Conservation cobenefits from air pollution regulation: Evidence from birds.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 117(49): 30900-30906, 2020 12 08.
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ABSTRACT
Massive wildlife losses over the past 50 y have brought new urgency to identifying both the drivers of population decline and potential solutions. We provide large-scale evidence that air pollution, specifically ozone, is associated with declines in bird abundance in the United States. We show that an air pollution regulation limiting ozone precursors emissions has delivered substantial benefits to bird conservation. Our estimates imply that air quality improvements over the past 4 decades have stemmed the decline in bird populations, averting the loss of 1.5 billion birds, â¼20% of current totals. Our results highlight that in addition to protecting human health, air pollution regulations have previously unrecognized and unquantified conservation cobenefits.
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Aves
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Conservação dos Recursos Naturais
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Poluição do Ar
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2020
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