Defining the Anthropocene

By Simon L. Lewis, M. Maslin. Nature, 2015

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BA3‐SNPs: Contemporary migration reconfigured in BayesAss for next‐generation sequence data (2019, background): “Defining the Anthropocene.”
The Concept of the Anthropocene (2017, background): “Another late Holocene date that has been proposed is around the sixteenth century, which marks the European invasion and colonization of the Americas, which had hitherto hosted an isolated and independent experiment in human civilization (23).”
Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? (2015, background): “One recent paper argues for either 1610 (when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels dipped after the arrival of Europeans brought death to about 50 million native people in the Americas) or 1964 (based on peak carbon 14 fallout signatures) as potential kickoff dates (Lewis and Maslin, 2015).”
Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants (2015, methodology): “We used a novel database, Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF), combined with data on the origins of the naturalized species and estimates of the numbers of native species per continent, to assess (1) which continents have accumulated the largest naturalized floras, and (2) which have been the ma”
The concept of the Anthropocene as a game-changer: a new context for social innovation and transformations to sustainability (2017, background): “The Anthropocene era, and particularly the period from the 1950s onward, has been deemed a significant period referred to as the “Great Acceleration” (Hibbard et al. 2007, Lewis and Maslin 2015, Steffen et al. 2015, Gaffney and Steffen 2017).”
Which Taxa Are Alien? Criteria, Applications, and Uncertainties (2018, background): “, mesopredator release) Observed range expansions of species after functional extinction of competitors, predators, or pathogens Not considered relevant for separating native from alien taxa Snow and Perrins (1998), Lonsdale (1999), Ritchie and Johnson (2009), Richardson et al.”
The Rise of Cheap Nature (2016, background): “Recently, Lewis and Maslin (2015) proposed a different date with a different kind of spike: an orbis spike (“global” spike).”
Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools (2018, background): “Alien species have thus emerged as a defining feature of the Anthropocene (7).”
Food as Commons or Commodity? Exploring the Links between Normative Valuations and Agency in Food Transition (2017, background): “Human beings are becoming the main cause of planetary transformation, leading us to a new era that has been termed as the Anthropocene by geologists [20] or the Capitalocene by sociologists [21].”
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050 (2020, neutral): “Besides being an outcome of globalization, biological invasions are also considered a major driver of global bio-diversity change (IPBES, 2019; Pyšek et al., 2020) and have become a defining feature of the Anthropocene (Lewis & Maslin, 2015).”