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The magnitude of biotic and human impacts on ecosystem processes becomes clear when summed at the global scale. This chapter describes changes in the biogeochemical cycles of the Earth System that have occurred during the Anthropocene.

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    F. Stuart Chapin III

  2. School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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  3. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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Chapin, F.S., Matson, P.A., Vitousek, P.M. (2011). Changes in the Earth System. In: Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9504-9_14

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