Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed

Russell, Ann E.; Aide, T. Mitchell; Braker, Elizabeth; Ganong, Carissa N.; Hardin, Rebecca; Holl, Karen D.; Hotchkiss, Sara C.; Klemens, Jeffrey A.; Kuprewicz, Erin K.; McClearn, Deedra; Middendorf, George; Ostertag, Rebecca; Powers, Jennifer S.; Russo, Sabrina E.; Stynoski, Jennifer L.; Valdez, Ursula; Willis, Charles G.

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001674

PLoS Biol

2022

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001674

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Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed

Ann E. Russell

T. Mitchell Aide

Elizabeth Braker

et al.

Abstract: Understanding tropical biology is important for solving complex problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic pandemics, but biology curricula view research mostly via a temperate-zone lens. Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed to tackle these issues.

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Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers

Nakamura,

Soares,

Pillar

et al. 2023

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It is widely perceived how research institutes have been adopting the discourse of champions of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in recent years. Despite progress in diversity and inclusion in the academic environment, we highlight here that nothing or, at very best, little work has been done to overcome the scientific labor division in academic research that promotes neocolonial practices in academic recognition and jeopardizes equity. In this piece, we bring secondary data that reinforce biased patterns in academic recognition between Global North and South (geographical markers and citation bias), and propose three actions that should be adopted by researchers, research institutes, journals, and scientific societies from the Global North that allows for a fairer recognition of the academic expertise produced by the Global South.

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Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers

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Pillar

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Is there really such a thing as Tropical Biology?

Bruna

2024

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The ecosystems of The Tropics comprise a majority of the planet's biodiversity, approximately 40% of its terrestrial surface area, and half the human population. Despite this, Tropical Biology has historically been conceptualized as a specialized subdiscipline of the Biological Sciences. I assessed the validity of this assumption and conclude that it depends on the framework and evidence used to evaluate it. I suggest that the way forward as a discipline is not for Tropical Biologists to drop the geographic adjective that unites them, but to recenter The Tropics as the foundation of ecology and evolutionary biology.Abstract in Spanish is available with online material.

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Correction: Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed

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Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed

Cited by 4 publications

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Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers

Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers

Is there really such a thing as Tropical Biology?

Correction: Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed

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