Earth's sediment cycle during the Anthropocene

J Syvitski, JR Ángel, Y Saito, I Overeem… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The global sediment cycle is a fundamental feature of the Earth system, balancing
competing factors such as orogeny, physical–chemical erosion and human action. In this …

Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

LT Kelly, KM Giljohann, A Duane, N Aquilué… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation
in fire regimes continues to be a source of biodiversity across the globe, and many plants …

Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers

S Willcock, GS Cooper, J Addy, JA Dearing - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
A major concern for the world's ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes
and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing …

Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries

AL Fanning, DW O'Neill, M Büchs - Global Environmental Change, 2020 - Elsevier
The concept of provisioning systems has recently emerged as a promising way to
understand the differences between levels of resource use and social outcomes observed …

Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modeling

S Elsawah, T Filatova, AJ Jakeman… - Socio-Environmental …, 2020 - research.utwente.nl
Modeling is essential to characterize and explore complex societal and environmental
issues in systematic and collaborative ways. Socio-environmental systems (SES) modeling …

Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

PH Verburg, N Crossman, EC Ellis, A Heinimann… - Anthropocene, 2015 - Elsevier
Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …