Is limnology becoming increasingly abiotic, riverine, and global?

Autor: Jean‐François Lapierre, Adam J. Heathcote, Philippe Maisonneuve, Christopher T. Filstrup
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 204-211 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2378-2242
DOI: 10.1002/lol2.10131
Popis: Abstract 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.
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