The Anthropocene: A conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere

Earth's Future

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 34-53

  Williams, Mark ^a   Zalasiewicz, Jan ^a   Waters, Colin N ^b   Edgeworth, Matt ^a   Bennett, Carys ^a   Barnosky, Anthony D ^c   Ellis, Erle C ^d   Ellis, Michael A ^b   Cearreta, Alejandro ^e   Haff, Peter K ^f   Ivar Do Sul, Juliana A ^g   Leinfelder, Reinhold ^h   McNeill, John R ⁱ   Odada, Eric ^j   Oreskes, Naomi ^k   Revkin, Andrew ^l   Richter, Daniel DeB ^f   Steffen, Will ^m   Summerhayes, Colin ⁿ   Syvitski, James P ^o   Vidas, Davor ^p   Wagreich, Michael ^q   Wing, Scott L ^r   Wolfe, Alexander P ^s   Zhisheng, An ^t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS Brazil)   (Brazil)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁱ GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^k HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^p FRIDTJOF NANSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^q UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^r DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^t Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

more..

Author keywords

Anthropocene; biosphere; evolution

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOSPHERE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EARTH; ENERGY FLOW; EVOLUTION; METAZOAN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NATURAL RESOURCE; PHANEROZOIC; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HOMO SAPIENS; METAZOA;

EID: 84992309749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015EF000339     Document Type: Article

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