Conservation culturomics should include images and a wider range of scholars

Sherren, Kate; Smit, Michael; Holmlund, Mona; Parkins, John R.; Chen, Yan

doi:10.1002/fee.1507

“…Yet, most of them either represent specific sectors, such as newspaper articles, or are generated by different processes, and therefore may provide essentially different information. Although they have been relatively rarely used so far, web-based images also seem to represent a suitable tool for data mining (Barve, 2014;Jarić et al, 2016;Ladle et al, 2017;Sherren et al, 2017aSherren et al, , 2017b. Images and other visual media may be especially adequate for culturomic studies that are focused on species attractiveness and charisma, which is particularly relevant for the field of conservation biology.…”

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On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

Jarić

¹

,

Correia

²

,

Roberts

³

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Attention directed at different species by society and science is particularly relevant within the field of conservation, as societal preferences will strongly impact support for conservation initiatives and their success. Here, we assess the association between societal and research interests in four charismatic and threatened species groups, derived from a range of different online sources and social media platforms as well as scientific publications. We found a high level of concordance between scientific and societal taxonomic attention, which was consistent among assessed species groups and media sources. Results indicate that research is apparently not as disconnected from the interests of society as it is often reproached, and that societal support for current research objectives should be adequate. While the high degree of similarity between scientific and societal interest is both striking and satisfying, the dissimilarities are also interesting, as new scientific findings may constitute a constant source of novel interest for the society. In that respect, additional efforts will be necessary to draw scientific and societal focus towards less charismatic species that are in urgent need of research and conservation attention.

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“…They can also be used to maximise synergies between biodiversity conservation and cultural values (Turnhout et al 2013), identify conflicting areas (or disservices) emerging from recreational activities (such as skiing) tourism and strictly protected zones (with protected habitats/species; Van Cuong et al 2017), support the monitoring of the natural and cultural capital through remote observations (i.e. "Digital conservation"; Arts et al 2015) and assist on data collection and dissemination for scientific research and evidence-based conservation (Sherren et al 2017).…”

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Social media photo content for Sierra Nevada: a dataset to support the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in protected areas

Ros-Candeira¹,

Moreno-Llorca²,

et al. 2020

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This dataset provides crowd-sourced and georeferenced information useful for the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in the Sierra Nevada Biosphere Reserve (southern Spain). Data were collected within the European project ECOPOTENTIAL focused on Earth observations of ecosystem services. The dataset comprises 778 records expressing the results of the content analysis of social media photos published in Flickr. Our dataset is illustrated in this data paper with density maps for different types of information.

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“…They can also be used to maximise synergies between biodiversity conservation and cultural values (Turnhout et al 2013), identify conflicting areas (or disservices) emerging from recreational activities (such as skiing) tourism and strictly protected zones (with protected habitats/species; Van Cuong et al 2017), support the monitoring of the natural and cultural capital through remote observations (i.e. "Digital conservation"; Arts et al 2015) and assist on data collection and dissemination for scientific research and evidence-based conservation (Sherren et al 2017).…”

Section: Dataset Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social media photo content for Sierra Nevada: a dataset to support the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in protected areas

Ros-Candeira¹,

Moreno-Llorca²,

et al. 2020

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This dataset provides crowd-sourced and georeferenced information useful for the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in the Sierra Nevada Biosphere Reserve (southern Spain). Data were collected within the European project ECOPOTENTIAL focused on Earth observations of ecosystem services. The dataset comprises 778 records expressing the results of the content analysis of social media photos published in Flickr. Our dataset is illustrated in this data paper with density maps for different types of information.

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Conservation culturomics should include images and a wider range of scholars

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On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions — Insights for conservation

Social media photo content for Sierra Nevada: a dataset to support the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in protected areas

Social media photo content for Sierra Nevada: a dataset to support the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in protected areas

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