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Climate impacts on tree growth in a Neotropical high mountain forest of the Peruvian Andes

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2020
Global warming can jeopardize important ecosystem functions and services in sensitive Neotropical mountain areas. However, untangling the relative roles of natural climate variability pattern from current global warming trends still represent a major ...
Rodríguez-Morata C   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropocene Feminism by Richard Grusin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of Richard Grusin\u27s Anthropocene ...
Eccles, Stephanie
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Pre‐industrial land‐use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Shrub encroachment has become a global phenomenon in recent decades. While global warming in the Arctic is often cited as the primary cause, human‐managed mountain regions have experienced intense historical land‐use that may also play a considerable role.
Baptiste Nicoud   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration speed, timing, and long‐term shifts in age structure in North American passerines during fall migration

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Migration is challenging for birds, especially juveniles, who experience high mortality rates during migration. The challenge is exacerbated in the Anthropocene, contributing to widespread population declines. Conservation efforts focused on increasing juvenile survival could bolster population recovery.
Dylan M. Osterhaus   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The sense of an ending? Nature in the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Among the normative questions posed by the supposed advent of the Anthropocene is the following: Does the Anthropocene spell the end of nature? The philosophical answer to that question may determine the political answer to the phenomenon that is ...
Arias-Maldonado, Manuel Jesus
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Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Machinocene: Illusions of instrumental reason [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In their seminal work, Dialectics of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno interpreted capitalism as the irrational monetization of nature. In the present work, I analyze three 21st century concepts, Anthropocene, Capitalocene and Machinocene, in light of
Slijepcevic, Predrag
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On the Transformative Nature of Luxury Consumption and Consumer Well‐Being: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consuming luxury products and services has received little systematic attention as a potential pathway to consumer well‐being, despite sporadic evidence suggesting that luxury experiences may catalyse self‐transformational processes and happiness‐related outcomes.
Solon Magrizos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A supply-limited torrent that does not feel the heat of climate change

open access: yesNature Communications
Debris-flow activity in the Alps is anticipated to undergo pronounced changes in response to a warming climate. Yet, a fundamental challenge in comprehensively assessing changes in process activity is the systematic lack of long-term observational debris-
Jiazhi Qie   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hazards and disasters in the Anthropocene: some critical reflections for the future

open access: yesGeoscience Letters, 2018
The arrival of the Anthropocene presents many challenges—both theoretical and practical. Scholars in different disciplines, practitioners, the public and others, are all considering the meaning of the Anthropocene and how its arrival affects their ways ...
Dale Dominey-Howes
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological Finitude as Ontological Finitude: Radical Hope in the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The proposal that the earth has entered a new epoch called “the Anthropocene” has touched a nerve . One unsettling part of having our ecological finitude thrust upon us with the term “Anthropocene” is that, as Nietzsche said of the death of God, we ...
Flores, Fernando, Rousse, B. Scot
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