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Humans may turn out to be the most crucial ‘keystone’ species of them all
人類或許纔是最關鍵的「基礎物種」

Consensus about how to define the concept remains elusive among ecologists
如果不清楚什麼物種在控制生態系統的齒輪,「再野化」只能摸黑進行。而我們常常忘記,我們正是全球生態系統中的超級基礎物種。

The writer is a science commentatorIt is fitting that a concept now regarded as somewhat slippery began life in a rock pool. In the 1960s, Bob Paine, an ecologist at the University of Washington, removed a species of purple starfish from a tidal pool on a stretch of the US Pacific coast to see what would happen.

本文作者是科學評論員

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