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PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY-EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 664-673Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309133314540930
Keywords
biodiversity; biogeography; conservation biogeography; land-cover change; no-analog climate; no-analog species assemblage; novel ecosystem; paleoecology; species extinction
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Humans have altered the land cover and biogeochemical cycles of Earth, with many implications for how the study of the distributions of organisms should change. A new biogeography of the Anthropocene could help to develop additional criteria to evaluate the degree and timing of human impacts, and innovative ways to proactively manage biological diversity. Many recent studies have used paleoecological methods to evaluate no-analog conditions in the past, or modeling to evaluate possible futures. Additional approaches are needed for assessment and prediction of how new groupings of species will function ecologically under future climatic and landscape conditions, including methods for studying the effects of biotic homogenization, species extinctions, introduced species, and altered ecosystem processes.
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