@article{d4c3e76d9d854b92a96cf7ba92c53e1d,
title = "COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife",
abstract = "We noticed that people started referring to the lockdown period as the {\textquoteleft}Great Pause{\textquoteright}, but felt that a more precise term would be helpful. We propose {\textquoteleft}anthropause{\textquoteright} to refer specifcally to a considerable global slowing of modern human activities, notably travel. We are aware that the correct prefx is {\textquoteleft}anthropo-{\textquoteright} (for {\textquoteleft}human{\textquoteright}) but opted for the shortened form, which is easier to remember and use, and where the missing {\textquoteleft}po{\textquoteright} is still echoed in the pronunciation of {\textquoteleft}pause{\textquoteright} (pɔːz).",
author = "Christian Rutz and Matthias-Claudio Loretto and Bates, {Amanda E.} and Davidson, {Sarah C.} and Duarte, {Carlos M.} and Walter Jetz and Mark Johnson and Akiko Kato and Roland Kays and Thomas Mueller and Primack, {Richard B.} and Yan Ropert-Coudert and Tucker, {Marlee A.} and Martin Wikelski and Francesca Cagnacci",
note = "KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01 Acknowledgements: Manuscript preparation was supported through: a Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (to C.R.); the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie grant agreement no. 798091 (to M.-C.L.); and Autonomous Province of Trento ordinary funds to Fondazione Edmund Mach (to F.C.).",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z",
language = "English (US)",
journal = "Nature Ecology & Evolution",
issn = "2397-334X",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}