The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands

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(University of Southampton. School of Geography and Environmental Science)
Santos, Ana M. C.

(Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdadede Ciências)
Birks, H. John B.

(University of Bergen. Department of Biological Sciences)
Björck, Svante

(Lund University. Department of Geology)
Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro

(University of Southampton. School of Geography and Environmental Science)
Connor, Simon

(Australian National University)
de Boer, Erik J.

(Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología)
de Nascimento, Lea

(Universidad de La Laguna. Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias)
Felde, Vivian Astrup

(University of Bergen. Department of Biological Sciences)
Fernández-Palacios, José María

(Universidad de La Laguna. Instituto Universitario de Enfermedades Tropicales y Salud Pública de Canarias)
Froyd, Cynthia

(SwanseaUniversity. Department of Biosciences)
Haberle, Simon G.

(Australian National University)
Hooghiemstra, Henry (University of Amsterdam. Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics)
Ljung, Karl

(Lund University. Department of Geology)
Norder, Sietze

(Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
Peñuelas, Josep

(Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Prebble, Matiu

(Australian National University)
Stevenson, Janelle

(Australian National University)
Whittaker, Robert

(University of Oxford. School of Geography and the Environment)
Willis, Kathy J.
Wilmshurst, Janet M.

(University of Oxford. Department of Zoology)
Steinbauer, Manuel J.

(Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research)

Data:	2021
Resum:	Islands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities, and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological functions. By analyzing 27 representative fossil pollen sequences encompassing the past 5000 years from islands globally, we quantified the rates of vegetation compositional change before and after human arrival. After human arrival, rates of turnover accelerate by a median factor of 11, with faster rates on islands colonized in the past 1500 years than for those colonized earlier. This global anthropogenic acceleration in turnover suggests that islands are on trajectories of continuing change. Strategies for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration must acknowledge the long duration of human impacts and the degree to which ecological changes today differ from prehuman dynamics.
Ajuts:	European Commission 818854 European Commission 741413 European Commission 700952 European Commission 610028 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad IJCI-2014-19502
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Publicat a:	Science, Vol. 372, issue 6541 (April 2021) , p. 488-491, ISSN 1095-9203

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