Scientific papers dedicated to conservation culturomics

2019

• Cooper, M. W., E. Di Minin, A. Hausmann, S. Qin, A. J. Schwartz, and R. A. Correia. 2019. Developing a global indicator for Aichi Target 1 by merging online data sources to measure biodiversity awareness and engagement. Biological Conservation 230:29-36.
• Correia RA, Di Minin E, Jarić I, Jepson P, Ladle R, Mittermeier J, Roll U, Soriano-Redondo A, Veríssimo D. 2019. Inferring public interest from search engine data requires caution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17:254-255.
• De Frenne P, Van Langenhove L, Van Driessche A, Bertrand C, Verheyen K, Vangansbeke P. 2018. Using archived television video footage to quantify phenology responses to climate change. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9:1874-1882.
• Do, Y. 2019. Valuating aesthetic benefits of cultural ecosystem services using conservation culturomics. Ecosystem Services 36:100894.
• Fernández-Bellon D, Kane A. Natural history films raise species awareness—A big data approach. Conservation Letters e12678
• Francis FT, et al. 2019. Shifting headlines? Size trends of newsworthy fishes. PeerJ 7:e6395.
• Jarić, I., R. A. Correia, D. L. Roberts, J. Gessner, Y. Meinard, and F. Courchamp. 2019. On the overlap between scientific and societal taxonomic attentions - Insights for conservation. Science of the Total Environment 648:772-778.
• Jiménez-Alvarado D, Sarmiento-Lezcano A, Guerra-Marrero A, Tuya F, Santana Del Pino Á, Sealey MJ, Castro JJ. Historical photographs of captures of recreational fishers indicate overexploitation of nearshore resources at an oceanic island. Journal of Fish Biology.
• Ladle RJ, Jepson P, Correia RA, Malhado ACM. A culturomics approach to quantifying the salience of species on the global internet. People and Nature
• Lennox RJ, Veríssimo D, Twardek WM, Davis CR, Jarić I. Sentiment analysis as a measure of conservation culture in scientific literature. Conservation Biology
• Mittermeier, J. C., U. Roll, T. J. Matthews, T.J, R. Grenyer. 2019. A season for all things: phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation. PLoS biology 17:e3000146.
• Rafiq K, Bryce CM, Rich LN, Coco C, Miller DAW, Meloro C, Wich SA, McNutt JW, Hayward MW. 2019. Tourist photographs as a scalable framework for wildlife monitoring in protected areas. Current Biology 29:R681-R682.
• Retka, J., Jepson, P., Ladle, R.J., Malhado, A.C.M., Vieira, F.A.S., Normande, I.C., Souza, C.N., Bragagnolo, C., Correia, R.A., 2019. Assessing cultural ecosystem services of a large marine protected area through social media photographs. Ocean & Coastal Management 176: 40-48.
• Schuetz J. G. and A. Johnston Characterizing the cultural niches of North American birds. PNAS 116: 10868-10873.
• Spalding M, Parrett CL. 2019. Global patterns in mangrove recreation and tourism. Marine Policy, 103540.
• Toivonen, T., V. Heikinheimo, C. Fink, A. Hausmann, T. Hiippala, O. Järv, H. Tenkanen, and E. Di Minin. 2019. Social media data for conservation science: A methodological overview. Biological Conservation 233:298-315.
• Troumbis, A.Y., 2019. The time and timing components of conservation culturomics cycles and scenarios of public interest in the Google era. Biodiversity and Conservation 28, 1717-1727.

