The road to confusion is paved with novel ecosystem labels: a reply to Hobbs et al

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¹ Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175, CEFE - Campus CNRS), 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier 34293, France; Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: james.aronson@cefe.cnrs.fr.
² University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Organization for Tropical Studies, Duke University, 410 Swift Avenue, Box 90630, Durham, NC 27705, USA.
³ Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Seccional Cali, Cali, Colombia.
⁴ Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), 48008 Bilbao, Spain; IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
⁵ Kings Park and Botanic Garden, West Perth 6005, Australia.
⁶ University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.

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James Aronson et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2014 Dec.

. 2014 Dec;29(12):646-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.011. Epub 2014 Oct 16.

¹ Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR 5175, CEFE - Campus CNRS), 1919 Route de Mende, Montpellier 34293, France; Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: james.aronson@cefe.cnrs.fr.
² University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; Organization for Tropical Studies, Duke University, 410 Swift Avenue, Box 90630, Durham, NC 27705, USA.
³ Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Seccional Cali, Cali, Colombia.
⁴ Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), 48008 Bilbao, Spain; IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
⁵ Kings Park and Botanic Garden, West Perth 6005, Australia.
⁶ University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.

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A critique of the 'novel ecosystem' concept.
Murcia C, Aronson J, Kattan GH, Moreno-Mateos D, Dixon K, Simberloff D. Murcia C, et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2014 Oct;29(10):548-53. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.07.006. Epub 2014 Aug 1. Trends Ecol Evol. 2014. PMID: 25088744
Novel ecosystems: concept or inconvenient reality? A response to Murcia et al.
Hobbs RJ, Higgs ES, Harris JA. Hobbs RJ, et al. Trends Ecol Evol. 2014 Dec;29(12):645-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.006. Epub 2014 Oct 13. Trends Ecol Evol. 2014. PMID: 25439734 No abstract available.