Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
Abstract Human use of land is a major cause of the global environmental changes that define the Anthropocene. Archaeological and paleoecological evidence confirm that human populations and their use of land transformed ecosystems at sites around the world by the late Pleistocene and historical model...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BioOne
2013-12-01
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Series: | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene |
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Online Access: | http://elementascience.org/article/info:doi/10.12952/journal.elementa.000018 |