消除对长期实地工作的制度障碍对于推动生态学的发展至关重要
Kasim Rafiq1, Neil R Jordan2, J Weldon McNutt3
1Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Botswana Predator Conservation, Wild Entrust, Maun, Botswana.
Trends in ecology & evolution
|November 15, 2024
概括
长期的生态现场工作至关重要,但面临学术和资金障碍. 包容性实践和修订评估指标等策略可以促进科学洞察力和公平.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 环境科学 环境科学
背景情况:
- 长期的生态现场工作对于理解复杂的环境系统和为保护策略提供信息至关重要.
- 目前的学术机构障碍,包括出版或灭亡文化和资金限制,严重阻碍了持续的实地研究.
- 这些挑战不成比例地影响研究人员,并限制了关键生态研究的范围和持续时间.
研究的目的:
- 确定和讨论阻碍长期生态现场工作的主要制度障碍.
- 在学术和资金结构中提出可行的战略,以克服这些挑战.
- 倡导在生态研究中促进科学进步和社会公平的变化.
主要方法:
- 对现有的关于学术压力和生态科学的融资模式的文献进行批判性审查.
- 分析机构政策及其对长期研究倡议的影响.
- 综合科学界提出的解决方案和专家讨论.
主要成果:
- 发表或灭亡的文化鼓励短期,高影响力的研究,而不是长期的生态监测.
- 不足够和不稳定的资金流为从事长期实地工作的研究人员创造了不稳定性.
- 现有的评估指标往往没有认识到可持续的生态数据收集的价值和严格性.
结论:
- 扩大评估指标的范围超出出版数,包括长期数据生成和指导是必不可少的.
- 实施包容性实践和提供稳定的资金对于支持生态学研究人员的多样性至关重要.
- 解决这些制度障碍将增强科学洞察力,促进社会公平,并加强保护工作.
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