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BellingenNSWHuman-made ecosystems: Ecological novelty is now the "new normal" for our planet"30-40% of the world's terrestrial ecosystems have already transformed into novel states.""O'ahu as an "amazing crystal ball" that offers a glimpse of the future of our planet if humans continue to damage environments and drive species to extinction.""Hawaii's O'ahu's lowland forests are now almost entirely devoid of the plants and animals that grew here for millions of years before the arrival of humans. Settlers brought extinctions by cutting down trees to make farms and introducing voracious predators and disease-carrying animals. Today, these tropical forests are a tapestry of non-native species introduced from every corner of the planet: Brazilian peppertree, Indonesian cinnamon and roseleaf bramble from the Himalayas and Australia. Most of the animals, including all the birds that Tarwater mentioned earlier, are also alien.""We like to think of O'ahu as the cautionary tale for all the other Pacific Islands and the Hawaiian Islands. It's what you don't want to have happen – Corey Tarwater" >> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans</a>Towards a novel biosphere in 2300: rapid and extensive global and biome-wide climatic novelty in the Anthropocene <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0022" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2023.0022</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biosphere</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/loss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#loss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/InvasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InvasiveSpecies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/degradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#degradation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SettlerSociety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cattle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dogs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/grasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grasses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NovelEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NovelEcosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/weeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weeds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#restoration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pacific</a>

PatrickMeyfroidtQ. on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> : Is there any evidence of speciation or another form of increase in biodiversity caused by humans?Not geographical distribution; introduction, restoration, managed landscapes w. more bdiv than "natural" ecosystems, etc, I know, but these are *changing the spatial distribution* of biodiversity, not *creating* new one. Ok for genetic diversity of domesticated species, like dogs, but any evidence on wild species?<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NovelEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NovelEcosystems</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Biogeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biogeography</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anthropocene</a>

Zurell lab @unipotsdamRT @JCSvenning@twitter.com: 6 open 2-year postdoc positions in <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/megafauna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megafauna</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystem</a> ecology, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/macroecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macroecology</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/vegetation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegetation</a> dynamics, trophic <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rewilding</a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/novelecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novelecosystems</a> & <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/paleoecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleoecology</a> - see later in this thread @EconovoAU @EcoinfAU @BiochangeAU <a href="https://twitter.com/jcsvenning/status/1610974630604607488?s=46&t=VI3DntWshzrd0UUCuuXLuA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jcsvenning/status/1610974630604607488?s=46&t=VI3DntWshzrd0UUCuuXLuA</a>

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