Naslov
Historical analysis of amphibian research in Madagascar: trends of increasing research intensity and international collaboration

Autori
Vences, Miguel ; Jovanovic, Olga ; Glaw, Frank

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibians of Madagascar.

Urednik/ci
Andreone, Franco

Izdavač
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali

Grad
Torino

Godina
2008

Raspon stranica
47-58

ISBN
978-88-86041-72-0

Ključne riječi
Amphibians ; Collaboration ; Conservation ; Historical findings ; Literature ; Madagascar.

Sažetak
An analysis of a list of almost 1400 publications focused on Malagasy amphibians and reptiles revealed a clear trend of increasing research intensity, both in herpetological research in general, and in publications dealing with amphibians. Altogether, research on Malagasy amphibians has been less intensive as compared to reptiles, with 396 papers focusing on amphibians, 874 on reptiles, and 113 on both groups. Amphibian research intensity, measured as the number of publications dealing with these organisms (exclusively or together with reptiles) per decade, strongly increased from the 1970s on and reached maximum levels of 175 and (interpolated) 169 for the periods of 1990-1999 and 2000-2009. Most papers dealt with taxonomy, but phylogeny, biogeography and ecology/conservation are becoming increasingly important. The average number of authors per amphibian publications was 1 over most of historical times, and reached 3.3 in the current decade, with a current maximum number of nine authors in one paper. Malagasy authors increasingly participate in the research and publication process, with an average number of Malagasy authors per publication of 0.26 in the current decade. We suggest strengthening the increasingly collaborative nature of research on Malagasy amphibians by approaches that speed up data availability via appropriate cyber- infrastructure, and by further capacity building, in Madagascar, for the field of amphibian biology.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

Napomena
Rad je indexiran u bazi Zoologcal Records

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