A toolkit for open and pluralistic conservation science

• DOI: 10.1111/conl.12919
• Publication Date: 2022-09-30T10:15:45Z
• Authors: Mark Burgman; Rafael Chiaravalloti; Fiona Fidler; Yizhong Huan; Marissa McBride; Alexandru Marcoci; Juliet Norman; Ans Vercammen; Bonnie Wintle; Yurong Yu
• Keywords: Carelessness; Conservation science; Citizen Science

Abstract Conservation science practitioners seek to preempt irreversible impacts on species, ecosystems, and social–ecological systems, requiring efficient timely action even when data understanding are unavailable, incomplete, dated, or biased. These challenges exacerbated by the scientific community's capacity consistently distinguish between reliable unreliable evidence, including recognition of questionable research practices (QRPs, “questionable practices”), which may threaten credibility research, harming trust in well‐designed research. In this paper, we propose a “toolkit” for open pluralistic conservation science, highlighting common sources bias indicating where remedies these problems be found. The toolkit provides an accessible resource anyone conducting, reviewing, using identify false claims misleading evidence that arise unintentionally, through misunderstandings carelessness application methods analyses. We aim influence editorial review hopefully remedy before they published deployed policy practice.