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from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic \u2018Anthropause\u2019?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity \u2014 and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Emily Anthes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lone duck savoring its hegemony over the Place de la Concorde in Paris, during coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020. Credit…Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a typical spring, breeding seabirds \u2014 and human seabird-watchers \u2014 flock to Stora Karls\u00f6, an island off the coast of Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic canceled the tourist season, reducing human presence on the island by more than 90 percent. With people out of the picture, white-tailed eagles moved in, becoming much more abundant than usual, researchers found<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That might seem like a tidy parable about how nature recovers when people disappear from the landscape \u2014 if not for the fact that ecosystems are complex. The newly numerous eagles repeatedly soared past the cliffs where a protected population of common murres laid its eggs, flushing the smaller birds from their ledges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the commotion, some eggs tumbled from the cliffs; others were snatched by predators while the murres were away. The murres\u2019 breeding performance dropped 26 percent, Jonas Hentati-Sundberg, a marine ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, found. \u201cThey were flying out in panic, and they lost their eggs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic was, and remains, a global human tragedy. But for ecologists, it has also been\u00a0an unparalleled opportunity<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about how people affect the natural world by documenting what happened when we abruptly stepped back from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The New York Times Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic \u2018Anthropause\u2019? Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity \u2014 and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species. By\u00a0Emily Anthes In a typical spring, breeding seabirds \u2014 and human seabird-watchers \u2014 flock to Stora Karls\u00f6, an island […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}