Anthropocene: keep the guard up


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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Chris Thomas writes that recent gains in species numbers associated with climate warming could more than balance species losses (_Nature_


502, 7; 2013). But conservation is not just about total species richness — it is also about functioning ecosystems. Unlike ecosystems that have resulted from millennia of competition and


predation, we are much less sure about the stability of new, unfamiliar ones created by invasive species, which we know can wreak havoc. This is a preview of subscription content, access via


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ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Caro, T. Anthropocene: keep the guard up. _Nature_ 502, 624 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502624a Download citation * Published: 30 October 2013 *


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