Response to "the Anthropocene forces us to reconsider adaptationist models of human-environment interactions"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 6008-

  Zalasiewicz, Jan ^a   Williams, Mark ^a,b   Steffen, Will ^c   Crutzen, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b British Geological Survey   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOCENE; CRYOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LETTER; PALEOCENE; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; WAR;

EID: 77956496363     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102062w     Document Type: Letter

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