Island biodiversity: Stable but vulnerable

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The biodiversity on islands is the result of an equilibrium between the immigration of new species and the extinction of established ones. This idea was proposed exactly 50 years ago by the founders of Island Biogeography Theory, Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson. But it had never been proven – until now that is. Ecologists from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Germany), Stony Brook University (USA) and the University of Groningen have discovered that the bat species on the Greater Antilles islands were in a state of equilibrium before humans arrived some 4000 years ago. Then extinctions became prevalent. The researchers calculated that it will take nature eight million years to restore the original diversity. The results were published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on 9 January.

Periode9-jan.-2017 → 31-mrt.-2017

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  • TitelThis is how long it would take for nature to restore species to pre-human levels
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletWorld Economic Forum
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioUnited States
    Release datum31/03/2017
    BeschrijvingMore than half of mammal species went extinct after human colonization in the Caribbean alone. Can nature restore the numbers of species on islands to levels that existed before human arrival—and, if so—how long would it take for nature to regain this lost mammal diversity?
    Producent / auteurGregory Filiano
    URLhttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/this-is-how-long-it-would-take-for-nature-to-restore-species-numbers-to-pre-human-arrival
    PersonenRampal Etienne
  • TitelRecovering lost Caribbean bats would take 8M years
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletFuturity
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioUnited States
    Release datum28/03/2017
    BeschrijvingMore than half of mammal species went extinct after human colonization in the Caribbean alone. Can nature restore the numbers of species on islands to levels that existed before human arrival—and, if so—how long would it take for nature to regain this lost mammal diversity?
    Producent / auteurGregory Filiano
    URLhttps://www.futurity.org/caribbean-bats-extinctions-1388232-2/
    PersonenRampal Etienne
  • TitelDie Natur nach dem Verschwinden des Menschen
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletHeise online - Telepolis
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioGermany
    Release datum06/02/2017
    BeschrijvingTiere, die von einem Massenaussterben bedroht sind, bräuchten 8 Millionen Jahre, um sich von Menschheit zu erholen
    Producent / auteurPatrick Spät
    URLhttps://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-Natur-nach-dem-Verschwinden-des-Menschen-3607947.html
    PersonenRampal Etienne
  • TitelIsland biodiversity: Stable but vulnerable
    Mate van erkenningNational
    Media naam/outletScience Linx
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioNetherlands
    Release datum11/01/2017
    BeschrijvingThe biodiversity on islands is the result of an equilibrium between the immigration of new species and the extinction of established ones. This idea was proposed exactly 50 years ago by the founders of Island Biogeography Theory, Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson. But it had never been proven – until now that is. Ecologists from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Germany), Stony Brook University (USA) and the University of Groningen have discovered that the bat species on the Greater Antilles islands were in a state of equilibrium before humans arrived some 4000 years ago. Then extinctions became prevalent. The researchers calculated that it will take nature eight million years to restore the original diversity. The results were published in Nature Ecology & Evolution on 9 January.
    Producent / auteurRene Fransen
    URLwww.rug.nl/sciencelinx/nieuws/2017/01/20170111_islands?lang=en
    PersonenRampal Etienne
  • TitelCaribbean bat species need 8 million years to recover from recent extinction waves
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletTechnology Org
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioUnited States
    Release datum11/01/2017
    BeschrijvingHow long does it take a population of mammals to recover after a wave of species loss? Bats in the Caribbean Islands may hold new answers, biologists report in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
    Producent / auteurNSF
    URLhttps://www.technology.org/2017/01/11/caribbean-bat-species-need-8-million-years-recover-recent-extinction-waves/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TechnologyOrg+%28Technology+Org+-+All+News%29
    PersonenRampal Etienne
  • TitelLong-Term Diversity Equilibrium on Islands in a Rapidly Changing World
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletNature Ecology and Evolution - Behind the paper
    MediatypePrint
    Land/RegioUnited States
    Release datum09/01/2017
    BeschrijvingFifty years ago MacArthur and Wilson predicted species diversity on islands would approach a dynamic equilibrium balancing colonization, and some speciation, against extinction. The long-term species diversity of Greater Antillean New World leaf-nosed bats and close relatives shows such an equilibrium, as well as how Holocene extinctions have dragged diversity far from it.
    Producent / auteurLiliana Davalos Alvarez
    URLhttps://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/25147-liliana-davalos-alvarez/posts/14209-long-term-stability-on-islands-in-a-rapidly-changing-world
    PersonenRampal Etienne
  • TitelCaribbean bat species need 8 million years to recover from recent extinction waves
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletNational Science Foundation
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioUnited States
    Release datum09/01/2017
    BeschrijvingHow long does it take a community of mammals to recover after a wave of species loss? Bats in the Caribbean Islands may hold new answers, biologists report in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
    Producent / auteurCheryl Dybas, Greg Filiano
    URLhttps://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190744
    PersonenRampal Etienne

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