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Anthony D. Barnosky
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 107
Citations - 18482
Anthony D. Barnosky is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anthropocene & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 99 publications receiving 15245 citations. Previous affiliations of Anthony D. Barnosky include Museum of Vertebrate Zoology & Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
Anthony D. Barnosky,Nicholas J. Matzke,Susumu Tomiya,Susumu Tomiya,Guinevere O. U. Wogan,Guinevere O. U. Wogan,Brian Swartz,Tiago B. Quental,Tiago B. Quental,Charles R. Marshall,Jenny L. McGuire,Emily L. Lindsey,Kaitlin C. Maguire,Ben Mersey,Elizabeth A Ferrer +14 more
TL;DR: Differences between fossil and modern data and the addition of recently available palaeontological information influence understanding of the current extinction crisis, and results confirm that current extinction rates are higher than would be expected from the fossil record.
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Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
Gerardo Ceballos,Paul R. Ehrlich,Anthony D. Barnosky,Andrés García,Robert M. Pringle,Todd M. Palmer +5 more
TL;DR: Estimates of extinction rates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way and a window of opportunity is rapidly closing.
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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.
Will Steffen,Johan Rockström,Katherine Richardson,Timothy M. Lenton,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Diana Liverman,Colin Summerhayes,Anthony D. Barnosky,Sarah Cornell,Michel Crucifix,Jonathan F. Donges,Jonathan F. Donges,Ingo Fetzer,Steven J. Lade,Steven J. Lade,Marten Scheffer,Ricarda Winkelmann,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber +20 more
TL;DR: The risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate temperature rises and cause continued warming on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway even as human emissions are reduced is explored.
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Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
Anthony D. Barnosky,Elizabeth A. Hadly,Jordi Bascompte,Eric L. Berlow,James H. Brown,Mikael Fortelius,Wayne M. Getz,John Harte,Alan Hastings,Pablo A. Marquet,Neo D. Martinez,Arne Ø. Mooers,Peter D. Roopnarine,Geerat J. Vermeij,John W. Williams,Rosemary G. Gillespie,Justin Kitzes,Charles R. Marshall,Nicholas J. Matzke,David P. Mindell,Eloy Revilla,Adam B. Smith +21 more
TL;DR: Evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence is reviewed, highlighting the need to improve biological forecasting by detecting early warning signs of critical transitions.
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The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Colin N. Waters,Jan Zalasiewicz,Colin Summerhayes,Anthony D. Barnosky,Clément Poirier,Agnieszka Gałuszka,Alejandro Cearreta,Matt Edgeworth,Erle C. Ellis,Michael A. Ellis,Catherine Jeandel,Reinhold Leinfelder,John Robert McNeill,Daniel Richter,Will Steffen,James P. M. Syvitski,Davor Vidas,Michael Wagreich,Mark Williams,An Zhisheng,Jacques Grinevald,Eric O. Odada,Naomi Oreskes,Alexander P. Wolfe +23 more
TL;DR: C climatic, biological, and geochemical signatures of human activity in sediments and ice cores, Combined with deposits of new materials and radionuclides, as well as human-caused modification of sedimentary processes, the Anthropocene stands alone stratigraphically as a new epoch beginning sometime in the mid–20th century.