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Browsing by Subject "Anthropocene"
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A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts: a response to W.F. Ruddiman’s ‘three flaws in defining a formal Anthropocene’
(Progress in Physical Geography, 2019-06-01)© The Author(s) 2019. We analyse the ‘three flaws’ to potentially defining a formal Anthropocene geological time unit as advanced by Ruddiman (2018). (1) We recognize a long record of pre-industrial human impacts, but note ... -
Applying machine learning to investigate long-term insect-plant interactions preserved on digitized herbarium specimens.
(Applications in plant sciences, 2020-06)Premise:Despite the economic significance of insect damage to plants (i.e., herbivory), long-term data documenting changes in herbivory are limited. Millions of pressed plant specimens are now available online and can be ... -
Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities
(2017)By combining literary, ecocritical, and media techniques with a mindfulness of the environment, “Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities” contributes to the urgent ... -
Hydrologic Functioning of Low-Relief, Deep Soil Watersheds and Hydrologic Legacies of Intensive Agriculture in the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory, South Carolina, USA
(2020)Watersheds are complex, three dimensional structures that partition water between the components of the water balance and multiple storage pools within the watershed. This central function, however, remains poorly understood ... -
Low-intensity logging and hunting have long-term effects on seed dispersal but not fecundity in Afrotropical forests.
(AoB PLANTS, 2019-02)Hunting and logging, ubiquitous human disturbances in tropical forests, have the potential to alter the ecological processes that govern population recruitment and community composition. Hunting-induced declines in populations ... -
Maintenance Works: The Aesthetics and Politics of Collective Support.
(2021)Maintenance Works: The Aesthetics and Politics of Collective Support investigates the cultural visibility and value of maintenance labor through a critical examination of American visual and material culture, post-1969. ... -
Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: An analysis of ongoing critiques
(Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 2017-01-01)© 2017 The Authors. A range of published arguments against formalizing the Anthropocene as a geological time unit have variously suggested that it is a misleading term of non-stratigraphic origin and usage, is based ... -
Marine resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene
(Environmental Conservation, 2018-06-01)© 2017 Foundation for Environmental Conservation. Because the Anthropocene by definition is an epoch during which environmental change is largely anthropogenic and driven by social, economic, psychological and political ... -
Oceans as the Paradigm of History
(Theory, Culture and Society, 2021-01-01)The temporality of historical flows can be understood through the paradigm of oceanic circulations of water. Historical processes are not linear and tunneled but circulatory and global, like oceanic currents. The argument ... -
Oceans, Gardens, and Jungles: World Politics and the Planet
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Persistent anthropogenic legacies structure depth dependence of regenerating rooting systems and their functions
(Biogeochemistry, 2020-02-01)© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Biotically-mediated weathering helps to shape Earth’s surface. For example, plants expend carbon (C) to mobilize nutrients in forms whose relative abundances vary with depth. It thus ... -
Woman, Nature, and Observer in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and To the Lighthouse: An Ecofeminist Approach
(2017-09-19)This thesis discusses narration as a tool that mediates the portrayal of women and nature by subjecting both to the perspective of an observer. Realist fiction provides us with material to study this phenomenon in depth ...
