Regional scientific research benefits threatened-species conservation

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（6）
• 页码范围: 1076-1079
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz090

摘要

Although conventional wisdom considers knowledge of threatened species' ecology and status essential for conservation,few studies demonstrate this in a quantitative way across many species and within the same political entity.Here,we evaluated the impacts of scientific research against conservation interventions (including funding) and specieslevel correlates,accounting for phylogenetic relatedness,on the conservation of 162 threatened mammal species in China.We did so at three levels:global (all scientific papers published on the species),regional (a subset of the global papers that included at least one author from a local organization) and regional conservation-related (a subset of the regional papers that focused only on ecology and conservation).In addition to protected-area coverage and certain biological traits,regional conservationrelated research emerged as an important predictor of species recovery.