 
2018

• Archibald, C. L., and N. Butt. 2018. Using Google search data to inform global climate change adaptation policy. Climatic Change 150:447-456.
• Burivalova, Z., R. A. Butler, and D. S. Wilcove. 2018. Analyzing Google search data to debunk myths about the public's interest in conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16:509-514
• Chamberlain J. 2018. Chapter Five - Using Social Media for Biomonitoring: How Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Other Social Networking Platforms Can Provide Large-Scale Biodiversity Data. Pages 133-168 in Bohan DA, Dumbrell AJ, Woodward G, and Jackson M, editors. Advances in Ecological Research. Academic Press.
• Correia, R. A., Z. C. Correia, A. C. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. Pivotal 20th century contributions to the development of the Anthropocene concept: overview and implications. Current Science 115:1871.
• Correia, R. A., I. Jarić, P. Jepson, A. C. Malhado, J. A. Alves, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. Nomenclature instability in species culturomic assessments: Why synonyms matter. Ecological Indicators 90:74-78.
• Courchamp, F., I. Jaric, C. Albert, Y. Meinard, W. J. Ripple, and G. Chapron. 2018. The paradoxical extinction of the most charismatic animals. PLoS Biology 16:e2003997.
• Di Minin, E., C. Fink, T. Hiippala, and H. Tenkanen. 2018. A framework for investigating illegal wildlife trade on social media with machine learning. Conservation Biology 33:210-213.
• Di Minin, E., C. Fink, H. Tenkanen, and T. Hiippala. 2018. Machine learning for tracking illegal wildlife trade on social media. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:406-407.
• Giovos I, et al. 2018. Identifying recreational fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea through social media. Fisheries Management and Ecology 25:287-295.
• Hale, B.W., 2018. Mapping Potential Environmental Impacts from Tourists Using Data from Social Media: A Case Study in the Westfjords of Iceland. Environmental Management 62, 446-457.
• Hausmann, A., T. Toivonen, R. Slotow, H. Tenkanen, A. Moilanen, V. Heikinheimo, and E. Di Minin. 2018. Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists' Preferences for Nature-Based Experiences in Protected Areas. Conservation Letters 11:e12343.
• Hiippala, T., A. Hausmann, H. Tenkanen, and T. Toivonen. 2018. Exploring the linguistic landscape of geotagged social media content in urban environments. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities fqy049.
• Legagneux, P., N. Casajus, K. Cazelles, C. Chevallier, M. Chevrinais, L. Guéry, C. Jacquet, M. Jaffré, M.-J. Naud, F. Noisette, P. Ropars, S. Vissault, P. Archambault, J. Bêty, D. Berteaux, and D. Gravel. 2018. Our House Is Burning: Discrepancy in Climate Change vs. Biodiversity Coverage in the Media as Compared to Scientific Literature. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:175.
• Mikula P, Hadrava J, Albrecht T, Tryjanowski P. 2018. Large-scale assessment of commensalistic-mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet photos. PeerJ 6:e4520.
• Monkman, G. G., M. J. Kaiser, and K. Hyder. 2018. Text and data mining of social media to map wildlife recreation activity. Biological Conservation 228:89-99.
• Roll, U., R. A. Correia, and O. Berger-Tal. 2018. Using machine learning to disentangle homonyms in large text corpora. Conservation Biology 32:716-724.
• Veríssimo, D., A. Bianchessi, A. Arrivillaga, F. C. Cadiz, R. Mancao, and K. Green. 2018. Does it work for biodiversity? Experiences and challenges in the evaluation of social marketing campaigns. Social Marketing Quarterly 24:18-34.
• Vieira, F. A., C. Bragagnolo, R. A. Correia, A. C. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2018. A salience index for integrating multiple user perspectives in cultural ecosystem service assessments. Ecosystem Services 32:182-192.
• Wäldchen J, Rzanny M, Seeland M, Mäder P. 2018. Automated plant species identification—Trends and future directions. PLOS Computational Biology 14:e1005993.

 
2017

• Correia, R. A., P. Jepson, A. C. M. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2017. Culturomic assessment of Brazilian protected areas: Exploring a novel index of protected area visibility. Ecological Indicators 85:165-171.
• Correia, R. A., P. Jepson, A. C. M. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2017. Internet scientific name frequency as an indicator of cultural salience of biodiversity. Ecological Indicators 78:549-555.
• Hausmann, A., T. Toivonen, V. Heikinheimo, H. Tenkanen, R. Slotow, and E. Di Minin. 2017. Social media reveal that charismatic species are not the main attractor of ecotourists to sub-Saharan protected areas. Scientific Reports 7:763.
• Heikinheimo, V., E. D. Minin, H. Tenkanen, A. Hausmann, J. Erkkonen, and T. Toivonen. 2017. User-generated geographic information for visitor monitoring in a national park: A comparison of social media data and visitor survey. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 6:85.
• Kusmanoff, A. M., F. Fidler, A. Gordon, and S. A. Bekessy. 2017. Decline of 'biodiversity' in conservation policy discourse in Australia. Environmental Science & Policy 77:160-165.
• Ladle, R. J., P. Jepson, R. A. Correia, and A. C. Malhado. 2017. The power and the promise of culturomics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15:290-291.
• Megias, D. A., S. C. Anderson, R. J. Smith, and D. Veríssimo. 2017. Investigating the impact of media on demand for wildlife: A case study of Harry Potter and the UK trade in owls. PLoS ONE 12:e0182368.
• Sherren K, Parkins JR, Smit M, Holmlund M, Chen Y. 2017. Digital archives, big data and image-based culturomics for social impact assessment: Opportunities and challenges. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 67:23-30.
  
