Extinction

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ISBN: tbc

edited by Claire Colebrook

Introduction

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The Anthropocene

Will Steffen
The Anthropocene, Global Change and Sleeping Giants: Where on Earth Are We Going?
Jan Zalasiewicz et al.
Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene?
Jan Zalasiewicz et al.
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Will Steffen
The New World of the Anthropocene
K. J. Willis
How Can a Knowledge of the Past Help to Conserve the Future? Biodiversity Conservation and the Relevance of Long-term Ecological Studies
Valentí Rull
Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective
Jeremy B. Jackson
Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean
Harold A. Mooney
The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis
Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll
The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution

Mass Extinction

S. A. Wooldridge
Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis

Comprehending Extinction

Robert. M. May Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World
Stephen Jay Gould The Evolution of Life on Earth
Valenti Rull
Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?
Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton
Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time
Jessica H. Whiteside et al.
Compound-specific Carbon Isotopes from Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Eruptions Directly Linked to the end-Triassic Mass Extinction
Richard J. Behl
Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise
Don N. Page
Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument

Attributions

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