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Insect Declines in the Anthropocene.
Annual Review of Entomology, 2020 Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and there are considerable demographic data for many taxonomically disparate
D. L. Wagner
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Politics of Time and Mourning in the Anthropocene
Social Sciences, 2021 The Anthropocene thesis makes it necessary for the social sciences to engage with temporality in novel ways. The Anthropocene highlights interconnections between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ non-linear temporal processes.
Rosine Kelz, Henrike Knappe
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How Anthropocene Might Save the World: Metamorphosis
Social Sciences, 2022 The Anthropocene has created a new cartography. It moves between the rejection of scientific disciplines, overcoming dualism and a change of coordinates with which to interpret the world.
Jordi López Ortega
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The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene
Nature CommunicationsAccess to water is crucial for all aspects of life. Anthropogenic global warming is projected to disrupt the hydrological cycle, leading to water scarcity. However, the timing and hotspot regions of unprecedented water scarcity are unknown.
Vecchia P. Ravinandrasana +1 more
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Limited impacts of climatic conditions on commercial oil palm yields in Malaysian plantations
CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022 Background Oil palm is a key driver of deforestation, but increasing yields in existing plantations could help meet rising global demands, while avoiding further conversion of natural habitat.
Susannah Fleiss +3 more
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Scientific DataComprehensive, global, and standardized data on ocean regulations are essential to assess protection levels. They are also key to successfully measuring progress towards 30 × 30 goals.
Virgil Zetterlind +7 more
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The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Science, 2016 Evidence of an Anthropocene epoch Humans are undoubtedly altering many geological processes on Earth—and have been for some time. But what is the stratigraphic evidence for officially distinguishing this new human-dominated time period, termed the ...
C. Waters +23 more
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Estimating Speed Error of Commercial Radar Tracking to Inform Whale–Ship Strike Mitigation Efforts
SensorsVessel speed reduction measures are a management tool used to reduce the risk of whale–ship strikes and mitigate their impacts. Large ships and other commercial vessels are required to publicly share tracking information, including their speed, via the ...
Samantha Cope King +2 more
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Glacial geomorphology of the Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica
Journal of Maps, 2019 Several regions of tropical America show imprints of past glacial activity. These relict landforms can support the understanding of past climate conditions, such as during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and the implications that these paleoclimatic ...
Adolfo Quesada-Román +3 more
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Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2023 will enable us to re-establish our connections to the natural world. I have my doubts. The capacity for a global, encompassing love – as opposed to care for family or pack or ecosystem partners – is a distinctly human capacity that must be socially ...
G. Dale
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