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Steffen, W. (2006) 'The Anthropocene, global change and sleeping giants: where on Earth are we going?’, Carbon Balance Manag. 1: 3. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1186/1750-0680-1-3. PMCID: PMC1513134.
http://www.cbmjournal.com/content/1/1/3
Licence: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Zalasiewicz, J. et al. (2008) ‘Are we now living in the Anthropocene?’, GSA Today, Vol. 18, Issue: 2. Publisher: Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Pl, Boulder, CO, 80301-1806, USA, Pages: 4.
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/18/2/pdf/i1052-5173-18-2-4.pdf
Licence: Freely available on the website of the Geological Society of America and made available here via a link.

Zalasiewicz, J. et al. (2011) ‘Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, A 13 March, Vol. 369 No. 1938: 1036-1055. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0315.
http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/services/downloadRegister/970105/Top_copy_Stratigraphy_of_the_Anthropocene_2_8_10.doc
Licence: Available here via a link to author Mark Hounslow's self-archived manuscript on Lancaster University's website.

Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M. & Steffen, W. (2010) ‘The New World of the Anthropocene.’ Environ. Sci. Technol. 44, 2228–2231.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903118j
Licence: Copyright © 2010 American Chemical Society. Freely available on the ACS Publications website and made available here via a link.

Willis, K. J. (2007) ‘How can a Knowledge of the Past Help to Conserve the Future? Biodiversity conservation and the Relevance of Long-term Ecological Studies’. Philos Trans R Soc, Lond B Biol Sci. February 28; 362(1478): 175–187. Published online 2007 January 9. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1977. PMCID: PMC2311423.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2311423/?tool=pubmed
Licence: Copyright © 2007 The Royal Society. Available via a link to PubMed Central.

Rull, V. (2010) ‘Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective.’ The Open Ecology Journal, 3: 1-5.
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toecolj/articles/V003/S10001TOECOLJ/1TOECOLJ.pdf
Licence: © Valentí Rull; Licensee Bentham Open. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/ 3.0/), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution & reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.

Jackson, J. B. (2008) ‘Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean', Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 105 (Supplement 1, August): 11458-11465.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/08/08/0802812105.full.pdf+html
Licence: Freely available on the website of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and made available here via a link.

Mooney, H. A. (2010) ‘The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365 (1537): 31-39.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842713/?tool=pubmed
Licence: Copyright © 2010 The Royal Society. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Myers, N. & Knoll, A. H. (2001) ‘The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution.’ PNAS May 8, Vol. 98 No. 10: 5389-5392. doi: 10.1073/pnas.091092498.
http://www.pnas.org/content/98/10/5389.full
Licence: Copyright © 2001, The National Academy of Sciences. Freely available on the website of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and made available here via a link.

Wooldridge, S. A. (2008) ‘Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis.’ Biogeosciences Discussions 5: 2401-2423.
http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/5/2401/2008/bgd-5-2401-2008.pdf
Licence: © Author(s) 2008. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

May, R. M. (2010) ‘Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences v. 365 (1537): 41-47.
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1537/41.full
Licence: © 2010 The Royal Society. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Gould, S. J. (1994) ‘The Evolution of Life on Earth.’ Scientific American (October).
http://brembs.net/gould.html
Licence: Available here via a link to the author's self-archived copy on his website.

Rull, V. (2009) ‘Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?’, EMBO Reports 10.11: 1191-1195. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0223. PMCID: PMC2775185
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775185/
Licence: Copyright © 2009, European Molecular Biology Organization. Freely available in PubMed Central and made available here via a link.

Sahney, S. & Benton, M. J. (2008) ‘Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 759-765. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1370.
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1636/759.full
Licence: © 2008 The Royal Society. Freely available on the website of the Royal Society and made available here via a link.

Whiteside, J. H. et al. (2010) ‘Compound-specific Carbon Isotopes from Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Eruptions directly Linked to the end-Triassic Mass Extinction.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U S A. April 13; 107(15): 6721–6725. Published online 2010 March 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001706107.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872409/pdf/pnas.1001706107.pdf?tool=pmcentrez
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Behl, R. J. (2011) ‘Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. April 12; 108(15): 5925–5926. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1101146108.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076871/?tool=pmcentrez
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Page, D. N. (2009) ‘Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument.’
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.4153v1.pdf
Licence: Freely available in arxiv.org and made available here via a link.