The Palaeoanthropocene - The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change
The Palaeoanthropocene - The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ancene.2013.11.002
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
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3.6
通讯作者：
Crutzen, Paul J.
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作者：
Foley, Stephen F.;Gronenborn, Detlef;Crutzen, Paul J.
随着人们越来越努力地将人类世视为地质时代的一个新纪元，关于其开始时间的争议仍在继续。在这里，我们建议将古新世一词用于第一次几乎无法识别的人为环境变化和工业革命之间的时期，当时气候，土地利用和生物多样性的变化开始迅速增加。古新世的概念承认人类是地球系统的一个组成部分，而不仅仅是一个外部的强迫因素。要划定古新世的起点，就需要提高对古气候指标的理解和准确性，认识到考古遗址是环境档案，并将古气候、古环境变化和人类发展与第四纪动植物物种分布的变化以及人口生存和死亡的社会经济模式联系起来。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
As efforts to recognize the Anthropocene as a new epoch of geological time are mounting, the controversial debate about the time of its beginning continues. Here, we suggest the term Palaeoanthropocene for the period between the first, barely recognizable, anthropogenic environmental changes and the industrial revolution when anthropogenically induced changes of climate, land use and biodiversity began to increase very rapidly. The concept of the Palaeoanthropocene recognizes that humans are an integral part of the Earth system rather than merely an external forcing factor. The delineation of the beginning of the Palaeoanthropocene will require an increase in the understanding and precision of palaeoclimate indicators, the recognition of archaeological sites as environmental archives, and inter-linking palaeoclimate, palaeoenvironmental changes and human development with changes in the distribution of Quaternary plant and animal species and socio-economic models of population subsistence and demise. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.