil mammal faunas from 2945 localities in the United States demonstrate that the geographic ranges of individual species shifted at different…”
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Exceptional Record of Mid-Pleistocene Vertebrates Helps Differentiate Climatic from Anthropogenic Ecosystem Perturbations by Barnosky, Anthony D., Bell, Christopher J., Emslie, Steven D., Goodwin, H. Thomas, Mead, Jim I., Repenning, Charles A., Scott, Eric, Shabel, Alan B., Leopold, Estella B.

“…Mid-Pleistocene vertebrates in North America are scarce but important for recognizing the ecological effects of climatic change in the absence of humans. We…”
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Effects of Oligo-Miocene Global Climate Changes on Mammalian Species Richness in the Northwestern Quarter of the USA by Barnosky, Anthony D, Carrasco, Marc A

“…Three different techniques were used to develop species richness curves for mammal species recorded in fossil deposits between 9-30 million years old for three…”
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Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the mid-Miocene Railroad Canyon sequence, Montana and Idaho, and age of the mid-Tertiary unconformity west of the continental Divide by Barnosky, Anthony D., Bibi, Faysal, Hopkins, Samantha S. B., Nichols, Ralph

“…The Barstovian of the northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., is known mainly from deposits east of the continental divide; this article provides new information…”
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Mammalian Response To Global Warming On Varied Temporal Scales by Barnosky, AD, Hadly, E A, Bell, C J

“…Paleontological information was used to evaluate and compare how Rocky Mountain mammalian communities changed during past global warming events characterized…”
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS by A. D. Barnosky

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New populations and biogeographic patterns of the geomyid rodents Lignimus and Mojavemys from the Barstovian of western Montana by Feranec, Robert S., Barnosky, Anthony D., Quang, Chi N.

“…New dental specimens described here from the Barstovian CC South and Flint Creek localities of western Montana are determined to be of two geomyid rodent…”
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Temperate Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas in North and South America: Interplay of Ecology, Evolution, and Geography with Biodiversity by Barnosky, Anthony D., Hadly, Elizabeth A., Maurer, Brian A., Christie, Michael I.

“…To help identify the factors that govern species richness in biological preserves, we performed a comparative study of terrestrial vertebrate species richness…”
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