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Stefano Mammola1,2,3, Martino Adamo3,4, Dragan Antić5
1Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), National Research Council, Verbania, Italy.
eLife
|October 17, 2023
概括
人类对生物多样性的兴趣,通过出版物和维基百科的观点来衡量,受到社会文化因素的严重影响,例如有用性和常见名称. 这种关注有利于某些物种,在研究和保护工作中可能忽视其他物种.
科学领域:
- 生物多样性研究的研究.
- 保护科学 保护科学
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
- 网络测量技术 (Webometrics) 是一个应用程序.
背景情况:
- 地球物种之间的知识分布不均,影响了保护资金和政策.
- 生物多样性意识的差异可能会扭曲科学和社会优先事项.
- 了解驱动物种关注的因素对于公平的研究和保护至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究科学和社会对生物多样性和物种特征的兴趣之间的关系.
- 确定影响不同物种关注的关键形态,生态和社会文化因素.
- 评估生物多样性研究和保护议程中的潜在偏见.
主要方法:
- 对29个类/分支的3019个随机选择的物种的出版数据和维基百科页面浏览量进行分析.
- 科学和社会利益指标与物种级特征的统计相关性.
- 评估形态 (例如,体型,色彩),生态 (例如,分布) 和社会文化 (例如,有用性,常见名称,IUCN红色名单状态) 的因素.
主要成果:
- 社会文化因素,如物种有用,有害,具有常见名称,或被IUCN列出,是科学和社会利益的最强有力的预测因素.
- 更大的体型,更广泛的分布和分类学上的独特性与注意力增加有关.
- 种类的色彩和与人类的基因亲密性主要影响社会关注.
结论:
- 科学和社会对生物多样性的兴趣明显偏向某些物种,主要是由以人为中心的因素驱动的.
- 这种偏见可能导致许多物种在研究和保护计划中的代表性不足.
- 解决"文化雷达"效应对于更全面地了解和保护全球生物多样性至关重要.
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