Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation

Richard T Corlett¹, Richard B Primack², Vincent Devictor³, Bea Maas^{4

5}, Varun R Goswami⁶, Amanda E Bates⁷, Lian Pin Koh⁸, Tracey J Regan⁹, Rafael Loyola^{10

11}, Robin J Pakeman¹², Graeme S Cumming¹³, Anna Pidgeon¹⁴, David Johns¹⁵, Robin Roth¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan 666303, China.
² Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
³ ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
⁴ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Division of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
⁵ University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Conservation Initiatives, Guwahati 781022, Assam, India.
⁷ Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's A1C 5S7, Canada.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁹ Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning, 123 Brown Street, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia.
¹⁰ Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹¹ Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
¹² The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK.
¹³ ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia.
¹⁴ Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
¹⁵ School of Government, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Canada.

PMID: 32292203
PMCID: PMC7139249
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108571

Editorial

Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation

Richard T Corlett et al. Biol Conserv. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun:246:108571.

doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108571. Epub 2020 Apr 8.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Yunnan 666303, China.
² Biology Department, Boston University, 5 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
³ ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
⁴ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Division of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
⁵ University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Conservation Initiatives, Guwahati 781022, Assam, India.
⁷ Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's A1C 5S7, Canada.
⁸ Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁹ Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Environment, Land Water and Planning, 123 Brown Street, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia.
¹⁰ Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹¹ Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.
¹² The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK.
¹³ ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia.
¹⁴ Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
¹⁵ School of Government, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Canada.