The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/23:97592

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01087-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01087-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01087-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41893-023-01087-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments

Original language description

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).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature Sustainability

ISSN

2398-9629

e-ISSN

2398-9629

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

845-854

UT code for WoS article

000953001900002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85150078965