Petra van Cronenburg<p>Humans constantly change and even destroy <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> - what happens then? It's called 'novel ecosystems'. "They now exist as self-sustaining systems. These are wild but changed ecosystems. They have passed some critical threshold which means they are unlikely to ever go back to how they were before." <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> has become a laboratory for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologists</span></a> to study such "freakosystems": <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2025040</span><span class="invisible">3-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anthropocene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wilderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wilderness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nativeSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nativeSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/invasiveSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>invasiveSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a></p>