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DOI	10.1038/s41559-021-01608-8
	Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity
	Raja N.B.; Dunne E.M.; Matiwane A.; Khan T.M.; N?tscher P.S.; Ghilardi A.M.; Chattopadhyay D.
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2397-334X
起始页码	145
结束页码	154
卷号	6 期号:2
英文摘要	Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also the historical and current collation of fossil data. We demonstrate how the legacy of colonialism and socioeconomic factors, such as wealth, education and political stability, impact the global distribution of fossil data over the past 30 years. We find that a global power imbalance persists in palaeontology, with researchers in high- or upper-middle-income countries holding a monopoly over palaeontological knowledge production by contributing to 97% of fossil data. As a result, some countries or regions tend to be better sampled than others, ultimately leading to heterogeneous spatial sampling across the globe. This illustrates how efforts to mitigate sampling biases to obtain a truly representative view of past biodiversity are not disconnected from the aim of diversifying and decolonizing our discipline. ? 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	biodiversity; fossil; paleontology; selection bias; Biodiversity; Fossils; Paleontology; Selection Bias
来源期刊	Nature Ecology & Evolution
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/257148
作者单位	GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom; Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa; Department of Earth Sciences, Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Department of Geology, RN, Natal, Brazil; IISER Pune, Department of Earth and Climate Science, Pune, India; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Raja N.B.,Dunne E.M.,Matiwane A.,et al. Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity[J],2022,6(2).
APA	Raja N.B..,Dunne E.M..,Matiwane A..,Khan T.M..,N?tscher P.S..,...&Chattopadhyay D..(2022).Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity.Nature Ecology & Evolution,6(2).
MLA	Raja N.B.,et al."Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity".Nature Ecology & Evolution 6.2(2022).