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Global Scientific and Public Interest in Birds and their Conservation

2024-12-16

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Greater public support to conservation is needed to help address the global biodiversity crisis. However, human attention towards biodiversity is taxonomically biased, leaving many species neglected and their conservation needs unmet. Here we investigated the drivers of public and scientific interest for 10,509 bird species, measured by Wikipedia pageviews and articles in Web of Knowledge. We then used a quasi-exp...

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Literature Corpus work: d15bff1f-fbbc-58c9-b087-dbe0ef712a68
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.12.628088

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