Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene

• DOI: 10.1111/pala.12618
• Publication Date: 2022-08-26T12:14:35Z
• Authors: Mark Williams; Reinhold Leinfelder; Anthony D. Barnosky; Martin J. Head; Francine M. G. Mc...; Alejandro Cearreta; Stephen Himson; Rachael Holmes; Colin N. Waters; Jan Zalasiewicz; Simon Turner; Mary McGann; Elizabeth A. Hadly; M. Allison Stegner; Paul Michael Pilk...; Jérôme Kaiser; Juan Carlos Berrio; Ian P. Wilkinson; Jens Zinke; Kristine L. Delong
• Keywords: Anthropocene; Appropriation; Fossil Record; Global Change

Abstract We examine three distinctive biostratigraphic signatures of humans associated with hunting and gathering, landscape domestication globalization. All have significant fossil records regional importance that can be correlated inter‐regionally help describe the developing pattern human expansion appropriation resources. While none individual first or last appearances provide a globally isochronous marker, all overlap stratigraphically, in they are part continuum change, complex patterns. Here we show during later stages globalization, late nineteenth to twentieth century species translocations used build an interconnected web palaeontological correlation decadal sub‐decadal precision dovetails other stratigraphic markers for Anthropocene. This is also proxy accelerating extinction state shift biosphere century.