Anthony David Barnosky
{{Short description|American academic}}
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Anthony David Barnosky is an ecologist, geologist and biologist (paleoecology). He was Professor at the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley until his retirement. His research is concerned with the relationship between climate change and mass extinctions.
Life
Work
His work on tipping elements in the Earth System has led Barnosky to work for clearer efforts in climate policy to make possible the two-degree target for increase in average temperature rise. Barnosky stresses that climate change is a major cause of displacement and the cause of the current mass extinction.
A key concern is the concept of "tipping point"
Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the global ecosystem as a whole can react in the same way and is approaching a planetary-scale critical transition as a result of human influence. The plausibility of a planetary-scale 'tipping point' highlights the need to improve biological forecasting by detecting early warning signs of critical transitions on global as well as local scales, and by detecting feedbacks that promote such transitions. It is also necessary to address root causes of how humans are forcing biological changes.
See also
Selected publications
- Anthony D. Barnosky: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming. 2009, {{ISBN|9781597261975}}
- Anthony D. Barnosky: [https://www.ucpress.edu/ebook.php?isbn=9780520959095 Dodging Extinction Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth. 2014], {{ISBN|9780520274372}}
- Anthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly : [https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/234932401 Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge?] 2016, {{ISBN|9781250051158}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Steffen|first1=Will|last2=Rockström|first2=Johan|last3=Richardson|first3=Katherine|last4=Lenton|first4=Timothy M.|last5=Folke|first5=Carl|last6=Liverman|first6=Diana|last7=Summerhayes|first7=Colin P.|last8=Barnosky|first8=Anthony D.|last9=Cornell|first9=Sarah E.|last10=Crucifix|first10=Michel|last11=Donges|first11=Jonathan F.|last12=Fetzer|first12=Ingo|last13=Lade|first13=Steven J.|last14=Scheffer|first14=Marten|last15=Winkelmann|first15=Ricarda|author15-link=Ricarda Winkelmann|last16=Schellnhuber|first16=Hans Joachim|title=Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=115|issue=33|year=2018|pages=8252–8259|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.1810141115|pmid=30082409|pmc=6099852|bibcode=2018PNAS..115.8252S|doi-access=free}} [https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/33/8252.full.pdf pdf]
- {{cite journal|last1=Villavicencio|first1=Natalia A.|last2=Lindsey|first2=Emily L.|last3=Martin|first3=Fabiana M.|last4=Borrero|first4=Luis A.|last5=Moreno|first5=Patricio I.|last6=Marshall|first6=Charles R.|last7=Barnosky|first7=Anthony D.|title=Combination of humans, climate, and vegetation change triggered Late Quaternary megafauna extinction in the Última Esperanza region, southern Patagonia, Chile|journal=Ecography|volume=39|issue=2|year=2016|pages=125–140|issn=0906-7590|doi=10.1111/ecog.01606|doi-access=free}} [http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/barnosky/Villavicencio_et_al-2015-Ecography.pdf pdf]
- {{cite journal|last1=Barnosky|first1=Anthony D.|last2=Hadly|first2=Elizabeth A.|last3=Bascompte|first3=Jordi|last4=Berlow|first4=Eric L.|last5=Brown|first5=James H.|last6=Fortelius|first6=Mikael|last7=Getz|first7=Wayne M.|last8=Harte|first8=John|last9=Hastings|first9=Alan|last10=Marquet|first10=Pablo A.|last11=Martinez|first11=Neo D.|last12=Mooers|first12=Arne|last13=Roopnarine|first13=Peter|last14=Vermeij|first14=Geerat|last15=Williams|first15=John W.|last16=Gillespie|first16=Rosemary|last17=Kitzes|first17=Justin|last18=Marshall|first18=Charles|last19=Matzke|first19=Nicholas|last20=Mindell|first20=David P.|last21=Revilla|first21=Eloy|last22=Smith|first22=Adam B.|title=Approaching a state shift in Earth's biosphere|journal=Nature|volume=486|issue=7401|year=2012|pages=52–58|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/nature11018|pmid=22678279|bibcode=2012Natur.486...52B|hdl=10261/55208|s2cid=4788164|hdl-access=free}}
References
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External links
- {{wikisource inline|Tipping points in the climate system}}
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Category:21st-century American biologists
Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty