articleScientific ReportsAug 16, 2017GOLD OA

Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

JTJulien TroudetPGPhilippe GrandcolasABAmandine BlinRVRégine Vignes‐LebbeFLFrédéric Legendre

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · École Pratique des Hautes Études · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

Century. Yet, most species remain unknown or unstudied, while others attract most of the public, scientific and government attention. Although known to be detrimental, this taxonomic bias continues to be pervasive in the scientific literature, but is still poorly studied and understood. Here, we used 626 million occurrences from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the biggest biodiversity data portal, to characterize the taxonomic bias in biodiversity data. We also investigated how societal preferences and taxonomic research relate to biodiversity data gathering. For each species belonging to 24 taxonomic classes, we used the number of publications from Web of Science and the number of web…

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  • Biodiversity
  • Citizen science
  • Global biodiversity
  • Taxonomic rank
  • Government (linguistics)
  • Data science
  • Geography
  • Ecology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Life in Land
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