Is limnology becoming increasingly abiotic, riverine, and global?
| Autor: | Adam J. Heathcote, Christopher T. Filstrup, Philippe Maisonneuve, Jean-François Lapierre |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Abiotic component 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Limnology GC1-1581 Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences 13. Climate action Environmental science 14. Life underwater 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 204-211 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2378-2242 |
| Popis: | Scientists often debate on the evolving state of their fields and future research directions, but empirical studies on research trends are rare and this limits our capacity to disentangle perceptions from facts within the mass of available data. We used ecological and paleolimnological approaches to assess how the “community” of words most commonly used in limnological studies presented at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meetings and published in Web of Science have evolved over the last decades. We found that the field of limnology has become increasingly focused on global abiotic research themes, especially in rivers, while there was a decrease in the proportion of organismal studies. We hypothesize that this results from both major influential publications highlighting the importance of framing limnology in a global context and the methodological limitations of organismal studies that prevent data from scaling up as quickly as their abiotic counterparts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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