Galápagos as a living laboratory for the Anthropocene

Galápagos as a living laboratory for the Anthropocene

Galápagos. Image by averno_ph, Needpix.

Galápagos. Image by averno_ph, Needpix.

An international team of researchers led by experts at the Charles Darwin Foundation and with the collaboration of the Sea Around Us principal investigator, Daniel Pauly, and William Cheung, from the Changing Ocean Research Unit at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, just published a commentary in Nature Climate Change proposing the idea of Galápagos as a living laboratory for the Anthropocene.

In the scientists’ view, the islands that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution represent an important natural laboratory to understand ecosystem resilience in the face of climate extremes and the effects of socio-ecological co-evolution under climate change.

Below there is a graphic summary of the commentary:

Galápagos as a living laboratory for the Anthropocene