Eco-semiotics: A new field of competence for ecology to overcome the frontier between environmental complexity and human culture in the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean region shows unique environmental and ecological characteristics. observed ecological complexity is the result of a long-lasting and intense -evolutionary process between human and non-human organisms. of the valuable landscapes at the present time are under serious threat from intensification, land abandonment and forestation, urban sprawl, and tourism. The urgency of conservation clashes against these threats. complexity of human–nature interactions is best represented by the “full empty” world ecological model. Cultural landscape and niche construction theories to this framework. In turn, perception and cognition are central themes the definition of such paradigms. This leads ecological research into the field of -semiotics, a new scientific perspective that can provide powerful tools for the of the Mediterranean ecological complexity, as it addresses the interpretation signs that human and other evolutionary drivers leave in the environment. Such are the expression of mutual interactions that shaped patterns and processes the region. eco-field paradigm, derived from the eco-semiotic approach, is a theoretical that allows one to intercept a portion of such signals to model the relationship any species and its environment.