Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 9132 - 9132
Published: Aug 22, 2017
Abstract
Studying and protecting each and every living species on Earth is a major challenge of the 21st century. Yet, most species remain unknown or unstudied, while others attract most of the public, scientific and government attention. Although known to be detrimental, this taxonomic bias continues to be pervasive in the scientific literature, but is still poorly studied and understood. Here, we used 626 million occurrences from the Global...
Paper Details
Title
Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences
Published Date
Aug 22, 2017
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
9132 - 9132
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