New paper on the relationship between human cultural practice, ecosystem complexity, and biodiversity. We point out that biodiversity is tied to recursive human-ecosystem relations and that human agency in the deep past often also had curative biodiversity effects: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Scien...

Today's biodiversity crisis fundamentally threatens the habitability of the planet, thus ranking among the primary human challenges of our time. Much emphasis is currently placed on the loss of biodiv...