anthropopause

plural anthropopauses

1. alternativeAlternative form of anthropause

   A global anthropopause period was imposed through the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

   2020 November 19, Christos S Zerefos, Stavros Solomos, John Kapsomenakis, Anastasia Poupkou, Lida Dimitriadou, Iliana D Polychroni, Pavlos Kalabokas, Constandinos M Philandras, Dimitris Thanos, “Lessons learned and questions raised during and post-COVID-19 anthropopause period in relation to the environment and climate”, in Environ Dev Sustain, →DOI

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   We aimed to check the effect of the anthropopause on the populations of the sea anemones and RSCF by comparing their numbers before and after the pandemic closures.

   2022, Reuven Yosef, Tal Nachshonov, Piotr Zduniak, “Anthropopause positively influenced Red Sea Clownfish (Amphiprion bicinctus) populations but not the host sea anemone (Actiniaria spp.) in Eilat, Israel”, in Marine Policy, volume 145, →DOI

   In conclusion, as we predicted, the anthropopause associated with the COVID-19 lockdown apparently had an effect on the feeding ecology of this urban-dwelling predator.

   2023, Marc Vez-Garzón, Joan Giménez, Antoni Sánchez-Márquez, Tomás Montalvo, Joan Navarro, “Changes in the feeding ecology of an opportunistic predator inhabiting urban environments in response to COVID-19 lockdown”, in R Soc Open Sci, →DOI

   Indeed, many commentators observed that such an ‘anthropo-pause’, however tragic and unintended, impressed on billions of people the urgency of finding alternative paths of ecological globalization.

   2024, Manfred B. Steger, Globalization in the 21st Century, page 174