![]() ![]() ![]() This is a major change in paradigm for most natural scientists concerned with ecology and environments, but it remains a critical advance in efforts to better understand the biosphere as it exists today, and even in the deeper past. This new model of the biosphere moves us away from an outdated view of the world as “natural ecosystems with humans disturbing them” and towards a vision of “human systems with natural ecosystems embedded within them” (also known as social-ecological systems or coupled human and natural systems). While anthromes should not be thought of as a replacement for existing biome systems based on vegetation and climate, anthromes offer a more objective view of the terrestrial biosphere in its contemporary anthropogenic state. Ellis, in Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, 2020 Ecological Science, Theory, and Education in an Anthropogenic Biosphereīiomes are introduced as the fundamental units of the biosphere in nearly every introductory biology, Earth science, and environmental science textbook. ![]()
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