The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands

Published:2021-04-30 Issue:6541 Volume:372 Page:488-491
ISSN:0036-8075
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language:en
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Author:

Nogué Sandra¹^ORCID,Santos Ana M. C.²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Birks H. John B.⁶⁷^ORCID,Björck Svante⁸^ORCID,Castilla-Beltrán Alvaro¹^ORCID,Connor Simon⁹¹⁰^ORCID,de Boer Erik J.¹¹^ORCID,de Nascimento Lea¹²¹³^ORCID,Felde Vivian A.⁶^ORCID,Fernández-Palacios José María¹²^ORCID,Froyd Cynthia A.¹⁴^ORCID,Haberle Simon G.⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Hooghiemstra Henry¹⁵,Ljung Karl⁸^ORCID,Norder Sietze J.¹⁶^ORCID,Peñuelas Josep¹⁷¹⁸^ORCID,Prebble Matthew⁹¹⁹^ORCID,Stevenson Janelle⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Whittaker Robert J.²⁰²¹^ORCID,Willis Kathy J.²²,Wilmshurst Janet M.¹³²³^ORCID,Steinbauer Manuel J.²⁴²⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.

2. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal/Azores Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores, 9700-042 Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal.

3. Global Change Ecology and Evolution Group (GloCEE), Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.

4. Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM), Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

5. Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

6. Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway.

7. Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

8. Department of Geology, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.

9. School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia.

10. Australian Research Center (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia.

11. Departament d’Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociències Marines, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

12. Island Ecology and Biogeography Group, Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias (IUETSPC), Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), 38200 La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain.

13. Long-term Ecology Laboratory, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, 7640 Lincoln, New Zealand.

14. Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.

15. Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, 1098XH Amsterdam, Netherlands.

16. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.

17. CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

18. CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

19. School of Earth and Environment, College of Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand.

20. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.

21. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.

22. Oxford Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.

23. School of Environment, University of Auckland, 1142 Auckland, New Zealand.

24. Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) and Department of Sport Science, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany.

25. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway.

Abstract

Accelerating ecosystem disruption Oceanic islands are among the most recent areas on Earth to have been colonized by humans, in many cases in just the past few thousand years. Therefore, they are important laboratories for the study of human impacts on natural vegetation and biodiversity. Nogué et al. provide a quantitative palaeoecological study of 27 islands around the world, focusing on pollen records of vegetation composition before and after human arrival. The authors found a consistent pattern of acceleration of vegetation turnover after human invasion, with median rates of change increasing by a factor of six. These changes occurred regardless of geographical and ecological features of the island and show how rapidly ecosystems can change and how island ecosystems are set on new trajectories. Science , this issue p. 488

Funder

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

H2020 European Research Council

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Research Unit

Worldwide Universities Network

European Research Council

Juan de la Cierva Fellowship

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

"Juan de la Cierva” Fellowship funded by the Spanish ‘Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Swedish Research Council Formas

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant