Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)

Hughes, Alice C.; Tougeron, Kévin; Martin, Dominic A.; Menga, Filippo; Rosado, Bruno H. P.; Villasante, Sebastián; Madgulkar, Shweta; Gonçalves, Fernando; Diele‐Viegas, Luisa Maria; Colla, Sheila R.; Kamimura, Vitor de Andrade; Caggiano, Holly; Melo, Felipe; Dias, Marcelo Guilherme de Oliveira; Kellner, Elke; Couto, Edivando Vitor do

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110053

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“…For biodiversity, the growth of unsustainable human consumption (Hughes, Tougeron, Martin, Menga, Rosado, Villasante, Madgulkar, Gonçalves, Geneletti, et al., 2023) has resulted in a ‘sustainability paradox’ (Chaudhary, 2022), with the development of a global human niche juxtaposed against the growing climate and ecological crises. The structure of human populations, with growing demands and unequal resource distribution (Adams, 2012; Hughes, Tougeron, Martin, Menga, Rosado, Villasante, Madgulkar, Gonçalves, Diele‐Viegas, et al., 2023; Hughes, Tougeron, Martin, Menga, Rosado, Villasante, Madgulkar, Gonçalves, Geneletti, et al., 2023), is increasingly converting natural ecosystems to an altered state, either functional and fit for human development or into dysfunctional and degraded conditions, and not a state for ecological diversity or function (Watson et al., 2016).…”

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A biogeographic–macroecological perspective on the rising novelty of the biosphere in the Anthropocene

Kerr,

Ordonez,

Riede

et al. 2023

Journal of Biogeography

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The concept of novel ecosystems has been discussed for over more than a decade to describe ecosystems that have an altered species composition and function, such that the community has crossed a threshold forbidding a return to its historical state. While spatial and temporal community compositional change has been well studied in biogeography, studies on novel ecosystems in a modern context are few and tend towards classifying novelty based on a static baseline. Given that the abiotic and biotic drivers of novelty are in a state of rapid change, and reaching levels unprecedented within the last hundred thousand to million years, defining such a threshold requires additional thought. Here, we discuss a biogeographical–macroecological perspective on novel ecosystems, exploring how such a threshold for novelty can be defined in an environment undergoing progressive global change and suggesting pathways through which the emergence and spread of novelty can be further explored, understood and managed.

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