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The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity

By Christopher Lyon, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
Jonathan D. Gordon, Postdoctoral Researcher, Palaeoecology, University of York

New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

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