克服困惑和耻辱在息地碎片化研究研究的混乱和耻辱
Federico Riva1, Nicola Koper2, Lenore Fahrig3
1Environmental Geography Department, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081, HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
|March 13, 2024
概括
息地碎片化研究面临着混乱和耻辱,导致遗漏的保护机会. 澄清概念和改进研究设计可以提高生物多样性保护政策及其有效性.
科学领域:
- 生态与保护生物学 生态与保护生物学
- 环境科学 环境科学
背景情况:
- 人类造成的息地丧失是一个主要的环境问题,但关于息地碎片化的具体影响的争论仍在继续.
- 现有的关于息地碎片化的文献遭受了广泛的概念混乱和负面情绪,影响了保护工作.
研究的目的:
- 审查有关息地碎片化的文献,确定混乱和耻辱的后果,并提出促进研究的解决方案.
- 解决由于对碎片化研究的误解导致的低于最佳的息地保护政策.
主要方法:
- 对25篇最多引用的碎片化文章 (2017-2021) 的文献综述,以分析概念清晰度和情绪.
- 与其他环境科学子领域相比,对碎片化论文的情绪分析.
- 建议新的研究设计,使用息地数量和碎片化的独立梯度.
主要成果:
- 存在广泛的混,确定了五个不同的息地碎片化的概念,只有一个区分"碎片化本身".
- 碎片化研究显示,与其他环境领域相比,负面情绪论文的负面情绪和引用率更高.
- 经验研究经常显示碎片化本身的中性或积极影响,突显了小息地块的价值.
结论:
- 在息地碎片化研究中的混乱和耻辱阻碍了有效的生物多样性保护和生态系统管理.
- 采用精确的语言和研究设计,以独立的息地数量和碎片化的梯度至关重要.
- 解决这些问题将有助于更好地理解碎片化效应,并导致更有效的基于区域的保护政策.
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