Conundrums, Paradoxes, and Surprises: A Brave New World of Biodiversity Conservation

摘要: Anthropogenic activity is altering the global disturbance regime through such processes as urbanization, deforestation, and climate change. These events alter environmental conditions under which organisms live adapt trigger succession, thus setting biota in motion both ecological evolutionary space. The result mixing of species from different biogeographic regions formation novel communities plants animals. In this essay I present point view that remixing a natural response to changing condition biophysical environment. assembly systems reflects healthy adapting acute chronic anthropogenic disturbances. disturbances add uncertainty state environment by inducing directionality unpredictability regime, opposed cyclic predictable patterns historical If correct, paradoxes surprises are being recorded scientific literature should not surprise us nor appear paradoxical. Rather, they reflect normal responses magnitude change generated activity. current we must manage tropical resources confront with conundrums be approached caution. Land managers need consider their options terms cost opportunities success when focus attention on restoring can no longer exist planet.