Call for papers: Research Topic Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Marine Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Coastalscapes

In a blink of the eye in geologic time, humanity has changed the structure and function of the Earth system. Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are undergoing a major resetting and are progressively encroached by human-dominated systems. Understanding how life is finding its way to thrive in coastal systems ruled by humans will help clarify the outcomes of our relationship with nature. Traditionally, ecologists have seen humans either as a disturbance to be accounted for or one that is simply ignored, despite long-term and large-scale human effects on ecosystems. This approach is now untenable; there is enough scientific evidence showing that ecosystems we study are in transition to new states and regimes, and ecosystems globally are dominated by a single “hyper-keystone species” – humans. We are now the most important factor influencing the structure and function of ecosystems and the main force of evolutionary change. Among the wide array of human-dominated landscapes,…