Species Turnover Slowdown

As: "The species turnover slowdown"

Buried in the ecology signal, almost unprocessed: species turnover has slowed by approximately one-third since the 1970s. This is not species loss — it is something stranger. The natural machinery of replacement, the process by which ecosystems renew themselves, is stalling. Nature's capacity to regenerate its own composition is declining. The background hum of biological creativity — new species filling niches, old assemblages reshuffling — is quietening. Simultaneously: Arctic sea-ice extent ...