Non-English languages enrich scientific knowledge: The example of economic costs of biological invasions
2021
Angulo, Elena | Diagne, Christophe | Ballesteros-Mejia, Liliana | Adamjy, Tasnime | Ahmed, Danish, A. | Akulov, Evgeny | Banerjee, Achyut, K. | Capinha, César | Dia, Cheikh, A.K.M. | Dobigny, Gauthier | Duboscq-Carra, Virginia, G. | Golivets, Marina | Haubrock, Phillip, J. | Heringer, Gustavo | Kirichenko, Natalia | Kourantidou, Melina | Liu, Chunlong | Nuñez, Martin, A. | Renault, D | Roiz, David, A | Taheri, Ahmed | Verbrugge, Laura, N.H. | Watari, Yuya | Xiong, Wen | Courchamp, Franck | Ecologie, Société et Evolution (ex-Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution) (ESE) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) | Federal Research Center Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center (FRC) ; Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) | All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine ; Partenaires INRAE | Sun Yat-sen University [Guangzhou] (SYSU) | Centro de Estudos Geográficos (CEG) ; Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon = Université de Lisbonne [Lisboa] (ULISBOA) | Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar [Sénégal] (UCAD) | Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente [Bariloche] (INIBIOMA-CONICET) ; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional del Comahue [Neuquén] (UNCOMA) | Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | Department of Community Ecology ; Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum [Frankfurt] ; Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung ; Leibniz Association = Leibniz Gemeinschaft = Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (LG / WGL)-Leibniz Association = Leibniz Gemeinschaft = Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (LG / WGL) | Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters [University of South Bohemia] ; University of South Bohemia [České Budějovice, Czechia] | South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses [University of South Bohemia] (CENAKVA) ; Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters [University of South Bohemia] ; University of South Bohemia [České Budějovice, Czechia]-University of South Bohemia [České Budějovice, Czechia] | Universidade Federal de Lavras = Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) | V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest ; Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) | Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS» | Siberian Federal University (SibFU) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) | University of Southern Denmark = Syddansk Universitet (SDU) | Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) | Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters [Greece] (IMBRIW-HCMR) ; Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) | Freie Universität Berlin = Free University of Berlin | Institute of Biology, Free University of Berlin | Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) | Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) | Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] (ECOBIO) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut Ecologie et Environnement - CNRS Ecologie et Environnement (INEE-CNRS) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Institut universitaire de France (IUF) ; Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.) | Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC) ; Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie]) | Université Chouaib Doukkali (UCD) | Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry [Helsinki] ; Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki | Department of Forest Sciences [Helsinki] ; Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry [Helsinki] ; Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki | Aalto University | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) | Guangdong Ocean University | College of Fisheries, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China | This work was supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR-14-CE02-0021) and the BNP-Paribas Foundation Climate Initiative for the InvaCost project that allowed the construction of the InvaCost database; the AXA Research Fund Chair of Invasion Biology of University Paris Saclay (EA and LBM contracts) and BiodivERsA and Belmont-Forum call 2018 on biodiversity scenarios – “Alien Scenarios” (the workshop where this work was initiated, and MG and CD contracts, BMBF/PT DLR 01LC1807C); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (Capes) (Finance code 001, GH contract); Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant number 19-04-01028-a); InEE-CNRS who supports the network GdR 3647 ‘Invasions Biologiques’, the French Polar Institute Paul-Emile Victor (Project IPEV 136 ‘Subanteco’), and the national nature reserve of the French southern lands (RN-TAF); Portuguese National Funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (grant numbers CEECIND/02037/2017; UIDB/00295/2020 and UIDP/00295/2020); Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) (grant number PR1914SM-01) and the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) internal seed fund (grant number 187092). | ANR-14-CE02-0021,InvaCosts,Insectes envahissants et leurs couts pour la biodiversité, l'économie et la santé humaine(2014)
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اظهر المزيد [+] اقل [-]إنجليزي. Highlights• We compiled global economic cost data of invasive species from non-English sources.• A large number of costs was added for new invasive species and new countries.• As a result, global cost estimates of invasions increased by 16.6% (US$ 214 billion).• Multi-language collaborations are necessary to enrich scientific knowledge.• The use of non-English sources enhances data completeness and reduces knowledge gaps.AbstractWe contend that the exclusive focus on the English language in scientific research might hinder effective communication between scientists and practitioners or policy makers whose mother tongue is non-English. This barrier in scientific knowledge and data transfer likely leads to significant knowledge gaps and may create biases when providing global patterns in many fields of science. To demonstrate this, we compiled data on the global economic costs of invasive alien species reported in 15 non-English languages. We compared it with equivalent data from English documents (i.e., the InvaCost database, the most up-to-date repository of invasion costs globally). The comparison of both databases (~7500 entries in total) revealed that non-English sources: (i) capture a greater amount of data than English sources alone (2500 vs. 2396 cost entries respectively); (ii) add 249 invasive species and 15 countries to those reported by English literature, and (iii) increase the global cost estimate of invasions by 16.6% (i.e., US$ 214 billion added to 1.288 trillion estimated from the English database). Additionally, 2712 cost entries — not directly comparable to the English database — were directly obtained from practitioners, revealing the value of communication between scientists and practitioners. Moreover, we demonstrated how gaps caused by overlooking non-English data resulted in significant biases in the distribution of costs across space, taxonomic groups, types of cost, and impacted sectors. Specifically, costs from Europe, at the local scale, and particularly pertaining to management, were largely under-represented in the English database. Thus, combining scientific data from English and non-English sources proves fundamental and enhances data completeness. Considering non-English sources helps alleviate biases in understanding invasion costs at a global scale. Finally, it also holds strong potential for improving management performance, coordination among experts (scientists and practitioners), and collaborative actions across countries. Note: non-English versions of the abstract and figures are provided in Appendix S5 in 12 languages.
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