Taxonomic Bias in Conservation Research
SciencePublished 12 July 2002
J. Alan Clark, Robert M. May
Citations563
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.42
SNIP6.62
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Research bias is pervasive in organismal research; i.e., research is not proportional to organisms' frequency in nature, and a reasonable proxy measure is to evaluate subject organisms in the research literature.
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Taxonomic bias is pervasive in organismal research; i.e., research is not proportional to organisms' frequency in nature ([1][1]–[4][2]). Quantifying research bias is difficult, but a reasonable proxy measure is to evaluate subject organisms in the research literature (e.g., [1][1], [4][2]). For
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