His latest book How Soon Is Now? explores how the complex failures of capitalism have fostered worldwide systems collapse, spiritual despair, and an ecological breaking point.
When such ecological barriers break down for animals--for example, when two species of Darwin's finches colonize the same Galápagos island--hybridization can occur, blurring the lines between species.
Similar changes might occur for species pairs with allotopic distribution patterns, e.g. if ecological barriers break down due to habitat deterioration or alteration [ 24, 29, 30].
Yeasts, which are single-celled fungi, are everywhere in nature and can perform many ecological functions, like breaking down dead plant tissue and encouraging root growth.
In Central Africa, forest elephants act as ecological filters by breaking tree saplings and stripping them of foliage.
The activities of these beetles are linked to a wide variety of ecological processes including breaking down and moving excrement, the incorporation of organic matter into the soil, bioturbation (i.e., moving and mixing soil particles), controlling the parasites and flies that affect livestock, pets and people, and secondary seed dispersal, see [18] and references cited therein.
Host shift is one of the main ecological processes that can break patterns of strict cospeciation between tightly bound interacting species [ 8- 11], as observed in some cases affecting postulated strict co-evolutionary pattern in specific pollination mutualisms [ 12].
We can break the narrowly defined box of what is considered politically possible, or we can break the ecological carrying capacity of the planet.
Here, fluid notions of ecological and economic citizenship break down the binary of tourist-local into slippery fleeting moments of un-othering — reproducing campos and the island of Certosa as bodies of in between.
It is assumed that the chain of the above listed events from cultivation to ecological harm is obviously broken at one or more links [7].
