Remaking Nature

Explore the provocative story questioning conventional wisdom on exotic species and their impact on nature.

ByKeith Kloor
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Carl Zimmer has a provocative story in Yale 360 that questions some conventional wisdom on exotic species. Alan Burdick's terrific 2005 book tread similar ground. As I see it, anything that enlarges our understanding of nature and our role in shaping it (as urban ecology has done in recent years), is a good thing.

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