Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging

Globalization has undeniably impacted the Earth’s ecosystems, but it has also influenced how we think about natural systems. Three fourths of the world’s forests are now altered by human activity, which challenges our concepts of native ecosystems. The dichotomies of pristine vs. disturbed as well a...

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Autores principales:	Susan Cordell, Celia Bardwell-Jones, Rebecca Ostertag, Amanda Uowolo, Nicole DiManno
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	non-native native/alien binary globalization invasion Hawai‘i Evolution QH359-425 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:aae22289eafe4d8c8f8c3e8f945bf4392021-11-16T07:18:55ZSpecies Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging2296-701X10.3389/fevo.2021.726571https://doaj.org/article/aae22289eafe4d8c8f8c3e8f945bf4392021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.726571/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2296-701XGlobalization has undeniably impacted the Earth’s ecosystems, but it has also influenced how we think about natural systems. Three fourths of the world’s forests are now altered by human activity, which challenges our concepts of native ecosystems. The dichotomies of pristine vs. disturbed as well as our view of native and non-native species, have blurred; allowing us to acknowledge new paradigms about how humans and nature interact. We now understand that the use of militaristic language to define the perceived role of a plant species is holding us back from the fact that novel systems (new combinations of all species) can often provide valuable ecosystem services (i.e., water, carbon, nutrients, cultural, and recreation) for creatures (including humans). In reality, ecosystems exist in a gradient from native to intensely managed – and “non-nativeness” is not always a sign of a species having negative effects. In fact, there are many contemporary examples of non-native species providing critical habitat for endangered species or preventing erosion in human-disturbed watersheds. For example, of the 8,000–10,000 non-native species introduced to Hawai‘i, less than 10% of these are self-sustaining and 90 of those pose a danger to native biota and are considered invasive. In this paper, we explore the native/non-native binary, the impacts of globalization and the political language of invasion through the lens of conservation biology and sociology with a tropical island perspective. This lens gives us the opportunity to offer a place-based approach toward the use of empirical observation of novel species interactions that may help in evaluating management strategies that support biodiversity and ecosystem services. Finally, we offer a first attempt at conceptualizing a site-specific approach to develop “metrics of belonging” within an ecosystem.Susan CordellCelia Bardwell-JonesRebecca OstertagAmanda UowoloNicole DiMannoFrontiers Media S.A.articlenon-nativenative/alien binaryglobalizationinvasionHawai‘iEvolutionQH359-425EcologyQH540-549.5ENFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol 9 (2021)
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spellingShingle	non-native native/alien binary globalization invasion Hawai‘i Evolution QH359-425 Ecology QH540-549.5 Susan Cordell Celia Bardwell-Jones Rebecca Ostertag Amanda Uowolo Nicole DiManno Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging
description	Globalization has undeniably impacted the Earth’s ecosystems, but it has also influenced how we think about natural systems. Three fourths of the world’s forests are now altered by human activity, which challenges our concepts of native ecosystems. The dichotomies of pristine vs. disturbed as well as our view of native and non-native species, have blurred; allowing us to acknowledge new paradigms about how humans and nature interact. We now understand that the use of militaristic language to define the perceived role of a plant species is holding us back from the fact that novel systems (new combinations of all species) can often provide valuable ecosystem services (i.e., water, carbon, nutrients, cultural, and recreation) for creatures (including humans). In reality, ecosystems exist in a gradient from native to intensely managed – and “non-nativeness” is not always a sign of a species having negative effects. In fact, there are many contemporary examples of non-native species providing critical habitat for endangered species or preventing erosion in human-disturbed watersheds. For example, of the 8,000–10,000 non-native species introduced to Hawai‘i, less than 10% of these are self-sustaining and 90 of those pose a danger to native biota and are considered invasive. In this paper, we explore the native/non-native binary, the impacts of globalization and the political language of invasion through the lens of conservation biology and sociology with a tropical island perspective. This lens gives us the opportunity to offer a place-based approach toward the use of empirical observation of novel species interactions that may help in evaluating management strategies that support biodiversity and ecosystem services. Finally, we offer a first attempt at conceptualizing a site-specific approach to develop “metrics of belonging” within an ecosystem.
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title	Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging
title_short	Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging
title_full	Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging
title_fullStr	Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging
title_full_unstemmed	Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging
title_sort	species home-making in ecosystems: toward place-based ecological metrics of belonging
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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Species Home-Making in Ecosystems: Toward Place-Based Ecological Metrics of Belonging

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