Defining the Anthropocene

Inventing the Present: Historical Roots of the Anthropocene

(2015) Robert Davis   EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY

Defining Terms for Proactive Management of Resistance to Bt Crops and Pesticides

(2014) Bruce E. Tabashnik et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Rapid evolution of a native species following invasion by a congener

(2014) Y. E. Stuart et al.   SCIENCE

Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium

(2014) Raphael Neukom et al.   Nature Climate Change

Hello Anthropocene, Goodbye Holocene

(2014) Ben van der Pluijm   Earths Future

Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in tropical secondary forests at the scale of community, landscape and forest type

(2013) D.E. Orihuela-Belmonte et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The Anthropocene

(2013) William F. Ruddiman   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A meta-analytical global comparison of aboveground biomass accumulation between tropical secondary forests and monoculture plantations

(2013) Mark T.L. Bonner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Separating Forced from Chaotic Climate Variability over the Past Millennium

(2013) Andrew P. Schurer et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The Anthropocene could raise biological diversity

(2013) Chris D. Thomas   NATURE

Used planet: A global history

(2013) E. C. Ellis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

(2013) F. Krausmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaeologists Say the 'Anthropocene' Is Here--But It Began Long Ago

(2013) M. Balter   SCIENCE

Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability over the Past  1800 Years

(2013) L. G. Thompson et al.   SCIENCE

A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years

(2013) S. A. Marcott et al.   SCIENCE

Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene–Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes

(2012) Alexander P. Wolfe et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Carbon storage in successional and plantation forest soils: a tropical analysis

(2012) Erika Marín-Spiotta et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after ad 1500

(2012) MJ Power et al.   HOLOCENE

The stratigraphic status of the Anthropocene

(2012) SJ Gale et al.   HOLOCENE

Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation

(2012) Jeremy D. Shakun et al.   NATURE

Natural and anthropogenic variations in methane sources during the past two millennia

(2012) C. J. Sapart et al.   NATURE

Determining the natural length of the current interglacial

(2012) P. C. Tzedakis et al.   Nature Geoscience

Radiocarbon method in environmental monitoring of CO2 emission

(2012) Andrzej Z. Rakowski et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Pattern and process of biotic homogenization in the New Pangaea

(2012) B. Baiser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Measurable Planetary Boundary for the Biosphere

(2012) S. W. Running   SCIENCE

A marine/terrestrial integration for mid-late Holocene vegetation history and the development of the cultural landscape in the Po valley as a result of human impact and climate change

(2012) Anna Maria Mercuri et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Coupled climate–carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO2 between ad 800 and 1850

(2011) Julia Pongratz et al.   HOLOCENE

Neotropical human–landscape interactions, fire, and atmospheric CO2 during European conquest

(2011) R.J. Nevle et al.   HOLOCENE

Anthropogenic soils are the golden spikes for the Anthropocene

(2011) Giacomo Certini et al.   HOLOCENE

Partition of iodine (129I and 127I) isotopes in soils and marine sediments

(2011) Violeta Hansen et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

Representing the ice fall speed in climate models: Results from Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) and the Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC)

(2011) D. L. Mitchell et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years

(2011) Christophe Kinnard et al.   NATURE

Late Holocene methane rise caused by orbitally controlled increase in tropical sources

(2011) Joy S. Singarayer et al.   NATURE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

(2011) J. Zalasiewicz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?

(2011) J. Zalasiewicz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives

(2011) W. Steffen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

(2011) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Coherent Signature of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition to Remote Watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere

(2011) G. W. Holtgrieve et al.   SCIENCE

Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

(2010) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   HOLOCENE

The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

(2010) Donald E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE

Large Variations in Southern Hemisphere Biomass Burning During the Last 650 Years

(2010) Z. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon and hydrogen isotopic composition of methane over the last 1000 years

(2009) J. A. Mischler et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Human predators outpace other agents of trait change in the wild: Fig. 1.

(2009) Chris T. Darimont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Over three millennia of mercury pollution in the Peruvian Andes

(2009) C. A. Cooke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Radiocarbon: A chronological tool for the recent past

(2009) Quan Hua   Quaternary Geochronology

CO2 diffusion in polar ice: observations from naturally formed CO2 spikes in the Siple Dome (Antarctica) ice core

(2008) Jinho Ahn et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records

(2008) Mike Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Effects of syn-pandemic fire reduction and reforestation in the tropical Americas on atmospheric CO2 during European conquest

(2008) Richard J. Nevle et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Identifying crop plants with phytoliths (and starch grains) in Central and South America: A review and an update of the evidence

(2007) Dolores R. Piperno   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL