Causes

The Salton Sea: A Case Study in Hybridity

This essay explores the Salton Sea as a case study for the entwined relationship between human history and environmental context ...

Non-native species in the Anthropocene

Breaking dispersal barriers through human transport   Summary: Trade routes and the evolution of transportation technology have increased thefrequency and ...

Quantifying Novelty

Executive Abstract Since its introduction, the term “ecological novelty” has generated quite a lot of controversy in the scientific community.  ...

Abiotic Novelty

Dams are ubiquitous and pervasive drivers of abiotic novelty; they create novel habitats for non-native species and can facilitate their ...

Harvest

That humans are affecting ecosystems across local to planetary scales is news to relatively few people today. Anthropogenic climate change, ...