The disconnect humans have had to the ecology is a lot more than just not having plants in your front yard. The fact we don't recognize something like a suburb as near the same structurally to any other large habitat with complex systems of relationships built within them is in large part why I've found some contention with ecological restoration in its contemporary form. Even down to common catagorization and the way we treat human involvement.
I'm gonna specifically refer here to the concept of "native ecosystems". A lot of restoration focuses around keeping these ecosystems locked in a sort of time capsule of what they were initially, usually initially meaning pre-columbian (for lack of better words). Keeping ecosystems in these kinda isolates makes naturalization of new or evolving species incredibly difficult, which further enables these non "protected" areas to just get worse with species that take an overbearing role on a biome
I'm gonna take a classic example of something like Tree of Heaven here in Maryland. Tree of Heaven is an "invasive" tree from East Asia that tends to dominate ecosystems immensely.
Now the average ecologist looks at this new arrival and will immediately try to get rid of it. However the only reason why it's even performing in this problematic way is because the human habitat in the form that it manifests in enables that tree to perform that way
Without explaining the entire complex ecosystem of the Mid Atlantic Costal Plain; basically deer over eat native flora and insects because they have no predators, which eliminates competition for ToH as well as the lack of growing conditions required as a result of alterted soil and environmental conditions.
All a result of the contemporary human habitat structure which is a result of our social relationships *cough cough* class society *cough*
@AlesanderEtx how predators have been demonized is probably one of the most evil things man has ever done and that demonization was a template for how he creates demons out of his fellow man
@ZiaNitori @AlesanderEtx There's a cool bit about how the reappearance of wolves in Yellowstone has altered the shape of rivers there for the better because their presence changed how deer or elk behaved.
Ultimately other predators don't commit atrocities that humans do, but many project those horrors onto other predators anyways.
Also also there was a recent study which indicates that urban & sub-urban species will change because of the climate, "where thousands of species will disappear across the selected cities, being replaced by new species, or not replaced at all".
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299217
@ZiaNitori omfg yes, this is something that really gets my blood boiling especially within the context of I guess the "ethical veganism" debate. But definitely taking any aspect of the cycles of ecology like that just creates justification for extermination of those aspects like we saw in the East Coast of NA and many of it's Indigenous predatory species . Quite literally contributing heavily to a lot of the problems we see now. Not to mention the placement of humans as above them is just evil