TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments
AU - Amano, Tatsuya
AU - Berdejo-Espinola, Violeta
AU - Akasaka, Munemitsu
AU - de Andrade Junior, Milton A.U.
AU - Blaise, Ndayizeye
AU - Checco, Julia
AU - Çilingir, F. Gözde
AU - Citegetse, Geoffroy
AU - Corella Tor, Marina
AU - Drobniak, Szymon M.
AU - Giakoumi, Sylvaine
AU - Golivets, Marina
AU - Ion, Mihaela C.
AU - Jara-Díaz, Javiera P.
AU - Katayose, Ryosuke
AU - Lasmana, Felicia P.S.
AU - Lin, Hsien Yung
AU - Lopez, Erick
AU - Mikula, Peter
AU - Morales-Barquero, Lucia
AU - Mupepele, Anne Christine
AU - Narváez-Gómez, Juan P.
AU - Nguyen, Thi Hieu
AU - Lisboa, Sá Nogueira
AU - Nuñez, Martin A.
AU - Pavón-Jordán, Diego
AU - Pottier, Patrice
AU - Prescott, Graham W.
AU - Samad, Farah
AU - Šćiban, Marko
AU - Seo, Hae Min
AU - Shinoda, Yushin
AU - Vajna, Flóra
AU - Vozykova, Svetlana
AU - Walsh, Jessica C.
AU - Wee, Alison K.S.
AU - Xiao, Hui
AU - Zamora-Gutierrez, Veronica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - Consulting the best available evidence is key to successful conservation decision-making. While much scientific evidence on conservation continues to be published in non-English languages, a poor understanding of how non-English-language science contributes to conservation decision-making is causing global assessments and studies to practically ignore non-English-language literature. By investigating the use of scientific literature in biodiversity assessment reports across 37 countries/territories, we have uncovered the established role of non-English-language literature as a major source of information locally. On average, non-English-language literature constituted 65% of the references cited, and these were recognized as relevant knowledge sources by 75% of report authors. This means that by ignoring non-English-language science, international assessments may overlook important information on local and/or regional biodiversity. Furthermore, a quarter of the authors acknowledged the struggles of understanding English-language literature. This points to the need to aid the use of English-language literature in domestic decision-making, for example, by providing non-English-language abstracts or improving and/or implementing machine translation. (This abstract is also avaialble in 21 other languages in Supplementary Data 4).
AB - Consulting the best available evidence is key to successful conservation decision-making. While much scientific evidence on conservation continues to be published in non-English languages, a poor understanding of how non-English-language science contributes to conservation decision-making is causing global assessments and studies to practically ignore non-English-language literature. By investigating the use of scientific literature in biodiversity assessment reports across 37 countries/territories, we have uncovered the established role of non-English-language literature as a major source of information locally. On average, non-English-language literature constituted 65% of the references cited, and these were recognized as relevant knowledge sources by 75% of report authors. This means that by ignoring non-English-language science, international assessments may overlook important information on local and/or regional biodiversity. Furthermore, a quarter of the authors acknowledged the struggles of understanding English-language literature. This points to the need to aid the use of English-language literature in domestic decision-making, for example, by providing non-English-language abstracts or improving and/or implementing machine translation. (This abstract is also avaialble in 21 other languages in Supplementary Data 4).
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U2 - 10.1038/s41893-023-01087-8
DO - 10.1038/s41893-023-01087-8
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85150078965
SN - 2398-9629
VL - 6
SP - 845
EP - 854
JO - Nature Sustainability
JF - Nature Sustainability
IS - 7
ER -