Using Wikipedia page views to explore the cultural importance of global reptiles

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• 作者：Uri Roll^a ; ^b ; ¹ ; ^{uri.roll@zoo.ox.ac.uk} ; John C. Mittermeier^b ; ¹ ; Gonzalo I. Diaz^c ; ¹ ; Maria Novosolov^d ; Anat Feldman^d ; Yuval Itescu^d ; Shai Meiri^d ; Richard Grenyer^b
• 关键词：Big data ; Conservation ; Culture ; Endangered ; Language ; Flagship species
• 刊名：Biological Conservation
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：204
• 期：part_PA
• 页码：42-50
• 全文大小：1269 K
• 卷排序：204

文摘

We present a global map of 55.5 million human-nature interactions. Wikipedia page views illuminate global scale patterns of human interest in nature. Different Wikipedia language editions reflect interests in their local fauna. Being large, venomous, threatened and described earlier makes a reptile interesting. Big-data approaches hold much promise for elucidating human-nature relationships.