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The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature
Ambio, 2007 We explore the development of the Anthropocene, the current epoch in which humans and our societies have become a global geophysical force. The Anthropocene began around 1800 with the onset of industrialization, the central feature of which was the ...
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The development of Anthropocene Awareness Scale. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe political influence of the Anthropocene concept stems from its analytic potential to encompass various disciplines and capture public attention.
Donghun Kang, Moon Choi
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The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth-regulating systems in the Anthropocene. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AThe Anthropocene signifies the start of a no-analogue trajectory of the Earth system that is fundamentally different from the Holocene. This new trajectory is characterized by rising risks of triggering irreversible and unmanageable shifts in Earth ...
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 Conservation targets that reference historical expectations, such as maintaining specified areas of intact ecosystems, restoring degraded ones or maintaining the historic distributions of species, may not be realistic in the context of ongoing ...
Chris D. Thomas +3 more
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A global meta-analysis of soil organic carbon in the Anthropocene
Nature Communications, 2023 Anthropogenic activities profoundly impact soil organic carbon (SOC), affecting its contribution to ecosystem services such as climate regulation. Here, we conducted a thorough review of the impacts of land-use change, land management, and climate change
Damien Beillouin +7 more
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People and Nature, 2023 Establishing and expanding protected areas (PAs) has become a key conservation tool in efforts to halt global declines in biodiversity. Given the ubiquity of past and present human influence, PAs inevitably include landscapes and seascapes with varying ...
Michael J. Stratigos +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Monitoring vessel activity is an important part of managing marine protected areas (MPAs), but small-scale fishing and recreational vessels that do not participate in cooperative vessel traffic systems require additional monitoring strategies.
Samantha Cope +4 more
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Reduced effective radiative forcing from cloud–aerosol interactions (ERFaci) with improved treatment of early aerosol growth in an Earth system model [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 Historically, aerosols of anthropogenic origin have offset some of the warming from increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. The strength of this negative aerosol forcing, however, is highly uncertain – especially the part originating from ...
S. M. Blichner +2 more
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Trajectories of freshwater microbial genomics and greenhouse gas saturation upon glacial retreat
Nature Communications, 2023 Due to climate warming, ice sheets around the world are losing mass, contributing to changes across terrestrial landscapes on decadal time spans. However, landscape repercussions on climate are poorly constrained mostly due to limited knowledge on ...
Jing Wei +5 more
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Translating area-based conservation pledges into efficient biodiversity protection outcomes
Communications Biology, 2021 Cunningham et al. comment on the U.K.’s commitment to protect 30% of land by 2030, by identifying priority landscapes for expansion of the current protected area network in the UK using 445 priority species ranges across the country, under two baseline ...
Charles A. Cunningham +4 more
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