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Article: Insights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science

TitleInsights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science
Authors
KeywordsBias
Capacity building
Cross-disciplinarity
Early career
Field study
Issue Date2020
PublisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/biocon
Citation
Biological Conservation, 2020, v. 243, p. article no. 108478 How to Cite?
AbstractConservation science is a crisis-oriented discipline focused on reducing human impacts on nature. To explore how the field has changed over the past two decades, we analyzed 3245 applications for oral presentations submitted to the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Cambridge, UK. SCCS has been running every year since 2000, aims for global representation by providing bursaries to early-career conservationists from lower-income countries, and has never had a thematic focus, beyond conservation in the broadest sense. We found that the majority of projects submitted to SCCS were based on primary biological data collected from local scale field studies in the tropics, contrary to established literature which highlights gaps in tropical research. Our results showed a small increase over time in submissions framed around how nature benefits people as well as a small increase in submissions integrating social science. Our findings suggest that students and early-career conservationists could provide pathways to increase availability of data from the tropics and address well-known biases in the published literature towards wealthier countries. We hope this research will motivate efforts to support student projects, ensuring data and results are published and data made publicly available.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/284995
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.9
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.985
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dc.contributor.authorGeldman, J-
dc.contributor.authorAlves-Pinto, H-
dc.contributor.authorAmano, T-
dc.contributor.authorBartlett, H-
dc.contributor.authorChristie, AP-
dc.contributor.authorCollas, L-
dc.contributor.authorCooke, SC-
dc.contributor.authorCorrea, R-
dc.contributor.authorCripps, I-
dc.contributor.authorDoherty, A-
dc.contributor.authorFinch, T-
dc.contributor.authorGarnett, EE-
dc.contributor.authorHua, F-
dc.contributor.authorGordon Jones, JP-
dc.contributor.authorKasoar, T-
dc.contributor.authorMacFarlane, D-
dc.contributor.authorMartin, PA-
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, N-
dc.contributor.authorMumby, HS-
dc.contributor.authorPayne, C-
dc.contributor.authorPetrovan, SO-
dc.contributor.authorRocha, R-
dc.contributor.authorRussell, K-
dc.contributor.authorSimmons, BI-
dc.contributor.authorWauchope, HS-
dc.contributor.authorWorthington, TA-
dc.contributor.authorTrevelyan, R-
dc.contributor.authorGreen, R-
dc.contributor.authorBalmford, A-
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-07T09:05:22Z-
dc.date.available2020-08-07T09:05:22Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationBiological Conservation, 2020, v. 243, p. article no. 108478-
dc.identifier.issn0006-3207-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/284995-
dc.description.abstractConservation science is a crisis-oriented discipline focused on reducing human impacts on nature. To explore how the field has changed over the past two decades, we analyzed 3245 applications for oral presentations submitted to the Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Cambridge, UK. SCCS has been running every year since 2000, aims for global representation by providing bursaries to early-career conservationists from lower-income countries, and has never had a thematic focus, beyond conservation in the broadest sense. We found that the majority of projects submitted to SCCS were based on primary biological data collected from local scale field studies in the tropics, contrary to established literature which highlights gaps in tropical research. Our results showed a small increase over time in submissions framed around how nature benefits people as well as a small increase in submissions integrating social science. Our findings suggest that students and early-career conservationists could provide pathways to increase availability of data from the tropics and address well-known biases in the published literature towards wealthier countries. We hope this research will motivate efforts to support student projects, ensuring data and results are published and data made publicly available.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherElsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/biocon-
dc.relation.ispartofBiological Conservation-
dc.subjectBias-
dc.subjectCapacity building-
dc.subjectCross-disciplinarity-
dc.subjectEarly career-
dc.subjectField study-
dc.titleInsights from two decades of the Student Conference on Conservation Science-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailMumby, HS: hsmumby@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityMumby, HS=rp02538-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108478-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85081329649-
dc.identifier.hkuros312454-
dc.identifier.volume243-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 108478-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 108478-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000526787100021-
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands-
dc.identifier.issnl0006-3207-

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