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The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere [1]

Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This relationship has increased in its complexity, from localized ecosystems predicated on anaerobic microbial production and consumption to a global biosphere founded on primary production from oxygenic photoautotrophs, through the evolution of Eukarya, metazoans, and the complexly networked ecosystems of microbes, animals, fungi, and plants that characterize the Phanerozoic Eon (the last ∼541 million years of Earth history).

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
14/03/2016
Mark Williams [3], Jan Zalasiewicz [4], Colin N. Waters & et al [5]
Earth's Future [6]
34-53
Tags:
Biomass [7], Ecosystem Services [8], Consumption Patterns [9], Fossils [10], Agriculture [11], Cattle [12], Geology [13]
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[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015EF000339/epdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/mark-williams-0
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jan-zalasiewicz
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/colin-n-waters-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/earths-future
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/consumption-patterns
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fossils
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cattle
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/geology