Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?
Ian D Rotherham
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| This book addresses critical issues of changing ecology and ecosystems consequent on urbanisation, globalisation, climate change, and human cultural influences. Human-induced and natural climate changes and globalisation accelerate hybridisation; anthropogenic influences causing disturbance, nutrient enrichment, habitat replacement (formation and destruction), and global dispersal of species. The ecological processes driving changes are ‘natural’ mechanisms of ecological successions and changes, and of species and ecosystem hybridisation or adaptation. Today species mix at rates unprecedented in biodiversity evolution history; with the ‘Anthropocene’, the latest great evolutionary epoch, nature adapts to a new canvas and changed template. |  |
Ian Rotherham sets out an agenda for understanding and managing recombinant ecologies. That there is much to think about in recombinant ecology is explained these writings, not least how we live with and manage these new systems. For, despite the noise and clamour around rewilding, they will be our new wild places, they will offer homes for species endangered in their original locales, and they will create conditions, which will allow many species to flourish in old and new combinations. And, of course, some species will be threatened by this new ecology – but they may well have been under threat from environmental change already.
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