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Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life.
Mammola, Stefano; Adamo, Martino; Antic, Dragan; Calevo, Jacopo; Cancellario, Tommaso; Cardoso, Pedro; Chamberlain, Dan; Chialva, Matteo; Durucan, Furkan; Fontaneto, Diego; Goncalves, Duarte; Martínez, Alejandro; Santini, Luca; Rubio-Lopez, Iñigo; Sousa, Ronaldo; Villegas-Rios, David; Verdes, Aida; Correia, Ricardo A.
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  • Mammola S; Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), National Research Council, Verbania, Italy.
  • Adamo M; Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research (LIBRe), Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Antic D; National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy.
  • Calevo J; National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy.
  • Cancellario T; Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
  • Cardoso P; University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Chamberlain D; Royal Botanic Gardens, London, United Kingdom.
  • Chialva M; School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
  • Durucan F; Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), National Research Council, Verbania, Italy.
  • Fontaneto D; Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research (LIBRe), Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Goncalves D; Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
  • Martínez A; National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy.
  • Santini L; Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
  • Rubio-Lopez I; Department of Aquaculture, Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Isparta, Turkey.
  • Sousa R; Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), National Research Council, Verbania, Italy.
  • Villegas-Rios D; National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy.
  • Verdes A; CIIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal.
  • Correia RA; Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (CNR-IRSA), National Research Council, Verbania, Italy.
Elife ; 122023 10 17.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37846960
Knowledge of biodiversity is unevenly distributed across the Tree of Life. In the long run, such disparity in awareness unbalances our understanding of life on Earth, influencing policy decisions and the allocation of research and conservation funding. We investigated how humans accumulate knowledge of biodiversity by searching for consistent relationships between scientific (number of publications) and societal (number of views in Wikipedia) interest, and species-level morphological, ecological, and sociocultural factors. Across a random selection of 3019 species spanning 29 Phyla/Divisions, we show that sociocultural factors are the most important correlates of scientific and societal interest in biodiversity, including the fact that a species is useful or harmful to humans, has a common name, and is listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Furthermore, large-bodied, broadly distributed, and taxonomically unique species receive more scientific and societal attention, whereas colorfulness and phylogenetic proximity to humans correlate exclusively with societal attention. These results highlight a favoritism toward limited branches of the Tree of Life, and that scientific and societal priorities in biodiversity research broadly align. This suggests that we may be missing out on key species in our research and conservation agenda simply because they are not on our cultural radar.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Conservación de los Recursos Naturales / Biodiversidad Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Elife Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Italia Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Conservación de los Recursos Naturales / Biodiversidad Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Elife Año: 2023 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Italia Pais de publicación: Reino Unido