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The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species
Environmental education seeks to foster an appreciation for nature and the impact of humans on it while introducing citizens to scientific thinking. Biological invasions affect different aspects of life on earth and mandate urgent management actions. Education and public awareness are strongly recom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8563966/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34728666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00683-y |
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author | Sosa, Alejandro J. Jiménez, Nadia L. Faltlhauser, Ana C. Righetti, Tomás Mc Kay, Fernando Bruzzone, Octavio A. Stiers, Iris Fernández Souto, Adriana |
author_facet | Sosa, Alejandro J. Jiménez, Nadia L. Faltlhauser, Ana C. Righetti, Tomás Mc Kay, Fernando Bruzzone, Octavio A. Stiers, Iris Fernández Souto, Adriana |
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description | Environmental education seeks to foster an appreciation for nature and the impact of humans on it while introducing citizens to scientific thinking. Biological invasions affect different aspects of life on earth and mandate urgent management actions. Education and public awareness are strongly recommended for successful prevention and management of invasive alien species (IAS). This work presents a study on knowledge and perception of the educational community of Argentina about native species and IAS. We designed an on-line semi-structured questionnaire to examine perception of the environment, recognition of native species and IAS and awareness about biological invasions. Educators recognised an important number of biotic components, mostly represented by trees, birds and mammals. Recognition of native species and IAS, and awareness of biological invasions were different between NST (Natural Science Teachers) and non-NST. Respondents had different performances when they were exposed to recognising native species though written names or photographs. Out of 532 respondents, 56% knew what biological invasions are, 21% answered “Maybe” and 23% had never heard about them. We need to foster capacity-building and encourage a two-way communication between educators and scientists, formally and informally, to engage the participation of the whole society in recognition, prevention and management of IAS. |
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spelling | pubmed-85639662021-11-04 The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species Sosa, Alejandro J. Jiménez, Nadia L. Faltlhauser, Ana C. Righetti, Tomás Mc Kay, Fernando Bruzzone, Octavio A. Stiers, Iris Fernández Souto, Adriana Sci Rep Article Environmental education seeks to foster an appreciation for nature and the impact of humans on it while introducing citizens to scientific thinking. Biological invasions affect different aspects of life on earth and mandate urgent management actions. Education and public awareness are strongly recommended for successful prevention and management of invasive alien species (IAS). This work presents a study on knowledge and perception of the educational community of Argentina about native species and IAS. We designed an on-line semi-structured questionnaire to examine perception of the environment, recognition of native species and IAS and awareness about biological invasions. Educators recognised an important number of biotic components, mostly represented by trees, birds and mammals. Recognition of native species and IAS, and awareness of biological invasions were different between NST (Natural Science Teachers) and non-NST. Respondents had different performances when they were exposed to recognising native species though written names or photographs. Out of 532 respondents, 56% knew what biological invasions are, 21% answered “Maybe” and 23% had never heard about them. We need to foster capacity-building and encourage a two-way communication between educators and scientists, formally and informally, to engage the participation of the whole society in recognition, prevention and management of IAS. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8563966/ /pubmed/34728666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00683-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Sosa, Alejandro J. Jiménez, Nadia L. Faltlhauser, Ana C. Righetti, Tomás Mc Kay, Fernando Bruzzone, Octavio A. Stiers, Iris Fernández Souto, Adriana The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
title | The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
title_full | The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
title_fullStr | The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
title_full_unstemmed | The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
title_short | The educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
title_sort | educational community and its knowledge and perceptions of native and invasive alien species |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8563966/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34728666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00683-y |
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