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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene by Steffen, Will, Rockström, Johan, Richardson, Katherine, Lentond, Timothy M., Folke, Carl, Liverman, Diana, Summerhayes, Colin P., Barnosky, Anthony D., Cornell, Sarah E., Crucifix, Michel, Donges, Jonathan F., Fetzer, Ingo, Lade, Steven J., Scheffer, Marten, Winkelmann, Ricarda, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim

“…We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of…”
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Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions by Barnosky, Anthony D

“…Earth's most recent major extinction episode, the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction, claimed two-thirds of mammal genera and one-half of species that weighed >44…”
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The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene by Waters, Colin N., Zalasiewicz, Jan, Summerhayes, Colin, Barnosky, Anthony D., Poirier, Clément, Galuszka, Agnieszka, Cearreta, Alejandro, Edgeworth, Matt, Ellis, Erle C., Ellis, Michael, Jeandel, Catherine, Leinfelder, Reinhold, McNeill, J. R., deB. Richter, Daniel, Steffen, Will, Syvitski, James, Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael, Williams, Mark, Zhisheng, An, Grinevald, Jacques, Odada, Eric, Oreskes, Naomi, Wolfe, Alexander P.

“…Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth. Vigorous debate continues about whether this warrants recognition as a new geologic…”
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Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction by Ceballos, Gerardo, Ehrlich, Paul R, Barnosky, Anthony D, García, Andrés, Pringle, Robert M, Palmer, Todd M

“…The oft-repeated claim that Earth's biota is entering a sixth "mass extinction" depends on clearly demonstrating that current extinction rates are far above…”
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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? by Barnosky, Anthony D., Matzke, Nicholas, Tomiya, Susumu, Wogan, Guinevere O. U., Swartz, Brian, Quental, Tiago B., Marshall, Charles, McGuire, Jenny L., Lindsey, Emily L., Maguire, Kaitlin C., Mersey, Ben, Ferrer, Elizabeth A.

“…Mass extinctions: are we there yet? Palaeontologists recognize five major extinction events from the fossil record, with the most recent, the Cretaceous mass…”
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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere by Barnosky, Anthony D., Hadly, Elizabeth A., Bascompte, Jordi, Berlow, Eric L., Brown, James H., Fortelius, Mikael, Getz, Wayne M., Harte, John, Hastings, Alan, Marquet, Pablo A., Martinez, Neo D., Mooers, Arne, Roopnarine, Peter, Vermeij, Geerat, Williams, John W., Gillespie, Rosemary, Kitzes, Justin, Marshall, Charles, Matzke, Nicholas, Mindell, David P., Revilla, Eloy, Smith, Adam B.

“…There is evidence that human influence may be forcing the global ecosystem towards a rapid, irreversible, planetary-scale shift into a state unknown in human…”
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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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Variable impact of late-Quaternary megafaunal extinction in causing ecological state shifts in North and South America by Barnosky, Anthony D., Lindsey, Emily L., Villavicencio, Natalia A., Bostelmann, Enrique, Hadly, Elizabeth A., Wanket, James, Marshall, Charles R.

“…Loss of megafauna, an aspect of defaunation, can precipitate many ecological changes over short time scales. We examine whether megafauna loss can also explain…”
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Combination of humans, climate, and vegetation change triggered Late Quaternary megafauna extinction in the Última Esperanza region, southern Patagonia, Chile by Villavicencio, Natalia A, Lindsey, Emily L, Martin, Fabiana M, Borrero, Luis A, Moreno, Patricio I, Marshall, Charles R, Barnosky, Anthony D

“…South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American…”
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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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The Anthropocene biosphere by Williams, Mark, Zalasiewicz, Jan, Haff, PK, Schwägerl, Christian, Barnosky, Anthony D, Ellis, Erle C

