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Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity
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The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines. However, non-English-language science is expected to bring unique and valuable scientific information, especially in disciplines where the evidence is patchy, and for emergent issues where synthesising available evidence is an urgent challenge. Yet such contribution of non- English-language science to scientific communities and the application of science is rarely quantified. Here, we show that non-English-language studies provide crucial evidence for informing global biodiversity conservation. By screening 419,679 peer-reviewed papers in 16 languages, we identified 1,234 non-English-language studies providing evidence on the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions, compared to 4,412 English-language studies identified with the same criteria. Relevant non-English-language studies are being published at an increasing rate in 6 out of the 12 languages where there were a sufficient number of relevant studies. Incorporating non-English-language studies can expand the geographical coverage (i.e., the number of 2° × 2° grid cells with relevant studies) of English-language evidence by 12% to 25%, especially in biodiverse regions, and taxonomic coverage (i.e., the number of species covered by the relevant studies) by 5% to 32%, although they do tend to be based on less robust study designs. Our results show that synthesising non-English-language studies is key to overcoming the widespread lack of local, context-dependent evidence and facilitating evidence-based conservation globally. We urge wider disciplines to rigorously reassess the untapped potential of non-English-language science in informing decisions to address other global challenges.
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Animals; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources; Geography; Language; Publications; Science
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001296
http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1856407
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In Other Words: What’s Happened to Metaphors in the Translation of Political Texts.
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In Other Words: What’s Happened to Metaphors in the Translation of Political Texts
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On the general value of evidence, and bilingual scene-text visual question answering
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In: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9142308/proceeding (2020)
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Extractive and abstractive sentence labelling of sentiment-bearing topics
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Correction to: Gene mutation spectrum and genotype-phenotype correlation in a cohort of Chinese osteogenesis imperfecta patients revealed by targeted next generation sequencing [<Journal>]
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Supplementary Material for: Diagnostic Accuracy of Combinations of Tumor Markers for Malignant Pleural Effusion: An Updated Meta-Analysis ...
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Supplementary Material for: Diagnostic Accuracy of Combinations of Tumor Markers for Malignant Pleural Effusion: An Updated Meta-Analysis ...
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Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text]
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A physiognomy based method for facial feature extraction and recognition
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Knowledge Author: Facilitating user-driven, Domain content development to support clinical information extraction
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The neural basis of deictic shifting in linguistic perspective-taking in high-functioning autism ...
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Лексика с семой запах в русском и китайском языках : магистерская диссертация ; Words with semantics smell in Russian and Chinese languages
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Developmental changes in the role of different metalinguistic awareness skills in Chinese reading acquisition from preschool to third grade
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Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton-proton collision data.
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In: Symplectic Elements at Oxford ; Europe PubMed Central ; PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) ; Web of Science (Lite) (http://apps.webofknowledge.com/summary.do) ; Scopus (http://www.scopus.com/home.url) ; CrossRef (2014)
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