نتایج جستجو برای: anthropocene

تعداد نتایج: 2259  

2016
Valentí Rull

A number of informal terms (e.g., Anthropocene, Anthropozoic, Psychozoic, Noozoic, and Technogene) have been used to designate the rock unit and time interval where the impact of collective human action on the Earth system is clearly recognizable (called here the Humanized Earth System or HES). Presently, Anthropocene is the most commonly used, and the International Commission on Stratigraphy i...

2016
B. Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł B. Smieja-Król M. Frontasyeva M. Słowiński K. Marcisz E. Lapshina D. Gilbert A. Buttler V. E. J. Jassey K. Kaliszan F. Laggoun-Défarge P. Kołaczek M. Lamentowicz

As human impact have been increasing strongly over the last decades, it is crucial to distinguish human-induced dust sources from natural ones in order to define the boundary of a newly proposed epoch - the Anthropocene. Here, we track anthropogenic signatures and natural geochemical anomalies in the Mukhrino peatland, Western Siberia. Human activity was recorded there from cal AD 1958 (±6). An...

2012
Andrew H. Knoll Donald E. Canfield Daniel P. Schrag

Homo sapiens first appeared on the Earth somewhere in Africa roughly 200 000 years ago. It happened with little fanfare; few could have imagined that this new species of primate would someday disrupt the Earth system to the point of defining a new geologic epoch around its legacy. Indeed, the first 150 000 years of the natural history of our species, mostly in Africa, were fairly uneventful for...

Journal: :Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology 2019

2012
Nicholas A. Robinson

Cop Human activities have vastly altered the Earth. Scientists posit that Earth has entered a new geological epoch, termed the ‘Anthropocene’. Yet, although physical conditions have changed, human socio-economic endeavors still proceed as in the past, on the basis of increasingly obsolete assumptions about natural systems and resources (‘business as usual’). As currently conceived, sustainable ...

Journal: :Science 2016
Colin N Waters Jan Zalasiewicz Colin Summerhayes Anthony D Barnosky Clément Poirier Agnieszka Gałuszka Alejandro Cearreta Matt Edgeworth Erle C Ellis Michael Ellis Catherine Jeandel Reinhold Leinfelder J R McNeill Daniel deB Richter Will Steffen James Syvitski Davor Vidas Michael Wagreich Mark Williams An Zhisheng Jacques Grinevald Eric Odada Naomi Oreskes Alexander P Wolfe

Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth. Vigorous debate continues about whether this warrants recognition as a new geologic time unit known as the Anthropocene. We review anthropogenic markers of functional changes in the Earth system through the stratigraphic record. The appearance of manufactured materials in sediments, including aluminum, plastics, and concre...

Journal: :Nature communications 2013
Brody Sandel Jens-Christian Svenning

The Anthropocene is a geological epoch marked by major human influences on processes in the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. One of the most dramatic features of the Anthropocene is the massive alteration of the Earth's vegetation, including forests. Here we investigate the role of topography in shaping human impacts on tree cover from local to global scales. We show that human...

Journal: :Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 2011
Jan Zalasiewicz Mark Williams Richard Fortey Alan Smith Tiffany L Barry Angela L Coe Paul R Bown Peter F Rawson Andrew Gale Philip Gibbard F John Gregory Mark W Hounslow Andrew C Kerr Paul Pearson Robert Knox John Powell Colin Waters John Marshall Michael Oates Philip Stone

The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using stratigraphic criteria. It is complex in time, space and process, and may be considered in terms of the scale, relative timing, duration and novelty of its various phenomena. The lithostratigraphic signal includes both di...

Journal: :Science 2014
Rodolfo Dirzo Hillary S Young Mauro Galetti Gerardo Ceballos Nick J B Isaac Ben Collen

We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly, human impacts on animal biodiversity are an under-recognized form of global environmental change. Among terrestrial vertebrates, 322 species have become extinct since 1500, and populations of the remaining species show ...

2016
Amelia Moore

This paper introduces the Anthropocene idea as a problem space with salience for Caribbean anthropology and the Caribbean travel industry. The term is used by scientists to define the present era in which human processes operate at the scale of the Earth’s geologic and biological systems, and it has come to justify a host of current actions in the name of sustainability. Through the examination...

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