“…The geological record preserves evidence for two fundamental stages in the evolution of Earth’s biosphere, a microbial stage from ~3.5 to 0.65 Ga, and a…”
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The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines by Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Ellis, Erle C., Head, Martin J., Vidas, Davor, Steffen, Will, Thomas, Julia Adeney, Horn, Eva, Summerhayes, Colin P., Leinfelder, Reinhold, McNeill, J. R., Gałuszka, Agnieszka, Williams, Mark, Barnosky, Anthony D., Richter, Daniel de B., Gibbard, Philip L., Syvitski, Jaia, Jeandel, Catherine, Cearreta, Alejandro, Cundy, Andrew B., Fairchild, Ian J., Rose, Neil L., Ivar do Sul, Juliana A., Shotyk, William, Turner, Simon, Wagreich, Michael, Zinke, Jens

“…The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated…”
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Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene by Steffen, Will, Leinfelder, Reinhold, Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Williams, Mark, Summerhayes, Colin, Barnosky, Anthony D., Cearreta, Alejandro, Crutzen, Paul, Edgeworth, Matt, Ellis, Erle C., Fairchild, Ian J., Galuszka, Agnieszka, Grinevald, Jacques, Haywood, Alan, Ivar do Sul, Juliana, Jeandel, Catherine, McNeill, J.R., Odada, Eric, Oreskes, Naomi, Revkin, Andrew, Richter, Daniel deB, Syvitski, James, Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael, Wing, Scott L., Wolfe, Alexander P., Schellnhuber, H.J.

“…Stratigraphy provides insights into the evolution and dynamics of the Earth System over its long history. With recent developments in Earth System science,…”
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The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals by Head, Martin J., Zalasiewicz, Jan A., Waters, Colin N., Turner, Simon D., Williams, Mark, Barnosky, Anthony D., Steffen, Will, Wagreich, Michael, Haff, Peter K., Syvitski, Jaia, Leinfelder, Reinhold, Mccarthy, Francine M. G., Rose, Neil L., Wing, Scott L., An, Zhisheng, Cearreta, Alejandro, Cundy, Andrew B., Fairchild, Ian J., Han, Yongming, Ivar Do Sul, Juliana A., Jeandel, Catherine, Mcneill, J. R., Summerhayes, Colin P.

“…ABSTRACT The extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals associated with the ‘Great Acceleration’ enables precise and unambiguous…”
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The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal by Oldfield, Frank, Barnosky, Anthony D, Dearing, John, Fischer-Kowalski, Marina, McNeill, John, Steffen, Will, Zalasiewicz, Jan

“…Human activities now play a major, integral and ever-increasing role in the functioning of the Earth System. This fact lies at the heart of the notion of the…”
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Quantifying the extent of North American mammal extinction relative to the pre-anthropogenic baseline by Carrasco, Marc A, Barnosky, Anthony D, Graham, Russell W

“…Earth has experienced five major extinction events in the past 450 million years. Many scientists suggest we are now witnessing a sixth, driven by human…”
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The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere by Williams, Mark, Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Edgeworth, Matt, Bennett, Carys, Barnosky, Anthony D., Ellis, Erle C., Ellis, Michael A., Cearreta, Alejandro, Haff, Peter K., Ivar do Sul, Juliana A., Leinfelder, Reinhold, McNeill, John R., Odada, Eric, Oreskes, Naomi, Revkin, Andrew, Richter, Daniel deB, Steffen, Will, Summerhayes, Colin, Syvitski, James P., Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael, Wing, Scott L., Wolfe, Alexander P., Zhisheng, An

“…Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This…”
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Biodiversity response to climate change in the middle Pleistocene: the Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado by Barnosky, Anthony D

“…This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world—Porcupine Cave, located…”
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Timing of Quaternary megafaunal extinction in South America in relation to human arrival and climate change by Barnosky, Anthony D., Lindsey, Emily L.

“…South America lost more genera in the Quaternary megafaunal extinction than any other continent, but how it fits into the worldwide extinction has been unclear…”
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Defining the balance point between conservation and development by Tian, Dexin, Xie, Yan, Barnosky, Anthony D., Wei, Fuwen

“…In the face of the current global ecological crisis and the threats it poses to human survival and security, the fundamental solution is to resolve the deep…”
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