| Authors | Stefano Mammola, Caroline S. Fukushima, Girolama Biondo, Lucia Bongiorni, Fabio Cianferoni, Paolo Domenici, Carmelo Fruciano, Angelina Lo Giudice, Nuria Macías-Hernández, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Marija Mili?i?, Michelangelo Morganti, Emiliano Mori, Ana Munévar, Paola Pollegioni, Ilaria Rosati, Simone Tenan, Fernando Urbano-Tenorio, Diego Fontaneto, Pedro Cardoso |
| Text | 476866 2023 10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.003 biodiversity How much biodiversity is concealed in the word biodiversity Stefano Mammola, Caroline S. Fukushima, Girolama Biondo, Lucia Bongiorni, Fabio Cianferoni, Paolo Domenici, Carmelo Fruciano, Angelina Lo Giudice, Nuria Macias Hernandez, Jagoba Malumbres Olarte, Marija Mili i , Michelangelo Morganti, Emiliano Mori, Ana Munevar, Paola Pollegioni, Ilaria Rosati, Simone Tenan, Fernando Urbano Tenorio, Diego Fontaneto, Pedro Cardoso Water Research Institute, National Research Council CNR , Verbania Pallanza, Italy Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy Biodiversity Working Group GDL Biodiversita , CNR, Rome, Italy Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilita in ambiente marino, CNR, Campobello di Mazara, Italy Institute of Marine Sciences, CNR, Venice, Italy Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, CNR, Sesto Fiorentino Florence , Italy La Specola Natural History Museum, Florence, Italy Istituto di Biofisica, CNR, Pisa, Italy Istituto per lo studio degli impatti Antropici e Sostenibilita in ambiente marino, CNR, Oristano, Italy Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology, CNR, Messina, Italy Institute of Polar Sciences, CNR, Messina, Italy Department of Animal Biology, Edaphology and Geology, University of Laguna, La Laguna, Spain Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores, Azores, Portugal BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia Water Research Institute, CNR, Brugherio, Italy IBS Instituto de Biologia Subtropical, Puerto Iguazu, Misiones, Argentina Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, CNR, Porano, Terni, Italy Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, CNR, Lecce, Italy Amidst a global biodiversity crisis, the word biodiversity has become indispensable for conservation and management2. Yet, biodiversity is often used as a buzzword in scientific literature. Resonant titles of papers claiming to have studied global biodiversity may be used to promote research focused on a few taxonomic groups, habitats, or facets of biodiversity taxonomic, phylo genetic, or functional. This usage may lead to extrapolating results outside the target systems of these studies with direct consequences for our understanding of life on Earth and its practical conservation. Here, we used a random sample of papers with the word biodiversity in their title to take a long view of the use of this term. Despite improvements in analytical tools, monitoring technologies, and data availability3,4, we found that the taxonomic scope of research articles has not increased in recent years. We also show that studies with a wider taxonomic scope attract more citations and online attention. Our results have broad ramifications for understanding how extrapolating from studies with narrow taxonomic scope affects our view of global biodiversity and conservation. 33 Published version https //www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222019030 CB 1 s2.0 S0960982222019030 main.pdf Articolo in rivista Current Biology, 0960 9822 Current biology Current biology Curr. biol. Current biology. CB. Current biology paolo.domenici DOMENICI PAOLO lucia.bongiorni BONGIORNI LUCIA diego.fontaneto FONTANETO DIEGO ilaria.rosati ROSATI ILARIA angelina.logiudice LO GIUDICE ANGELINA paola.pollegioni POLLEGIONI PAOLA stefano.mammola MAMMOLA STEFANO michelangelo.morganti MORGANTI MICHELANGELO emiliano.mori MORI EMILIANO simone.tenan TENAN SIMONE fabio.cianferoni CIANFERONI FABIO carmelo.fruciano FRUCIANO CARMELO girolama.biondo BIONDO GIROLAMA PRR.AP005.006.001 NBFC_SPOKE3_ ASSESSING AND MONITORING TERRESTRIAL AND FRESHWATER BIODIVERSITY AND ITS EVOLUTION FROM TAXONOMY TO GENOMICS AND CITIZEN SCIENCE_IRSA |
