TY - JOUR
T1 - Expanding conservation culturomics and iEcology from terrestrial to aquatic realms
AU - Jarić, Ivan
AU - Roll, Uri
AU - Arlinghaus, Robert
AU - Belmaker, Jonathan
AU - Chen, Yan
AU - China, Victor
AU - Douda, Karel
AU - Essl, Franz
AU - Jähnig, Sonja C.
AU - Jeschke, Jonathan M.
AU - Kalinkat, Gregor
AU - Kalous, Lukáš
AU - Ladle, Richard
AU - Lennox, Robert J.
AU - Rosa, Rui
AU - Sbragaglia, Valerio
AU - Sherren, Kate
AU - Šmejkal, Marek
AU - Soriano-Redondo, Andrea
AU - Souza, Allan T.
AU - Wolter, Christian
AU - Correia, Ricardo A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/29
Y1 - 2020/10/29
N2 - The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities. Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the analysis of online data resources, can provide novel scientific insights and inform conservation and management efforts. To date, culturomics and iEcology have been applied primarily in the terrestrial realm. Here, we advocate for expanding such applications to the aquatic realm by providing a brief overview of these new approaches and outlining key areas in which culturomics and iEcology are likely to have the highest impact, including the management of protected areas; fisheries; flagship species identification; detection and distribution of threatened, rare, and alien species; assessment of ecosystem status and anthropogenic impacts; and social impact assessment. When deployed in the right context with awareness of potential biases, culturomics and iEcology are ripe for rapid development as low-cost research approaches based on data available from digital sources, with increasingly diverse applications for aquatic ecosystems.
AB - The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities. Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the analysis of online data resources, can provide novel scientific insights and inform conservation and management efforts. To date, culturomics and iEcology have been applied primarily in the terrestrial realm. Here, we advocate for expanding such applications to the aquatic realm by providing a brief overview of these new approaches and outlining key areas in which culturomics and iEcology are likely to have the highest impact, including the management of protected areas; fisheries; flagship species identification; detection and distribution of threatened, rare, and alien species; assessment of ecosystem status and anthropogenic impacts; and social impact assessment. When deployed in the right context with awareness of potential biases, culturomics and iEcology are ripe for rapid development as low-cost research approaches based on data available from digital sources, with increasingly diverse applications for aquatic ecosystems.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000935
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000935
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C2 - 33119582
AN - SCOPUS:85095386857
SN - 1544-9173
VL - 18
JO - PLoS Biology
JF - PLoS Biology
IS - 10
M1 - e3000935
ER -