This review focuses on biotic responses during intervals of time in the fossil record when the
magnitude and rate of climate change exceeded or were comparable with those predicted to …

The integration of fossils, phylogeny, and geochronology has resulted in an increasingly
well-resolved timetable of evolution. Life appears to have taken root before the earliest …

The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this
essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role …

There is little dispute within the scientific community that humans are changing Earth's
climate on a decadal to century time-scale. By the end of this century, without a reduction in …

Debate continues to rage between enthusiasts for climate change versus humans as a
cause of the catastrophic faunal extinctions that have occurred in the wake of human arrival …

Environmental histories that span the last full glacial cycle and are representative of regional
change in Australia are scarce, hampering assessment of environmental change preceding …

The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most
powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace …

We are already experiencing the rapid pace of environmental change in the Anthropocene,
necessitating the development of new tools and techniques for measuring changes in …

For almost every topic discussed in the following pages the data are insuffi-cient. The
student who attempts interpretations under these circumstances does so in the face of …

The earth is constantly changing, never static: a dynamic system in which all parts interact, at
some scale, with all other parts. Involved are all components of the earth system—the …