COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.
Christian Rutz,Christian Rutz,Matthias-Claudio Loretto,Matthias-Claudio Loretto,Amanda E. Bates,Sarah C. Davidson,Sarah C. Davidson,Carlos M. Duarte,Walter Jetz,Mark Johnson,Mark Johnson,Akiko Kato,Roland Kays,Roland Kays,Thomas Mueller,Richard B. Primack,Yan Ropert-Coudert,Marlee A. Tucker,Martin Wikelski,Martin Wikelski,Francesca Cagnacci +20 more
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Reduced human mobility during the pandemic will reveal critical aspects of the authors' impact on animals, providing important guidance on how best to share space on this crowded planet.Abstract:
Reduced human mobility during the pandemic will reveal critical aspects of our impact on animals, providing important guidance on how best to share space on this crowded planetread more
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The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean.
Carlos M. Duarte,Carlos M. Duarte,Lucille Chapuis,Shaun P. Collin,Daniel P. Costa,Reny P. Devassy,Víctor M. Eguíluz,Christine Erbe,Timothy A. C. Gordon,Timothy A. C. Gordon,Benjamin S. Halpern,Harry R. Harding,Michelle-Nicole Havlik,Mark G. Meekan,Nathan D. Merchant,Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds,Miles Parsons,Miles Parsons,Milica Predragovic,Andrew N. Radford,Craig A. Radford,Stephen D. Simpson,Hans Slabbekoorn,Erica Staaterman,Ilse van Opzeeland,Jana Winderen,Xiangliang Zhang,Francis Juanes +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that ocean sound affects marine animals at multiple levels, including their behavior, physiology, and, in extreme cases, survival, which should prompt management actions to deploy existing solutions to reduce noise levels in the ocean, thereby allowing marine animals to reestablish their use of ocean sound as a central ecological trait.
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COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a “Global Human Confinement Experiment” to investigate biodiversity conservation
TL;DR: It is argued that the collective power of combining diverse data will transcend the limited value of the individual data sets and produce unexpected insights and create future networks, observatories and policies that are more adept in protecting biological diversity across the world.
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The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System
Noah S. Diffenbaugh,Christopher B. Field,Eric A. Appel,Inês Azevedo,Dennis D. Baldocchi,Marshall Burke,Jennifer Burney,Philippe Ciais,Steven J. Davis,Arlene M. Fiore,Arlene M. Fiore,Sarah Fletcher,Thomas W. Hertel,Daniel E. Horton,Solomon Hsiang,Robert B. Jackson,Xiaomeng Jin,Margaret Levi,Margaret Levi,David B. Lobell,Galen A. McKinley,Galen A. McKinley,Frances C. Moore,Anastasia Montgomery,Kari C. Nadeau,Diane E. Pataki,James T. Randerson,Markus Reichstein,Jordan L. Schnell,Jordan L. Schnell,Sonia I. Seneviratne,Deepti Singh,Allison L. Steiner,Gabrielle Wong-Parodi +33 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors hypothesize the immediate and long-term Earth System responses to COVID-19 along two multidisciplinary cascades: energy, emissions, climate and air quality; and poverty, globalization, food and biodiversity.
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The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country
Raoul Manenti,Emiliano Mori,Viola Di Canio,S. Mercurio,Marco Picone,Mario Caffi,Mattia Brambilla,Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Diego Rubolini +9 more
TL;DR: Both social media information and field data suggest that a reduction of human disturbance allowed wildlife to exploit new habitats and increase daily activity, and the lower human disturbance linked to lockdown was in fact beneficial for invasive alien species.
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Singing in a silent spring: Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID-19 shutdown
Elizabeth P. Derryberry,Jennifer N. Phillips,Jennifer N. Phillips,Graham E. Derryberry,Michael J. Blum,David Luther +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that noise levels in urban areas were substantially lower during the pandemic shutdown, characteristic of traffic in the mid-1950s, and that birds responded by producing higher performance songs at lower amplitudes, effectively maximizing communication distance and salience.
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TL;DR: Using a unique GPS-tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, it is found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one-half to one-third the extent of their movements in area with a low human footprint.
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Ecology. Whose conservation
TL;DR: Changes in the perception and goals of nature conservation require a solid scientific basis to be sustained, and these shifts mainly relate to how the relationships between people and nature are viewed, with consequences for the science underpinning conservation.
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The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality
TL;DR: A global study of anthropogenic effects on mammal diel activity patterns, conducting a meta-analysis of 76 studies of 62 species from six continents revealed a strong effect of humans on daily patterns of wildlife activity.
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Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle.
Nuria Oliver,Bruno Lepri,Harald Sterly,Renaud Lambiotte,Renaud Lambiotte,Sébastien Deletaille,Marco De Nadai,Emmanuel Letouzé,Albert Ali Salah,Richard Benjamins,Ciro Cattuto,Ciro Cattuto,Vittoria Colizza,Nicolas de Cordes,Samuel P. Fraiberger,Till Koebe,Sune Lehmann,Juan Murillo,Alex Pentland,Phuong Pham,Frédéric Pivetta,Jari Saramäki,Samuel V. Scarpino,Michele Tizzoni,Stefaan Verhulst,Patrick Vinck +25 more
TL;DR: It is argued that mobile phone data, when used properly and carefully, represents a critical arsenal of tools for supporting public health actions across early-, middle-, and late-stage phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation.
Richard T. Corlett,Richard B. Primack,Vincent Devictor,Bea Maas,Varun R. Goswami,Amanda E. Bates,Lian Pin Koh,Tracey J. Regan,Rafael Loyola,Robin J. Pakeman,Graeme S. Cumming,Anna M. Pidgeon,David Johns,Robin Roth +13 more
TL;DR: This editorial can only be a snapshot of a quickly evolving situation, but it hopes that it can offer some encouragement and insights for colleagues in lockdown and how the conservation community must be ready to respond.