Anthromes

Check it out:

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Anthropogenic_biomes

It is about time.

I teach "Ecology of North America," and I have been itching (read "too lazy") to add urban landscapes to the course. Sure, we talk about natural wild fires hurting rich people in So. California, and fights over prairie dogs, and depleted aquifers, but we haven't gone the next step -- we haven't crossed that threshold into a new paradigm. Now we will.

Thanks Erle and Navin!