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Will Steffen, ‘The Anthropocene, global change and sleeping giants: where on Earth are we going?’ Carbon Balance Manag. 2006; 1: 3. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1186/1750-0680-1-3 PMCID: PMC1513134 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. 2. Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Alan Smith, Tiffany L Barry, Angela L Coe, Paul R Bown, Patrick Brenchley, David Cantrill, Andrew Gale, Philip Gibbard, F John Gregory, Mark W Hounslow, Andrew C Kerr, Paul Pearson, Robert Knox, John Powell, Colin Waters, John Marshall, Michael Oates, Peter Rawson, Philip Stone. ‘Are we now living in the Anthropocene?’ GSA Today (2008) Volume: 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 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.

3. Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Richard Fortey, Alan Smith, Tiffany L. Barry, Angela L. Coe, Paul R. Bown, Peter F. Rawson, Andrew Gale, Philip Gibbard, F. John Gregory, Mark W. Hounslow, Andrew C. Kerr, Paul Pearson, Robert Knox, John Powell, Colin Waters, John Marshall, Michael Oates and Philip Stone ‘Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 13 March 2011 vol. 369 no. 1938 1036-1055 doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0315 http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1938/1036.full.pdf+html 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.

4. Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Will Steffen. ‘The New World of the Anthropocene.’ Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44, 2228–2231 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903118j 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.

5. 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’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 362.1478: 175-87. 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. 6. Valentí Rull, ‘Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective.’ The Open Ecology Journal, (2010), 3: 1-5. www.benthamscience.com/open/toecolj/articles/V003/S10001TOECOLJ/1TOECOLJ.pdf 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.

7. Jeremy B. Jackson, ‘Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 105 (Supplement 1, August 2008): 11458-11465. 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.

8. Harold A. Mooney ‘The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365 (1537): 31-39. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.pmc/articles/PMC2842713/?tool=pubmed 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.

9. Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll ‘The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution.’ doi: 10.1073/pnas.091092498 PNAS May 8, 2001 vol. 98 no. 10 5389-5392 http://www.pnas.org/content/98/10/5389.full 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.

10. S.A. Wooldridge ‘Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis.’ Biogeosciences Discussions 5 (2008) 2401-2423. www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/5/2401/2008 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.

11. Robert. M. May ‘Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences v. 365 (1537): 41-47. 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. 12. Stephen Jay Gould ‘The Evolution of Life on Earth.’ Scientific American (October 1994) http://brembs.net.gould.html 13. Valenti Rull ‘Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?’ EMBO Reports 10.11 (2009): 1191-1195 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. 14. Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton ‘Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time’ Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2008) 275: 759-765. Doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1370 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. 15. Jessica H. Whitesidea, Paul E. Olsenb, Timothy Eglinton, Michael E. Brookfield, and Raymond N. Sambrotto ‘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. 2010 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 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. 16. Richard J. Behl ‘Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise.’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 2011 April 12; 108(15): 5925–5926. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1101146108 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076871/?tool=pmcentrez 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.

17. Don N. Page ‘Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument.’ http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.4153v1.pdf?