Housing as Ecology

Houses, building, novel ecosystems as habitats or ecological niches. Coexistence in such places. Evolution and co-evolution of species in such places. Examples of management and adaptation. Scope for innovation.

Multiple temporal scales at which houses exist. Abandoned housing. How quickly they can deteriorate and become uninhabitable.

Exposome

References

Dunn, Rob R. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Dunn, Rob R. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species. New York: Basic Books, 2021.