Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity
Abstrak
The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines. However, non-English-language science is expected to bring unique and valuable scientific information, especially in disciplines where the evidence is patchy, and for emergent issues where synthesising available evidence is an urgent challenge. Yet such contribution of non-English-language science to scientific communities and the application of science is rarely quantified. Here we show that non-English-language studies provide crucial evidence for informing global biodiversity conservation. By screening 419,680 peer-reviewed papers in 16 languages, we identified 1,234 non-English-language studies providing evidence on the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions, compared to 4,412 English-language studies identified with the same criteria. Relevant non-English-language studies are being published at an increasing rate, and can expand the geographical (by 12-25%) and taxonomic (by 5-32%) coverage of English-language evidence, especially in biodiverse regions, albeit often based on less robust study designs. Our results show that synthesising non-English-language studies is key to overcoming the widespread lack of local, context-dependent evidence and facilitating evidence-based conservation globally. We urge wider disciplines to rigorously reassess the untapped potential of non-English-language science in informing decisions to address other global challenges.
Penulis (63)
Tatsuya Amano
Violeta Berdejo Espinola
Alec P. Christie
Kate Willott
M. Akasaka
A. Báldi
A. Berthinussen
S. Bertolino
A. Bladon
Min Chen
Chang-Yong Choi
Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat
Luis G de Oliveira
P. Farhat
Marina Golivets
Nataly Hidalgo Aranzamendi
Kerstin Jantke
J. Kajzer-Bonk
M. Aytekin
I. Khorozyan
Kensuke Kito
Ko Konno
Da‐Li Lin
N. Littlewood
Yang Liu
Yifan Liu
Matthias-Claudio Loretto
V. Marconi
Philip A. Martin
W. H. Morgan
J. P. Narváez-Gómez
P. Negret
E. Nourani
Jose M Ochoa Quintero
N. Ockendon
Rachel Rui Ying Oh
S. Petrovan
A. C. Piovezan-Borges
I. Pollet
D. L. Ramos
Ana L. Reboredo Segovia
A. N. Rivera-Villanueva
R. Rocha
M. Rouyer
K. Sainsbury
R. Schuster
Dominik Schwab
Ç. Şekercioğlu
H. Seo
Gorm E. Shackelford
Yushin Shinoda
Rebecca K. Smith
Sha Tao
Ming-shan Tsai
E. Tyler
Flóra Vajna
J. Valdebenito
S. Vozykova
P. Waryszak
V. Zamora‐Gutierrez
R. D. Zenni
Wenjun Zhou
W. Sutherland
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 192×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.05.24.445520
- Akses
- Open Access ✓