"Ecological change is as varied and locally specific as the heterogeneous social and physical environments in which it takes place," the book claims.
New Changing Combinations of Species Mark Novelty Areas undergoing ecological change, as changing temperatures and precipitation create new weather regimes, and species shuffle, or die out.
We further emphasize needed interdisciplinary work addressing changing climates, altered disturbance patterns, intensive herbivory, and human drivers of ecological change.
The ecological change was almost instantaneous.
A fishing bonanza would require big ecological change.
Compressing centuries of ecological change into decades could have disastrous consequences.
"It is the single largest ecological change in our lifetime," he said.
Researchers observe unsafe levels of pollution, ecological change and resource demand, with potentially catastrophic consequences for our global civilisation.
The effects might be so insidious, they wrote, that they would be attributed to some slow-moving force like evolution or ecological change.
Over the next decade, the couple became internationally known for their studies of long-range thinking about social, cultural and ecological change.
But as humans come to be adversely affected by the stepped-up ecological change, they also increasingly look to help Mother Nature out in more active ways.
