martedì 31 ottobre 2017

PROLOGO - HL Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction Chris D. Thomas

Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
Chris D. Thomas
Last annotated on Tuesday October 31, 2017
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Prologue Gains and losses
Note:PROL@@@@@@@@

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The Vale of York
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brown bears
Note:DOVE PRIMA C ERA L ORSO

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wild cattle
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the most intensively farmed parts of England,
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specks of poppy flowers
Note:LA VITA VARIA IN UN PAESAGGIO APPARENTEMENTE UNIFORME... PAPAVERI

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Coppery pheasants are strutting in search of fallen seeds,
Note:FAGIANI

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dowdy field voles
Note:TOPO CAMPAGNOLO

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greenfly
Note:AFIDE

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Rufous foxes
Note:PREDATORI... VOLPE

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kestrels
Note:GHEPPIO

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harlequin ladybird beetles
Note:SCARABEI

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The apparently denuded vale is full of species,
Note:PARADOSSO

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harlequin ladybirds originated in Asia;
Note:QUASI TUTTI ANIMALI IMPORTATI...COCCINELLA

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small-leaved pigmyweed in Tasmania;
Note:FELCE

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poppies came as contaminants of grain from continental Europe;
Note:PAPAVERI

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the basics of biology remain.
Note:ESITO

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The rules of life continue, save Homo sapiens is now a key player.
Note:LA DIFFERENZA RISPETTO A IERI

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human-modified Earth
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Indian myna birds that are now at home in Florida,
Note:ESEMPI DI TRASFERIMENTI

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agile mice that started life in Asia and then spread throughout the cities,
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Australian wattle trees and previously endangered Californian pines that are growing wild in Africa.
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The trickle of successful species1 taking advantage of human-created opportunities is becoming a torrent.
Note:LE SPECIE SALVATE INVOLONTARIAMENTE

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Anthropocene epoch.
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converted a third of the world’s vegetation to produce our food,
Note:LA GRANDE TRASFO

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diminishing space for wild plants and animals.
Note:SPAZI

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acidified the oceans
Note:ALTRI CAMBIAMENTI

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changed the climate
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hunted most of the largest land animals
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transporting voracious predators and virulent diseases
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the scourge of the Earth,
Note:COSÌ CI SIAMO DIPINTI

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nature is coping surprisingly well in the human era.
Note:SORPRESA... LA NATURA SI ADATTA A NOI

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new species have colonized landscapes that contain a mixture of arable fields, pastures, hedgerows, plantations, orchards, logged forests, ditches and towns faster than the rate at which species that used to live in the original habitats have disappeared
Note:LA SCOPERTA

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diversity has grown in nearly all regions of the world
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Climate change is playing its part too. More species like it hot
Note:IL CLIMA CONTRIBUISCE

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we have carried different species with us,
Note:5 CONTINENTI

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We are acting as a global glue,
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a New Pangea.
Note:IL MONDO È TORNATO A ESSERE UN SUPERCONTINENTE

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many more immigrant species have established new populations
Note:MIGRAZIONI FORZATE

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immigration usually increases the diversity
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The Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, single cells came into existence over 3.5 billion years ago, creatures consisting of complex bodies took off in the last 600 million years, and the diversification of life on land has occupied the last 450 million years. On average, biological gains have tended to have the upper hand, and this increasing variety of life seems likely to continue
Note:PICCOLA STORIA DELLA TERRA.... UNA DIVERSITÀ CHE AUMENTA SENZA SOSTA

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formation of new hybrid plant species in Europe and North America would appear to be faster
Note:IBRIDI CHE BATTONO L ESTINZIONE

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less and less like their ancestors. Eventually, they will become separate species.
Note:L IBRIDO MUTA TOTALMENTE

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massive acceleration in the formation of new species
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several million
Note:LE NUOVE SPECIE

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The default stance of conservation is to keep things as unchanged as possible
Note:LA STRATEGIA DEL PRESERVARE

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undesirable the continuing biological gains of the human epoch.
Note:EFFETTO COLLATERALE DEI CONSERVAZII

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to kill ‘impure’
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idealized state
Note:ECOSISTEMA... L UTOPIA CONSERVAZ

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We need a new rationale
Note:MANIFESTO

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humans are regarded as part of nature,
Note:UN NUOVO PUNTO DI VISTA

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a more optimistic approach.
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appreciative of the biological beneficiaries of the human-altered environment,
Note:COME DOBBIAMO CAMBIARE

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Rather than swim against the tide of ecological and evolutionary change,
Note:BASTA NUOTARE CONTRO CORRENTE

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the old was once new.
Note:MEMENTO

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consider the success stories