> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries ### Chapter 1 - The Changing Face of Britain ### Chapter 2 - Ripples of Change ### Chapter 3 - Nature's Patterns ### Chapter 4 - Rewilding Conservation Charles Eton kicked off the native vs non-native debate in 1958, when he wrote a book called *The Ecology of Invasion by Animals and Plants*. > I suggest that instead of looking at ecosystems as fixed ‘things’ that were forged at a certain point in our history and are constructed of certain building blocks, we look at them instead as processes. The important aspects of ecosystems are *diversity* and *connectivity*, so if a species is enhancing either or both of these traits, then we could refer to it as ‘nativing’; they are in the process of fitting themselves into food webs. If, on the other hand, species are reducing diversity or complexity (or are simply losing connectivity within their food webs), we could refer to them as ‘exoticing’; they are destabilizing or leaving ecosystems. As the world gets warmer, species adapted to a cooler climate might have to move north. > It is high time that we abandon our idea of creating a fixed and perfect Eden and dreamed instead of a dynamic and flexible future. And no species needs to engage in the process of nativing, rebuilding relationship and connection with the ecosystems around it more than people. ### Chapter 5 - Regenerating Agriculture ### Chapter 6 - Integration ### Chapter 7 - Emergence # Quotes