• Soriano-Redondo A, Bearhop S, Lock L, Votier SC, Hilton GM. 2017. Internet-based monitoring of public perception of conservation. Biological Conservation 206:304-309.
  
• Tenkanen, H., E. Di Minin, V. Heikinheimo, A. Hausmann, M. Herbst, L. Kajala, and T. Toivonen. 2017. Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas. Scientific Reports 7:17615.
• Troumbis, A. Y. 2017. Declining Google Trends of public interest in biodiversity: semantics, statistics or traceability of changing priorities? Biodiversity and Conservation 26:1495-1505.
• Veríssimo, D., G. Vaughan, M. Ridout, C. Waterman, D. MacMillan, and R. J. Smith. 2017. Increased conservation marketing effort has major fundraising benefits for even the least popular species. Biological Conservation 211, Part A:95-101.

 
2016

• Correia, R. A., P. R. Jepson, A. C. M. Malhado, and R. J. Ladle. 2016. Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics. PeerJ 4:e1728.
• Hentati-Sundberg J, Olsson O. 2016. Amateur photographs reveal population history of a colonial seabird. Current Biology 26:R226-R228.
• Jarić, I., F. Courchamp, J. Gessner, and D. L. Roberts. 2016. Data mining in conservation research using Latin and vernacular species names. PeerJ 4:e2202.
• Ladle, R. J., R. A. Correia, Y. Do, G.-J. Joo, A. Malhado, R. Proulx, J.-M. Roberge, and P. Jepson. 2016. Conservation culturomics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14:269-275.
• Leighton GRM, Hugo PS, Roulin A, Amar A. 2016. Just Google it: assessing the use of Google Images to describe geographical variation in visible traits of organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7:1060-1070.
• Nghiem, L. T. P., S. K. Papworth, F. K. S. Lim, and L. R. Carrasco. 2016. Analysis of the Capacity of Google Trends to Measure Interest in Conservation Topics and the Role of Online News. PLoS ONE 11:e0152802.
• Nunez-Mir, G. C., B. V. Iannone, B. C. Pijanowski, N. Kong, and S. Fei. 2016. Automated content analysis: addressing the big literature challenge in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7:1262-1272.
• Roll, U., J. C. Mittermeier, G. I. Diaz, M. Novosolov, A. Feldman, Y. Itescu, S. Meiri, and R. Grenyer. 2016. Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles. Biological Conservation 204, Part A:42-50.

 
2015

• Di Minin, E., H. Tenkanen, and T. Toivonen. 2015. Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science. Frontiers in Environmental Science 3.
• Haas AF, et al. 2015. Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics. PeerJ 3:e1390.
• Jepson, P., and R. J. Ladle. 2015. Nature apps: Waiting for the revolution. Ambio 44:827-832.
• Levin N, Kark S, Crandall D. 2015. Where have all the people gone? Enhancing global conservation using night lights and social media. Ecological Applications 25:2153-2167.
• Lineman, M., Y. Do, J. Y. Kim, and G.-J. Joo. 2015. Talking about Climate Change and Global Warming. PLoS ONE 10:e0138996.
• Papworth, S. K., T. P. L. Nghiem, D. Chimalakonda, M. R. C. Posa, L. S. Wijedasa, D. Bickford, and L. R. Carrasco. 2015. Quantifying the role of online news in linking conservation research to Facebook and Twitter. Conservation Biology 29:825-833.

 
2014

• Proulx, R., P. Massicotte, and M. Pepino. 2014. Googling Trends in Conservation Biology. Conservation Biology 28:44-51.
• Veríssimo, D., D. C. MacMillan, R. J. Smith, J. Crees, and Z. G. Davies. 2014. Has climate change taken prominence over biodiversity conservation? Bioscience 64:625-629.