People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene

(2021) Nicole Boivin et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape

(2020) Michael-Shawn Fletcher et al.   AMBIO

Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia

(2020) Umberto Lombardo et al.   NATURE

Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat

(2020) Karel Mokany et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Distributed urban network systems in the tropical archaeological record: Toward a model for urban sustainability in the era of climate change

(2020) Vernon L Scarborough et al.   Anthropocene Review

A global mapping template for natural and modified habitat across terrestrial Earth

(2020) Joe Gosling et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reframing the Wilderness Concept can Bolster Collaborative Conservation

(2020) Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests

(2020) Andrew J. Hansen et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The importance of indigenous peoples’ lands for the conservation of terrestrial mammals

(2020) Christopher J. O'Bryan et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Accelerating homogenization of the global plant–frugivore meta-network

(2020) Evan C. Fricke et al.   NATURE

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

(2020) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   NATURE

The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity

(2020) Tobias Andermann et al.   Science Advances

Managing the middle: A shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient

(2019) Christina M. Kennedy et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatiotemporal patterns of pre-Columbian people in Amazonia

(2019) Crystal N.H. McMichael et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Biocultural Hysteresis Inhibits Adaptation to Environmental Change

(2019) P.O’B. Lyver et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets

(2019) E. Dinerstein et al.   Science Advances

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

(2019) Lucas Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Three Global Conditions for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use: an implementation framework

(2019) Harvey Locke et al.   National Science Review

Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas

(2019) Richard Schuster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Geographically divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and subtropics

(2019) John Rowan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

(2019) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

“The ‘future of conservation’ debate: Defending ecocentrism and the Nature Needs Half movement”

(2018) Helen Kopnina et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: Urbanization and the Future of Biodiversity Conservation

(2018) Eric W Sanderson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals

(2018) Ester Polaina et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Restore the lost ecological functions of people

(2018) Rebecca Bliege Bird et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands

(2018) Fiona Marshall et al.   NATURE

Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity

(2018) Brendan A. Wintle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

(2018) Victoria Reyes-García et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Ancient Amazonian populations left lasting impacts on forest structure

(2017) M. W. Palace et al.   Ecosphere

Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution

(2017) Alexis P. Sullivan et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets

(2016) James E.M. Watson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America

(2016) Amy Goldberg et al.   NATURE

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

(2016) Nicole L. Boivin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

(2016) W. F. Ruddiman et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

(2016) C. N. Waters et al.   SCIENCE

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

(2015) Erle C. Ellis   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Conservation opportunities across the world's anthromes

(2014) Laura J. Martin et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ancient experiments: forest biodiversity and soil nutrients enhanced by Native American middens

(2014) Susan C. Cook-Patton et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity

(2013) Stephan Barthel et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Ecological impacts of the late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

(2013) R. P. Duncan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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 patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

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

Niche construction and Dreaming logic: aboriginal patch mosaic burning and varanid lizards (Varanus gouldii) in Australia

(2013) R. B. Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

(2011) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

General patterns of niche construction and the management of 'wild' plant and animal resources by small-scale pre-industrial societies

(2011) B. D. Smith   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years

(2010) Kees Klein Goldewijk et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

(2010) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   HOLOCENE

Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate

(2008) Paulo R. Guimarães et al.   PLoS One