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From Cohen et al., 10.1021/ja101766r

The late summer holiday has been and gone, and there’s definitely a hint of autumn in the air, here in London. Like the ever-changing seasons science marches on, and so does progress at Faculty of 1000: rumours of the new website launch are circulating, and I’ve been promised a peek at the internal beta this Friday. With any luck, anybody going to Science Online London might get to see it too.

At F1000 this week a number of papers have caught my eye, for different reasons. First up, it might seem obvious to say that we humans have changed the look of the terrestrial biosphere. But it is true, and now it’s been quantified. Over the last 300 years it has changed from mostly wild to mostly anthropogenic¹. The strength of this analysis seems to be the definition and use of ‘anthromes’