Global trends and biases in biodiversity conservation research

Caldwell, Iain R.; Hobbs, Jean-Paul A.; Bowen, Brian W.; Cowman, Peter F.; DiBattista, Joseph D.; Whitney, Jon L.; Ahti, Pauliina A.; Belderok, Roy; Canfield, Sean; Coleman, Richard R.; Iacchei, Matthew; Johnston, Erika C.; Knapp, Ingrid; Nalley, Eileen M.; Staeudle, Timo M.; Láruson, Áki Jarl

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Global trends and biases in biodiversity conservation research

2024
By Caldwell, Iain R. ; Hobbs, Jean-Paul A. ; Bowen, Brian W.
Source Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(5), 100082

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Cell Reports Sustainability
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Caldwell, Iain R. ; Hobbs, Jean-Paul A. ; Bowen, Brian W. ; Cowman, Peter F. ; DiBattista, Joseph D. ; Whitney, Jon L. ; Ahti, Pauliina A. ; Belderok, Roy ; Canfield, Sean ; Coleman, Richard R. ; Iacchei, Matthew ; Johnston, Erika C. ; Knapp, Ingrid ; Nalley, Eileen M. ; Staeudle, Timo M. ; Láruson, Áki Jarl
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NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; Sea Grant ; PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center)
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While efforts to conserve biodiversity are increasing, research and conservation efforts are unequally allocated across different scales of biodiversity, with within-species diversity receiving the least overall attention. One potential solution is to realign funding priorities to promote efforts across different scales, from genetic to species to ecosystem. With limited funding, prioritization approaches seek to maximize impact by returning to ongoing conservation efforts or focusing on high-profile species. However, these approaches reinforce biases against more equitable allocation because a lack of knowledge about understudied groups can be seen as detrimental to conservation success and prohibitively expensive. This study shows that these biases in conservation research are long standing and still ongoing, which will ultimately lead to an uneven loss of biodiversity. Deliberate funding and targeted efforts are needed to investigate both understudied species and ecosystems.
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Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(5), 100082
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100082
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2949-7906
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Elsevier BV
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