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Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities
Amid accelerating threats to species and ecosystems, technology advancements to monitor, protect, and conserve biodiversity have taken on increased importance. While most innovations stem from adaptation of off-the-shelf devices, these tools can fail to meet the specialized needs of conservation and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8938523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35314713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08330-w |
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author | Hahn, Nathan R. Bombaci, Sara P. Wittemyer, George |
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description | Amid accelerating threats to species and ecosystems, technology advancements to monitor, protect, and conserve biodiversity have taken on increased importance. While most innovations stem from adaptation of off-the-shelf devices, these tools can fail to meet the specialized needs of conservation and research or lack the support to scale beyond a single site. Despite calls from the conservation community for its importance, a shift to bottom-up innovation driven by conservation professionals remains limited. We surveyed practitioners, academic researchers, and technologists to understand the factors contributing to or inhibiting engagement in the collaborative process of technology development and adoption for field use and identify emerging technology needs. High cost was the main barrier to technology use across occupations, while development of new technologies faced barriers of cost and partner communication. Automated processing of data streams was the largest emerging need, and respondents focused mainly on applications for individual-level monitoring and automated image processing. Cross-discipline collaborations and expanded funding networks that encourage cyclical development and continued technical support are needed to address current limitations and meet the growing need for conservation technologies. |
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spelling | pubmed-89385232022-03-28 Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities Hahn, Nathan R. Bombaci, Sara P. Wittemyer, George Sci Rep Article Amid accelerating threats to species and ecosystems, technology advancements to monitor, protect, and conserve biodiversity have taken on increased importance. While most innovations stem from adaptation of off-the-shelf devices, these tools can fail to meet the specialized needs of conservation and research or lack the support to scale beyond a single site. Despite calls from the conservation community for its importance, a shift to bottom-up innovation driven by conservation professionals remains limited. We surveyed practitioners, academic researchers, and technologists to understand the factors contributing to or inhibiting engagement in the collaborative process of technology development and adoption for field use and identify emerging technology needs. High cost was the main barrier to technology use across occupations, while development of new technologies faced barriers of cost and partner communication. Automated processing of data streams was the largest emerging need, and respondents focused mainly on applications for individual-level monitoring and automated image processing. Cross-discipline collaborations and expanded funding networks that encourage cyclical development and continued technical support are needed to address current limitations and meet the growing need for conservation technologies. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8938523/ /pubmed/35314713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08330-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 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/) . |
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title | Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities |
title_full | Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities |
title_fullStr | Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities |
title_full_unstemmed | Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities |
title_short | Identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities |
title_sort | identifying conservation technology needs, barriers, and opportunities |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8938523/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35314713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08330-w |
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