Societal extinction of species

Jarić, Ivan; Roll, Uri; Bonaiuto, Marino; Brook, Barry W.; Courchamp, Franck; Firth, Josh A.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Heger, Tina; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Ladle, Richard J.; Meinard, Yves; Roberts, David L.; Sherren, Kate; Soga, Masashi; Soriano‐Redondo, Andrea; Veríssimo, Diogo; Correia, Ricardo A.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.011

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“…In the future, our hope is that platforms of this sort can sit within an online observatory of similar metrics. Such a platform would help to realise the aim of many in the CC community (Jarić et al, 2020) for an observatory that tracks analogues of societal extinction (Jarić et al, 2022). Ideally, such a monitoring system would incorporate a number of datasets, including Wikipedia, Baidu-Baike, Twitter, and Google, to capture a broad demographic and geographic distribution of users.…”

Section: Envisioning a Future For Real-time Monitoring In Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The SAI describes the rate of change in Wikipedia page views for ~40,000 species across 10 Wikipedia languages, adjusted for the background change in each language (Millard et al, 2021). The SAI could in theory be used to track the societal extinction of species (Jarić et al, 2022), as a complement to biological extinction measured through metrics such as the Red List Index (Butchart et al, 2007), the Living Planet Index (LPI: Collen et al, 2009), or the Biodiversity Intactness Index (De Palma et al, 2021). Our prototype platform is currently hosted online as a Shiny app (https://joemillard.shinyapps.io/Real_time_SAI/), which will update automatically each month through a batch process that runs virtually.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Realising the potential of real-time online monitoring for conservation culturomics

Johnson¹,

Cornford²,

Dove³

et al. 2022

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Environmental monitoring is increasingly shifting towards a set of systems that describe changes in real-time. In ecology specifically, a series of challenges have prevented the roll-out of real-time monitoring for features such as biodiversity change or ecosystem service provision. Conservation culturomics, a field concerned with interactions between people and nature, is well-placed to demonstrate how monitoring might move towards a network of real-time platforms, given its existence almost exclusively in the digital realm. Here we describe a set of considerations associated with the development of real-time monitoring platforms for conservation culturomics. We then introduce a near real-time platform for the Species Awareness Index, a global index of changing biodiversity awareness derived from the rate of change in page views for species on Wikipedia. This platform will update automatically each month, operating in near real-time (hosted here: https://joemillard.shinyapps.io/Real_time_SAI/), with plans to make the underlying data queryable via an API independent of the platform. The real-time SAI will represent the first real-time and entirely automated conservation culturomic platform, and one of the first within the discipline of ecology. We conclude by envisioning a future for real-time monitoring, presenting a general framework for real-time monitoring in ecology, and calling for an online real-time observatory that can evolve with the structure of the web.

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Section: Envisioning a Future For Real-time Monitoring In Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Realising the potential of real-time online monitoring for conservation culturomics

Johnson¹,

Cornford²,

Dove³

et al. 2022

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“…The knowledge of plants reflects how humans perceive plants’ values in general and is extensively useful in a diverse range of applications in the form of provisional and cultural ecosystem services, including food, material, biomedical applications, and esthetical and cultural values ( 51 ). However, modern human society causes rapidly increasing disconnectedness from nature ( 52 ), which erodes humans’ cultural knowledge and collective memory of species ( 53 ). As Jarić et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As Jarić et al. ( 53 ) explained, this phenomenon, which is referred to as the ‘societal extinction of species’, can weaken pro-environmental attitude and behavior, leading to degraded support for species conservation. Third, the concept of ‘charismatic plant’ has been extensively used in species promotion and raising awareness—including as national symbols, by conservation organizations (such as botanical gardens, natural parks and conservation science) and plant-related businesses (plant nurseries, seed companies, florists, etc.…”

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WASP: the World Archives of Species Perception

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While human perception can play a role in influencing public support for species conservation, the mechanisms underlying human perception remain poorly understood. Some previous studies on perception have focused on a few specific taxa, which makes the understanding of the public perception of species at large a resource- and time-intensive task. Here, we introduce the World Archives of Species Perception project that consists of an animal survey and a plant survey to construct the first systematic database to study the human perception of the floral and faunal diversity at a global scale. We provide a description of our survey method, species selection, survey implementation and a discussion of the potential uses of our databases in multidisciplinary research. In the animal survey, we cover 1980 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)–evaluated species, representing 25 classes, 192 orders, 1037 families and 1705 genera. In the plant survey, we cover 2000 IUCN-evaluated species, representing 13 classes, 93 orders, 386 families and 1968 genera. Data from the survey will be collected and made available 24 months after the publication of the article.Database URL http://wasp-project.net/

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“…Global biodiversity is disappearing at an accelerating pace, not only from the physical world (1-3) but also from our minds (4,5). Insofar as the long-term survival of humanity is intertwined with the natural world (6), preserving biodiversity in all its forms and functions is a central imperative of the 21 st century (2,7,8).…”

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How much biodiversity is concealed in the word “biodiversity”?

Mammola¹,

Fukushima²,

Biondo³

et al. 2022

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Amidst a global biodiversity crisis, the word “biodiversity” has become indispensable for practical conservation, including as a normative term. Yet, biodiversity is often used as a buzzword in scientific literature. Resonant titles promoting to have studied “global biodiversity” may then be used to oversell research that is narrow-focused on a limited sample of taxonomic groups, regions, or habitats. We selected a random sample of ~900 papers with the word “biodiversity” in their title to take a long view of the use and misuse of this term. We analyzed the degree to which studies actually consider different taxonomic groups and biodiversity facets and how all of this translates to the impact of a paper. As many as 22% of the articles used the term biodiversity in the title but did not measure it at any level. Among the articles sampling biodiversity directly, the proportion of biodiversity investigated was systematically low. We documented a decrease in the taxonomic scope of articles in recent years, especially those relying on big data. This is in stark contrast with the parallel advances in analytical tools, monitoring technologies, and the availability of data. Importantly, studies with general titles (i.e., using the word “biodiversity” without mentioning any taxa, habitat, or region) attract more citations and online attention (Altmetric), but only when they also have a wider taxonomic scope. Our results have broad ramifications for understanding how the extrapolation from studies with narrow taxonomic scope shapes our view of global biodiversity patterns and poorly informs conservation practices.

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Societal extinction of species

Cited by 39 publications

References 66 publications

Realising the potential of real-time online monitoring for conservation culturomics

Realising the potential of real-time online monitoring for conservation culturomics

WASP: the World Archives of Species Perception

How much biodiversity is concealed in the word “biodiversity”?

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