Ecosystems are changing in a way that cannot be reversed, transforming into human-made "freakosystems." In these environments, native and non-native species live together. Such systems provide conservation challenges, but they may also be what most landscapes look like in the future.

What are freakosystems?

"Freakosystems," also called novel ecosystems , are "autonomous, wild ecosystems that deviate from natural baselines because of human activities," said Jens-Christian Svenning, an ecologist and professor at Denmark's Aarhus University, to the BBC . They may "contain combinations of species never before seen in history: with some native species living alongside other species introduced by humans beyond their historically recorded ranges or driven into new locations by climate

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