Highlights•Anthromes are multifunctional landscapes combining used and novel
ecosystems.•Novel ecosystems currently cover a greater global extent than …

The nature and extent of environmental disturbance associated with mining commonly
entails completely new and challenging combinations of climate, lithology and landform …

In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating
pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios …

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist A provocative exploration of the
“new ecology” and why most of what we think we know about alien species is wrong For a …

Premise of research. The Late Paleozoic Ice Age was the last extensive pre-Pleistocene ice
age. It includes many climate changes of different intensities, permitting examination of …

Sufficient food production for a growing human population has become an issue of global
concern. Almost all of the world's fertile land is currently in use and arable land areas cannot …

Growing attention to novel and designed ecosystems, and the confusion that follows from
the overlap of these distinct ecosystem approaches, risks a loss of focus on ecological …

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as
intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen …

Urban areas are continuously subjected to anthropogenic transformations that result in the
emergence of novel urban ecosystems. To prepare for and respond to contemporary …

The humid highlands of the Galapagos are the islands' most biologically productive regions
and a key habitat for endemic animal and plant species. These areas are crucial for the …