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Measuring temporal turnover in ecological communities [PDF]
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6(12) (2015) 1384-1394, 2015 Range migrations in response to climate change, invasive species and the emergence of novel ecosystems highlight the importance of temporal turnover in community composition as a fundamental part of global change in the Anthropocene. Temporal turnover is usually quantified using a variety of metrics initially developed to capture spatial change ...
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Does polymixis complicate prediction of high‐frequency dissolved oxygen in lakes and reservoirs?
Limnology and Oceanography, EarlyView.Abstract As lake and reservoir ecosystems transition across major environmental regimes (e.g., mixing regime) resulting from anthropogenic change, setting predictive expectations is imperative. We tested the hypothesis that (dissolved) oxygen is more predictable in monomictic reservoirs that thermally stratify throughout the summer (warm) season ...
Caleb J. Robbins +5 more
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Engineering an Anthropocene Citizenship Framework [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 This article presents an Anthropocene citizen-cantered framework by incorporating the neuroscience of sustainability related stressors, the biology of collaboration in multi-agent ecosystems such as urban systems, and by emphasising on the importance of harnessing the collective intelligence of the crowd in addressing wicked challenges of sustainable ...
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Earth system modeling with endogenous and dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE open World-Earth modeling framework [PDF]
, 2019 Analysis of Earth system dynamics in the Anthropocene requires to explicitly take into account the increasing magnitude of processes operating in human societies, their cultures, economies and technosphere and their growing feedback entanglement with those in the physical, chemical and biological systems of the planet. However, current state-of-the-art
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Science, 2015 In their Perspective “Defining the epoch we live in” (3 April, p. [38][1]), W. F. Ruddiman et al. write that in spite of its popularity, the Anthropocene still lacks an official onset. They propose that the term anthropocene be used informally (without the initial capital), which would avoid ...
CERTINI, GIACOMO, Scalenghe, R.
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Extinction in the Anthropocene [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 Samuel Turvey and Jennifer Crees introduce the effects of humans on biodiversity.
Jennifer J. Crees, Samuel T. Turvey
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Oikos, EarlyView.Interspecific pollen transfer (IPT), the pollen movement between plant species via shared pollinators, reduces the reproductive success of pollen‐recipient plants due to hybridization with heterospecific pollen grains. As a result, IPT hinders coexistence of sympatric, co‐flowering species by reducing their reproductive success.
Keiichi Morita +2 more
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Modeling boreal forest soil dynamics with the microbially explicit soil model MIMICS+ (v1.0) [PDF]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentUnderstanding carbon exchange processes between land reservoirs and the atmosphere is essential for predicting carbon–climate feedbacks. Still, considerable uncertainty remains in the representation of the terrestrial carbon cycle in Earth system models.
E. R. Aas +5 more
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What future for the Anthropocene? A biophysical perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 The Anthropocene is a proposed time subdivision of the earth's history correlated to the strong human perturbation of the ecosystem. Much debate is ongoing about what date should be considered as the start of the Anthropocene, but much less on how it can evolve in the future and what are its ultimate limits.
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The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? [PDF]
, 2018 If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today? We summarize the likely geological fingerprint of the Anthropocene, and demonstrate that while clear, it will not differ greatly in many respects from other known events in the geological ...
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