Persistent spatial gaps in ornithological study in Australia, 1901–2011
| العنوان: | Persistent spatial gaps in ornithological study in Australia, 1901–2011 |
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| المؤلفون: | Desley A. Whisson, Michael A. Weston, Matthew R. E. Symonds, Maree R. Yarwood |
| المصدر: | Archives of Natural History. 47:264-271 |
| بيانات النشر: | Edinburgh University Press, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, History, Geography, Anthropology, Biogeography, Spatial ecology, Ornithology, Scale (map), 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Cartography, 010605 ornithology |
| الوصف: | At the continental scale, ecological research effort is not spatially uniform. We used a century-long bibliometric database of the journal Emu – Austral Ornithology to index the spatial patterns in bird research in Australia (from articles with explicit study locations). Studies have been concentrated in Tasmania and the southwest, southeast and coastal parts of the mainland. Large spatial gaps exist in ornithological study, which are similar to those identified by Arnold Robert McGill in his 1948 review paper ( McGill 1948 ). Pre-1948 only 9.4% of articles [n = 2,107] fell within the gaps mapped by McGill in 1948, indicating that his mapping was largely accurate. These gaps have largely persisted; only 11.2% of the 1,498 articles published since 1948 came from within those gaps. We present a complementary spatial gap analysis, which focuses on studies of areas with broadly similar biogeographies (Interim Biogeographical Regions of Australia (IBRAs)). Of 85 mainland IBRAs (of 89 defined), five have no bird studies from within them (368,380 km2; 4.9% of Australia), and 34 have less than 10 studies (3,335,498 km2; 43.9%). We intersect IBRAs with McGill's gaps and show that some IBRAs within McGill's gaps are now better-studied, but 64.8% of the area within the McGill gaps boundaries comprises IBRAs where there have been no post-1948 studies in Emu. We also present an updated map of key geographical gaps in the study of Australian birds, which apparently remain extensive 60 years after they were first identified. |
| تدمد: | 1755-6260 0260-9541 |
| DOI: | 10.3366/anh.2020.0653 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::43201cb21d29097b5a559a114217fc21 https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0653 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........43201cb21d29097b5a559a114217fc21 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17556260 02609541 |
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| DOI: | 10.3366/anh.2020.0653 |