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AUTHOR
Correia, Ricardo
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Public awareness of extinction threats in European threatened species
2018
The level of societal awareness of and interest in major threats facing endangered species is a critical determining factor for public support for conservation initiatives and programs, which might in turn impact conservation funding, effectiveness, and policy. Based on a quantitative analysis of internet webpages, we assessed the internet salience of climate change and invasive species as key threats to threatened amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal species in France, Germany and United Kingdom. The analysis indicated a higher prominence of climate change, as well as a higher prominence of the two threats in native species than in species that are inhabiting other countries and regions. Th…
Disentangling homonyms- using artificial neural networks to separate the cream from the crop in large text corpora
2018
Recent years have seen a great influx in scientific publications as well other sources of text corpora that are used for conservation research. This surge holds much promise in promoting great advancements in science, but also presents new challenges. One of the great issues of utilizing this plethora of information is how to efficiently sort through it and retain only its relevant sections. Homonyms - terms that share spelling but differ in meaning - present a unique challenge within this respect as they do not contain inherent information that can aid in their classification across narratives. This issue is of relevance for an array of different conservation culturomics studies, as homony…