COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

Rutz, Christian | Loretto, Matthias-Claudio | Bates, Amanda | Davidson, Sarah | Duarte, Carlos M. | Jetz, Walter | Johnson, Mark | Kato, Akiko | Kays, Roland | Mueller, Thomas | Primack, Richard, B | Ropert-Coudert, Yan | Tucker, Marlee | Wikelski, Martin | Cagnacci, Francesca | School of Biology [University of St Andrews] ; University of St Andrews [Scotland] | Harvard University | Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | University of Konstanz | Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada] (MUN) | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [Thuwal, Saudi Arabia] (KAUST) | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [New Haven] ; Yale University [New Haven] | Sea Mammal Research Unit [University of St Andrews] (SMRU) ; School of Biology [University of St Andrews] ; University of St Andrews [Scotland]-University of St Andrews [Scotland]-Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | Aarhus University [Aarhus] | Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) ; La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F) ; Goethe University Frankfurt = Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main-Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung ; Leibniz Association-Leibniz Association | Boston University [Boston] (BU) | Radboud University [Nijmegen] | Fondazione Edmund Mach - Edmund Mach Foundation [Italie] (FEM) | Manuscript preparation was supported through: a Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (to C.R.); the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 798091 (to M.-C.L.); and Autonomous Province of Trento ordinary funds to Fondazione Edmund Mach (to F.C.).