Manuel J Steinbauer, John-Arvid Grytnes, Gerald Jurasinski, Aino Kulonen, Jonathan Lenoir, Harald Pauli, Christian Rixen, Manuela Winkler, Manfred Bardy-Durchhalter, Elena Barni, Anne D Bjorkman, Frank T Breiner, Sarah Burg, Patryk Czortek, Melissa A Dawes, Anna Delimat, Stefan Dullinger, Brigitta Erschbamer, Vivian A Felde, Olatz Fernández-Arberas, Kjetil F Fossheim, Daniel Gómez-García, Damien Georges, Erlend T Grindrud, Sylvia Haider, Siri V Haugum, Hanne Henriksen, María J Herreros, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Francesca Jaroszynska, Robert Kanka, Jutta Kapfer, Kari Klanderud, Ingolf Kühn, Andrea Lamprecht, Magali Matteodo, Umberto Morra di Cella, Signe Normand, Arvid Odland, Siri L Olsen, Sara Palacio, Martina Petey, Veronika Piscová, Blazena Sedlakova, Klaus Steinbauer, Veronika Stöckli, Jens-Christian Svenning, Guido Teppa, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Pascal Vittoz, Sarah J Woodin, Niklaus E Zimmermann, Sonja Wipf
Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-twentieth century 1-7 are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the onset of the Anthropocene epoch 6 . While reports on ecological responses (for example, changes in species range or local extinctions) to the Great Acceleration are multiplying 8, 9 , it is unknown whether such biotic responses are undergoing a similar acceleration over time. This knowledge gap stems from the limited availability of time series data on biodiversity changes across large temporal and geographical extents...
April 2018: Nature