{"id":31973,"date":"2011-02-27T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/are-there-aliens-worth-saving-the-loom\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:27","slug":"are-there-aliens-worth-saving-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/are-there-aliens-worth-saving-the-loom.php","title":{"rendered":"Are there aliens worth saving? | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Behold the Japanese white-eye, considered an invasive species in its new home in Hawaii. Yet the bird does something that conservation biologists might considered useful for sustaining ecosystems: it spreads the seeds of native Hawaiian plants. Get rid of the Japanese white-eye, and you get rid of its service.<\/p>

In Yale Environment 360 this morning, I take a look<\/a> at a controversial proposal that’s making its way into the peer-reviewed biology literature: some introduced species are actually beneficial. I wrote about the complicated relationship between non-native species and biodiversity a couple years ago in the New York Times<\/a>. In my new article, I focus on two new papers (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) in which scientists are advancing these ideas further. Reconsidering exotic species is just one part of a bigger vision they’re offering: in a human-dominated world, we will often have to give up the idea of restoring ecosystems to a pre-human state; instead, we should focus on ensuring the ecosystems are as resilient as possible, because they’re going to be facing even tougher times in years to come.<\/p>

As one of the scientists say, the idea is now edgy, ...<\/p>

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