Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Impacts of past abrupt land change on local biodiversity globally

  • Martin Jung,
  • Pedram Rowhani,
  • Jörn P. W. Scharlemann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13452-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Abrupt land changes may have long-lasting effects on local biodiversity. Here, Jung et al. show that past abrupt land change reduces species richness and abundance, and alters assemblage composition, with recovery often taking more than 10 years.