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[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 5 points 7 months ago

Were they introduced to the west by humans? If this migration is occurring without human intervention this is just evolution doing its thing.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

It's going to be hard to remove human influence on this equation considering almost everywhere the human influence is present.

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 1 points 7 months ago

Agreed, I think a lot of conservationism can even go too far in removing or preventing natural adaptation to the human presence. I was mostly referring to cases where humans can transport species between local ecosystems in a way that wouldn't occur otherwise, which can result in an environmental imbalance that doesn't always fix itself since such changes in range don't usually occur naturally on a scale as large as with, say, the introduction of the brown marmorated stinkbug into North America from Asia.

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