Assessing global popularity and threats to Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas using social media data

Avitourism and Australian Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas

Formal protected areas will not provide adequate protection to conserve all biodiversity, and are not always designated using systematic or strategic criteria. Using a systematic process, the Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) network was designed to highlight areas of conservation significance for birds (i.e. IBA trigger species), and more recently general biodiversity. Land use activi...

Global changes, cyanobacterial blooms and threats to aquatic biodiversity.

Assessing The Potential Of Social Media To Reflect Global Tourism

Increasingly, people use Social Media to relate their experiences and thoughts regarding travel and tourism. Others use this information to plan better and make better decisions in the context of travel and tourism. Several studies have investigated trust in, contribution to, and consumption of tourismrelated Social Media and its impact on people’s behavior and decisions. However, it is largely...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Familiarity breeds content: assessing bird species popularity with culturomics

Understanding public perceptions of biodiversity is essential to ensure continued support for conservation efforts. Despite this, insights remain scarce at broader spatial scales, mostly due to a lack of adequate methods for their assessment. The emergence of new technologies with global reach and high levels of participation provide exciting new opportunities to study the public visibility of ...