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.

• 2018: Evolving the Anthropocene: Linking multi-level selection with long-term social-ecological change. Sustainability Science 13:119–128.
• 2016: Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene. Nature  540:192–93. [download]
• The Anthropocene Biosphere Project: Supporting 'Open Interdisciplinarity' through Blogging. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32:1-3.
  
• 2016: Evolving human landscapes: a virtual laboratory approach. Journal of Land Use Science 11:642-671. [download].

• Anthroecology @ HumanLandscapes
• Social Evolution Forum
• Evolving Toward a Better Anthropocene @FutureEarth
• Inhabiting the Anthropocene
• Why is human niche construction reshaping planet Earth?

Recent Presentations

Shaping Nature on a Human Planet

Landscapes of the Anthropocene: Program 2. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. November 22, 2016. Washington, DC USA [abstract] [facebook video]

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Ecology in a Human Biosphere

Friday Evening Lecture Series – Glassman Lecture, Marine Biological Laboratory. August 14, 2015, Woods Hole, MA, USA. [Video]