Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research
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Resumo: | Conservation biology is designed to identify pressing environmental problems and to solve them.This review evaluates the relative effort of conservation biology in problem-based and solution-basedresearch, and tests whether or not this has changed in the past decades for five major drivers of biodiver-sity loss, i.e. habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, biological invasion, pollution, and climatechange. By randomly sampling papers from four decades of the conservation literature (1980–2019),we estimated the frequency of solution-based research related to the five biodiversity loss drivers. Wealso estimated how the ratio of the words ‘problem’ and ‘solution’ has changed over time, as a proxyfor discourse bias. We found that a quarter of the scientific papers on conservation constitute solution-based research, while three-quarters were classified as problem-based. Temporal analyses showed thatthe proportion of solution-based papers increased along the four decades, from 0.18 to 0.30, mostly dueto research on effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, and overexploitation. The solution-to-problemword ratio increased steadily, from almost zero in the 1980s to 0.60 in 2019. Significant increases occurred or all drivers of biodiversity loss, indicating an important temporal change in conservation discourse andconcerns. We propose that, in order to be more effective against the biodiversity crisis, conservation sci-ence should expand the solution-based agenda by active changes in graduate education, research choice,research funding priority, editorial emphasis, and media coverage that can produce desired impacts onconservation practice, public perception, and environmental policies. |
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Fonseca, Carlos RobertoPaterno, Gustavo B.Guadagnin, Demétrio LuísVenticinque, Eduardo MartinsOverbeck, Gerhard ErnstGanade, GisleneMetzger, Jean PaulKollmann, JohannesSauer, JohannesCardoso, Marcio ZikánLopes, Priscila Fabiana MacedoOliveira, Rafael SilvaPillar, Valerio de PattaWeisser, Wolfgang W.2021-08-10T04:31:25Z20212530-0644http://hdl.handle.net/10183/225379001127305Conservation biology is designed to identify pressing environmental problems and to solve them.This review evaluates the relative effort of conservation biology in problem-based and solution-basedresearch, and tests whether or not this has changed in the past decades for five major drivers of biodiver-sity loss, i.e. habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, biological invasion, pollution, and climatechange. By randomly sampling papers from four decades of the conservation literature (1980–2019),we estimated the frequency of solution-based research related to the five biodiversity loss drivers. Wealso estimated how the ratio of the words ‘problem’ and ‘solution’ has changed over time, as a proxyfor discourse bias. We found that a quarter of the scientific papers on conservation constitute solution-based research, while three-quarters were classified as problem-based. Temporal analyses showed thatthe proportion of solution-based papers increased along the four decades, from 0.18 to 0.30, mostly dueto research on effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, and overexploitation. The solution-to-problemword ratio increased steadily, from almost zero in the 1980s to 0.60 in 2019. Significant increases occurred or all drivers of biodiversity loss, indicating an important temporal change in conservation discourse andconcerns. We propose that, in order to be more effective against the biodiversity crisis, conservation sci-ence should expand the solution-based agenda by active changes in graduate education, research choice,research funding priority, editorial emphasis, and media coverage that can produce desired impacts onconservation practice, public perception, and environmental policies.application/pdfengPerspectives in Ecology and Conservation. [Barcelona]. Vol. 19, n. 2 (2021), p. 121 - 130Invasão biológicaMudança climáticaFragmentação ambientalOverexploitationConservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based researchEstrangeiroinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRGSinstname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)instacron:UFRGSTEXT001127305.pdf.txt001127305.pdf.txtExtracted Texttext/plain0http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/10183/225379/2/001127305.pdf.txtd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427eMD52ORIGINAL001127305.pdfTexto completo (inglês)application/pdf5874811http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/10183/225379/1/001127305.pdff0cd021ed8728711bff088b34e645c69MD5110183/2253792022-10-13 04:49:24.119053oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/225379Repositório de PublicaçõesPUBhttps://lume.ufrgs.br/oai/requestopendoar:2022-10-13T07:49:24Repositório Institucional da UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)false |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research Fonseca, Carlos Roberto Invasão biológica Mudança climática Fragmentação ambiental Overexploitation |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research |
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Fonseca, Carlos Roberto |
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Fonseca, Carlos Roberto Paterno, Gustavo B. Guadagnin, Demétrio Luís Venticinque, Eduardo Martins Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst Ganade, Gislene Metzger, Jean Paul Kollmann, Johannes Sauer, Johannes Cardoso, Marcio Zikán Lopes, Priscila Fabiana Macedo Oliveira, Rafael Silva Pillar, Valerio de Patta Weisser, Wolfgang W. |
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Paterno, Gustavo B. Guadagnin, Demétrio Luís Venticinque, Eduardo Martins Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst Ganade, Gislene Metzger, Jean Paul Kollmann, Johannes Sauer, Johannes Cardoso, Marcio Zikán Lopes, Priscila Fabiana Macedo Oliveira, Rafael Silva Pillar, Valerio de Patta Weisser, Wolfgang W. |
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Fonseca, Carlos Roberto Paterno, Gustavo B. Guadagnin, Demétrio Luís Venticinque, Eduardo Martins Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst Ganade, Gislene Metzger, Jean Paul Kollmann, Johannes Sauer, Johannes Cardoso, Marcio Zikán Lopes, Priscila Fabiana Macedo Oliveira, Rafael Silva Pillar, Valerio de Patta Weisser, Wolfgang W. |
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Invasão biológica Mudança climática Fragmentação ambiental |
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Invasão biológica Mudança climática Fragmentação ambiental Overexploitation |
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Overexploitation |
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Conservation biology is designed to identify pressing environmental problems and to solve them.This review evaluates the relative effort of conservation biology in problem-based and solution-basedresearch, and tests whether or not this has changed in the past decades for five major drivers of biodiver-sity loss, i.e. habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, biological invasion, pollution, and climatechange. By randomly sampling papers from four decades of the conservation literature (1980–2019),we estimated the frequency of solution-based research related to the five biodiversity loss drivers. Wealso estimated how the ratio of the words ‘problem’ and ‘solution’ has changed over time, as a proxyfor discourse bias. We found that a quarter of the scientific papers on conservation constitute solution-based research, while three-quarters were classified as problem-based. Temporal analyses showed thatthe proportion of solution-based papers increased along the four decades, from 0.18 to 0.30, mostly dueto research on effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, and overexploitation. The solution-to-problemword ratio increased steadily, from almost zero in the 1980s to 0.60 in 2019. Significant increases occurred or all drivers of biodiversity loss, indicating an important temporal change in conservation discourse andconcerns. We propose that, in order to be more effective against the biodiversity crisis, conservation sci-ence should expand the solution-based agenda by active changes in graduate education, research choice,research funding priority, editorial emphasis, and media coverage that can produce desired impacts onconservation practice, public perception, and environmental policies. |
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