The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation-新荒野：入侵物种何以拯救自然

作者：Fred Pearce

书名：The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation《新荒野：入侵物种何以拯救自然》

中文简介：The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation《新荒野：入侵物种何以拯救自然》本书对新物种被引入不同环境后带来的后果进行了细致分析。本书驳斥了科学和统计样本选择行为中的谬误，后者认为要抵制入侵物种，保护想象中的完美过去。

英文简介：For a long time, veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce thought in stark terms about invasive species: they were the evil interlopers spoiling pristine “natural” ecosystems. Most conservationists and environmentalists share this view. But what if the traditional view of ecology is wrong—what if true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders? 

In The New Wild, Pearce goes on a journey across six continents to rediscover what conservation in the twenty-first century should be about. Pearce explores ecosystems from remote Pacific islands to the United Kingdom, from San Francisco Bay to the Great Lakes, as he digs into questionable estimates of the cost of invader species and reveals the outdated intellectual sources of our ideas about the balance of nature. Pearce acknowledges that there are horror stories about alien species disrupting ecosystems, but most of the time, the tens of thousands of introduced species usually swiftly die out or settle down and become model eco-citizens. The case for keeping out alien species, he finds, looks increasingly flawed. 

As Pearce argues, mainstream environmentalists are right that we need a rewilding of the earth, but they are wrong if they imagine that we can achieve that by reengineering ecosystems. Humans have changed the planet too much, and nature never goes backward. But a growing group of scientists is taking a fresh look at how species interact in the wild. According to these new ecologists, we should applaud the dynamism of alien species and the novel ecosystems they create.