Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

Bolder Thinking for Conservation

(2012) REED F. NOSS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

(2012) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

All Is Not Loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2012) Erle C. Ellis et al.   PLoS One

‘Planetary boundaries’—exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

(2012) Victor Galaz et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

(2011) Frances Westley et al.   AMBIO

The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

(2011) Will Steffen et al.   AMBIO

Reconnecting to the Biosphere

(2011) Carl Folke et al.   AMBIO

Energetic Limits to Economic Growth

(2011) James H. Brown et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault

(2011) Kenneth G. Johnson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The human-induced imbalance between C, N and P in Earth's life system

(2011) Josep Peñuelas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

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

Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere

(2011) E. C. Ellis   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

History matters: ecometrics and integrative climate change biology

(2011) P. D. Polly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

(2011) S. R. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

(2011) T. P. Dawson et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Rescuing ecosystems from extinction cascades through compensatory perturbations

(2011) Sagar Sahasrabudhe et al.   Nature Communications

Early warning of climate tipping points

(2011) Timothy M. Lenton   Nature Climate Change

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Biomass transformation webs provide a unified approach to consumer-resource modelling

(2010) Wayne M. Getz   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Regime shifts in ecological systems can occur with no warning

(2010) Alan Hastings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change

(2010) Jessica L. Blois et al.   NATURE

Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments

(2010) John M. Drake et al.   NATURE

Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution

(2010) J. Forrest et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes

(2010) Renata Pardini et al.   PLoS One

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

The Growing Human Footprint on Coastal and Open-Ocean Biogeochemistry

(2010) S. C. Doney   SCIENCE

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

A framework for community interactions under climate change

(2010) Sarah E. Gilman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mammalian Response to Cenozoic Climatic Change

(2009) Jessica L. Blois et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Critical thresholds associated with habitat loss: a review of the concepts, evidence, and applications

(2009) Trisha L. Swift et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biodiversity scales from plots to biomes with a universal species-area curve

(2009) John Harte et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using phylochronology to reveal cryptic population histories: review and synthesis of 29 ancient DNA studies

(2009) UMA RAMAKRISHNAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

Quantifying the Extent of North American Mammal Extinction Relative to the Pre-Anthropogenic Baseline

(2009) Marc A. Carrasco et al.   PLoS One

Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it

(2009) Reinette Biggs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecology and the ratchet of events: Climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions

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

Simple MaxEnt models explain food web degree distributions

(2009) Richard J. Williams   Theoretical Ecology

Disease and the Dynamics of Food Webs

(2009) Wayne M. Getz   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE

Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park

(2008) S. K. McMenamin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean

(2008) J. B. C. Jackson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs

(2008) E. L. Berlow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions

(2008) A. D. Barnosky   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Compilation and Network Analyses of Cambrian Food Webs

(2008) Jennifer A Dunne et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY