Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

By Erle C. Ellis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2011

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Subfields: Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century (2013, background): “Concerns about these trends have motivated prominent scholars to define a new geological era, the “anthropocene” (1, 2).”
Trends in soil microbial communities during secondary succession (2017, background): “Currently, three-quarters of Earth's ice-free terrestrial biomes are being disturbed by humans (Ellis, 2011).”
The Concept of the Anthropocene (2017, background): “challenging both idealizations and romantic visions of low premodern human impacts on the environment (37, 103), while on the other hand emphasizing the dramatic rupture of the contemporary global environmental change (63).”
Analyzing High Resolution Topography for Advancing the Understanding of Mass and Energy Transfer Through Landscapes: A Review (2015, background): “…geomorphic agents (Marsh, 1869, 1882), have now significantly impacted landscapes and their ecosystems (Hooke, 1994, 2000; Foley et al., 2005; Ellis et al., 2006; Montgomery, 2007; Syvitski and Saito, 2007;30 Wilkinson and McElroy, 2007; Ellis, 2011; Sidle and Ziegler, 2012; Tarolli et al., 2014).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “…the emergence of humans as a ‘‘great force of nature’’ that is transforming the Earth system, shifting the planet into a new epoch of geologic time: the Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002, Steffen et al. 2007, Ellis 2011, Steffen et al. 2011, Zalasiewicz et al. 2012, Smith and Zeder 2013, Barnosky 2014).”
Considerations for restoring temperate forests of tomorrow: forest restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering (2015, background): “2010), anthropogenic disturbance is expected to increase (Ellis 2011).”
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene (2016, background): “geological traces that include profound shifts in plant and animal remains, charcoal, and sediment deposits from soil erosion (39, 40).”