On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example
Long-term approaches are needed to accurately assess the magnitude of biodiversity change. Mining historical documents that include wildlife citations is a promising approach to describe past species distributions and derive conservation baselines. However, historical species records have multiple b...
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crcenteros:10.31219/osf.io/z6be4 2023-05-15T15:50:09+02:00 On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example Clavero, Miguel García-Reyes, Antón Fernández-Gil, Alberto Revilla, Eloy Fernández, Néstor 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/z6be4 unknown Center for Open Science posted-content 2022 crcenteros https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/z6be4 2022-12-20T10:10:09Z Long-term approaches are needed to accurately assess the magnitude of biodiversity change. Mining historical documents that include wildlife citations is a promising approach to describe past species distributions and derive conservation baselines. However, historical species records have multiple biases (just as contemporary ones) and ignoring them can produce distorted views of past species distributions and misinform present-day environmental management. Here, we use recently published historical analyses of wolf (Canis lupus) range in Spain to show that failing to recognise and correct the information gaps and biases of the original data leads to a misrepresentation of the historical range of the species and a downgrading of conservation targets. We thus call for the implementation of modelling approaches, ideally using absences or informed pseudo-absences together with species records, to estimate historical species distributions. Other/Unknown Material Canis lupus COS Center for Open Science (via Crossref) |
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Long-term approaches are needed to accurately assess the magnitude of biodiversity change. Mining historical documents that include wildlife citations is a promising approach to describe past species distributions and derive conservation baselines. However, historical species records have multiple biases (just as contemporary ones) and ignoring them can produce distorted views of past species distributions and misinform present-day environmental management. Here, we use recently published historical analyses of wolf (Canis lupus) range in Spain to show that failing to recognise and correct the information gaps and biases of the original data leads to a misrepresentation of the historical range of the species and a downgrading of conservation targets. We thus call for the implementation of modelling approaches, ideally using absences or informed pseudo-absences together with species records, to estimate historical species distributions. |
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Clavero, Miguel García-Reyes, Antón Fernández-Gil, Alberto Revilla, Eloy Fernández, Néstor |
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Clavero, Miguel García-Reyes, Antón Fernández-Gil, Alberto Revilla, Eloy Fernández, Néstor On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example |
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Clavero, Miguel García-Reyes, Antón Fernández-Gil, Alberto Revilla, Eloy Fernández, Néstor |
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On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example |
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On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example |
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On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example |
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On the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in Spain as an example |
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on the misuse of historical data to set conservation baselines: wolves in spain as an example |
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