COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

Christian Rutz^{1

2}, Matthias-Claudio Loretto^{3

4}, Amanda E Bates⁵, Sarah C Davidson^{3

6}, Carlos M Duarte⁷, Walter Jetz^{8

9}, Mark Johnson^{10

11}, Akiko Kato¹², Roland Kays^{13

14}, Thomas Mueller^{15

16}, Richard B Primack¹⁷, Yan Ropert-Coudert¹², Marlee A Tucker¹⁸, Martin Wikelski^{3

6}, Francesca Cagnacci¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. christian.rutz@st-andrews.ac.uk.
² Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. christian.rutz@st-andrews.ac.uk.
³ Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁵ Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
⁶ Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁷ Red Sea Research Center and Computational Biosciences Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁹ Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
¹⁰ Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
¹¹ Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹² Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, La Rochelle Université - CNRS, UMR 7372, Villiers en Bois, France.
¹³ North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Biodiversity Lab, Raleigh, NC, USA.
¹⁴ Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
¹⁵ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
¹⁷ Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹⁹ Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy.

PMID: 32572222
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z

COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

Christian Rutz et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;4(9):1156-1159.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z.

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¹ Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. christian.rutz@st-andrews.ac.uk.
² Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. christian.rutz@st-andrews.ac.uk.
³ Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁵ Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
⁶ Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁷ Red Sea Research Center and Computational Biosciences Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁹ Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
¹⁰ Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
¹¹ Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹² Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, La Rochelle Université - CNRS, UMR 7372, Villiers en Bois, France.
¹³ North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Biodiversity Lab, Raleigh, NC, USA.
¹⁴ Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
¹⁵ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
¹⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
¹⁷ Biology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
¹⁹ Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy.

PMID: 32572222
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z

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