Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

[HTML][HTML] Denudation and geomorphic change in the Anthropocene; a global overview.

A Cendrero, J Remondo, AA Beylich, P Cienciala… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effects of human activity on geomorphic processes, particularly those related to
denudation/sedimentation, are investigated by reviewing case studies and global …

A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch

PL Gibbard, AM Bauer, M Edgeworth, WF Ruddiman… - …, 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The Anthropocene has yet to be defined in a way that is functional both to the international
geological community and to the broader fields of environmental and social sciences …

Remotely sensed rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the art and prospects

H Piégay, F Arnaud, B Belletti… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rivers of the world are undergoing accelerated change in the Anthropocene, and need
to be managed at much broader spatial and temporal scales than before. Fluvial remote …

Natural vs anthropogenic streams in Europe: History, ecology and implications for restoration, river-rewilding and riverine ecosystem services

AG Brown, L Lespez, DA Sear, JJ Macaire… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In Europe and North America the prevailing model of “natural” lowland streams is
incised-meandering channels with silt-clay floodplains, and this is the typical template for …

Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates

CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Anthropocene as a potential new unit of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart
(which serves as the basis of the Geological Time Scale) is assessed in terms of the …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: Current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

Catchment-scale cumulative impact of human activities on river channels in the late Anthropocene: implications, limitations, prospect

PW Downs, H Piégay - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Evidence for the proposed Anthropocene epoch in fluvial geomorphology hinges on the
influence of human activities relative to natural forcing. However, research on cause-effect …

Impact of changes to the atmospheric soluble iron deposition flux on ocean biogeochemical cycles in the Anthropocene

DS Hamilton, JK Moore, A Arneth… - Global …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Iron can be a growth‐limiting nutrient for phytoplankton, modifying rates of net primary
production, nitrogen fixation, and carbon export‐highlighting the importance of new iron …

Combining geomorphometry, feature extraction techniques and Earth-surface processes research: The way forward

G Sofia - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the wealth of technological development revolutionised our ability to collect
data in geosciences. Due to the unprecedented level of detail of these datasets …