We can then turn to the issues of how a just society can create or modify environments and practices in ways that permit all, or almost all, its members to engage in these activities.
Five seropositive yellow pygmy rice rats were captured in modified environments: one was captured along a road border, two were captured in peridomestic environments, and two were captured in shrublands, at <150 m from homes.
Given the globally declining status of amphibians, understanding why some species are found in heavily modified environments is of considerable interest.
Crop weeds develop in highly modified environments and are one of the most severe threats to agriculture worldwide, because their invasive nature determines competition for resources with crops and at the same time they can be hosts for pests and diseases.
Because behaviour mediates interactions between an individual and its environment, the ability of organisms to behave appropriately under these new conditions is crucial for determining their immediate success or failure in these modified environments.
Attraction of wild fish to salmon farms is likely to have a range of fitness consequences due to the modified environment fish farms induce, both in the altered trophic network around farms and the close proximity of hundreds of thousands to millions of farmed salmonids.
In a different vein, recent work on niche construction the process by which organisms successfully modify their environments in ways that benefit themselves and their offspring (Odling-Smee, Laland, and Feldman 2003)—has also suggests a role for culture in altering natural selection.
Direct observation of WES activities indicated that participating stores made changes to modify their environments in the expected direction (e.g., displayed point-of-purchase signs for fruits/vegetables).
Humans can thus innovate and consciously modify the environment in a way no other species has achieved.
"What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions".
