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Anthroecology
Ecology in an Anthropogenic Biosphere
Human societies have been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia.
Anthroecology theory explains why behaviorally modern human societies, unlike
those of any
prior species, gained the capacity to transform the biosphere and the entire Earth system. Anthroecology theory couples
human societies with the biosphere through evolutionary processes of
sociocultural niche construction, supporting scientific efforts to
investigate, understand, and address the ultimate causes of
anthropogenic environmental change, not just the consequences, in an
increasingly anthropogenic biosphere.
Core paper Ellis, E.C. 2015. Ecology in an Anthropogenic Biosphere.
Ecological
Monographs: 85(3):287–331 [download]
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