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Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

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Kidwell, Susan M.·2015·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1403660112PMC PMC4413286
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With overwhelming evidence of change in habitats, biologists today must assume that few, if any, study areas are natural and that biological variability is superimposed on trends rather than stationary means. Paleobiological data from the youngest sedimentary record, including death assemblages actively accumulating on modern land surfaces and seabeds, provide unique information on the status of present-day species, communities, and biomes over the last few decades to millennia and on their responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Key advances have established the accuracy and resolving power of paleobiological information derived from naturally preserved remains and of proxy evidence for environmental conditions and sample age so that fossil data can both implicate and exonerate human stressors as the drivers of biotic change and permit the effects of multiple stressors to be disentangled. Legacy effects from Industrial and even pre-Industrial anthropogenic extirpations, introductions, (de)nutrification, and habitat conversion commonly emerge as the primary factors underlying the present-day status of populations and communities; within the last 2 million years, climate change has rarely been sufficient to drive major extinction pulses absent other human pressures, which are now manifold. Young fossil records also provide rigorous access to the baseline composition and dynamics of modern-day biota under pre-Industrial conditions, where insights include the millennial-scale persistence of community structures, the dominant role of physical environmental conditions rather than biotic interactions in determining community composition and disassembly, and the existence of naturally alternating states.

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Authors
Kidwell, S. M.
Affiliations
University of Chicago (US)
Corresponding author
Kidwell, Susan M.
ORCID
Kidwell, Susan M.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Published
2015-04-20
Volume
112
Issue
16
Pages
4922-4929
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1403660112
PMC
PMC4413286
OpenAlex
W2012932329
Cited by
169
References
144
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 9
FWCI
21.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.pnas.org/site/misc/userlicense.xhtml (vor, 184 d)
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (EAR-0345897, EAR-1124189)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Keywords
Anthropocene, paleobiology, human impact on biodiversity, legacy effects, species introduction, habitat conversion, community composition, community disassembly, pre-industrial baseline, climate change, extinction pulses, environmental proxies
MeSH terms
Environment, Fossils, Humans, Human Activities, Models, Biological, Paleontology, Time Factors, Earth, Planet

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