Has the unprecedented standby of human activity on the planet really benefited wildlife? And what does this parenthesis teach us about the interactions between man and nature? Confined, too, in recent months, scientists have not been able to observe firsthand the effects of confinement on biodiversity. So, they had the idea of sharing the immense mass of information captured during this period by their measuring devices fixed on animals. Their initiative is relayed in a letter published on June 22 by the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution .
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"These exceptional circumstances give us, for the first time, the possibility of measuring on a very large scale the impact of human displacement on nature," says Yan Ropert-Coudert, director of research at the Center for Biological Studies in Chizé, in La Rochelle (CNRS). This specialist in marine predators, whose behavior he studies in the polar zones, participated in 2017
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