A balance of winners and losers
A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene
A new paper led by Maria was recently published in Ecology Letters
Using a subset of the BioTIME database the authors found that in a set of 23,241 populations, they detected significantly accelerating extinction and colonisation rates, with both rates being approximately balanced. Most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%). Thus, population metrics estimated with assemblage data are commensurate with assemblage metrics and reveal sustained and increasing species turnover.
