Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Ecological Networks in Nature Conservation from 1990 to 2020

Lu, Zhonggui; Li, Wei; Wang, Yidi; Zhou, Siyang

doi:10.3390/su14094925

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“…Characteristics of the publications include major journals and their Impact Factor (IF), research institutions, and subject categories. The IF is usually used to measure the effectiveness of the journal and the journals with high IFs have contributed more to the development of the research eld (Lu et al 2022). Analysis of research institutions shows the most productive universities or organizations, and the main research contents are illustrated by statistics of subject categories.…”

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Global Trends and Prospects of Community Participation in Marine Protected Areas Based on Bibliometric Analysis

Jiang

Liu

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Marine protected area (MPA) is an effective tool for preserving marine organisms and ecosystems under the background of climate change and intense human activities. As a helpful management approach in MPAs, community participation has received substantial attention from researchers worldwide. To identify the research status in the field of community participation in MPAs, 391 papers obtained from the Web of Science were reviewed with bibliometric methods and VOSviewer. The results showed that the number of publications had kept growing from 1994 to 2022. The USA having the most number of publications, followed by Australia. Environmental science was identified as the major thematic area. The studies concentrated on community-based marine resources management, the participation mode of communities and participatory planning and monitoring. Besides, we summarized the experience and lessons of community participation to illustrate the role of community involvement in the construction and management of MPAs. Finally, the outlook for future research was presented based on the analysis above. We recommend promoting cross-disciplinary cooperation and combining quantitative and qualitative methods to support this research. Meanwhile, it was critical to study further the specific path of community participation and fully utilize the local knowledge to supplement scientific data. The current study provided an overview of the characteristics of publications, research trends and primary research methods in the study of community participation in MPAs. The results will help to explore the ways to mitigate conflicts between MPAs and communities. We hope that our study could promote their coordinated and sustainable development and contribute to marine conservation and human well-being.

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confidence: 99%

Global Trends and Prospects of Community Participation in Marine Protected Areas Based on Bibliometric Analysis

Jiang

Liu

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The close collaboration between authors can be determined by the density of the lines. Dr. Harald Bugmann (30) is the author with the most articles in the searched database, indicating that he is the most active scholar in the field of forest gaps, followed by Dr. Shin-Ichi Yamamoto (24) and Dr. Christian Messier (21). Moreover, the color of the nodal circles also shows that Dr. Bugmann is the author with many publications in recent years.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Node types in CiteSpace were set to "author", "institution", "country", "cited journal", "keyword" and "cited reference". The thickness of nodes linked to each other indicates the strength of co-occurrence, collaboration or co-citation [24]. Different colors and sizes of tree rings represent different years and numbers of publications (citations).…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Forest Gap Research during 1980–2021

Xie

Zhang

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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(1) Background: Forest gaps play an important role in promoting forest regeneration and facilitating the forest growth cycle. Since the 1980s, forest gaps have been widely studied by forestry scientists. The purpose of this study was to review the global literature from 1980 to 2021, based on the scientific database Web of Science Core Collection, and to summarize the research hotspots and the trends of the forest gaps. (2) Method: A bibliometric analysis was performed using the visual analytic software CiteSpace to quantify the description of annual publications, collaboration analysis of authors, institutions and countries, co-citation analysis of cited journals, cited authors, and cited references. The keyword co-occurrence, burst, and time zone were also analyzed by the software. (3) Results: The results show that the volume of annual publications is increasing. Dr. Harald Bugmann is the author with the most published works. The most active institution is the American Forest Service. The United States, Canada, and China are the three most productive countries. “Ecology” is the most cited journal. The results indicate that the hotspot in the forest gap research has shifted, and the effects of forest environmental changes caused by forest gaps under climate change have received more attention from scientists. In the future, more attention may be paid to the role of forest gaps on near-natural forest management patterns, the effect of forest gaps on forest sustainable development, and the way to study forest gaps using lidar technology. (4) Conclusion: Our results can help to understand emerging trends in forest gap research to inform forest ecology and management.

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“…The ecological security pattern is the potential spatial pattern of the ecosystem in the landscape, which consists of local ecological key areas and their connections [7,8]. Similar concepts include green infrastructure (GI) and ecological networks (ENs), and some researchers use ENs and GI as the research framework, focusing on the protection of organisms and the layout of urban infrastructure [9][10][11][12]. For example, the method of establishing ENs has been proposed by Hofman et al EN provides an effective reference for biodiversity conservation [13,14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These patches exhibit high connectivity and hold great significance for the overall ecological well-being of the entire region [20]. Ecological sources can be extracted by land use/cover [21], ecosystem service functions [22][23][24][25][26][27], landscape connectivity [10,28], and nature reserves [29]. The majority of earlier studies were based on nature reserves and ecosystem services, while few investigations determined ecological sources based on both ecosystem services and connectivity.…”

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Construction of an Ecological Security Pattern in Yangtze River Delta Based on Circuit Theory

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Ecological corridors can improve the connectivity between different habitat regions, ultimately halting the loss of biodiversity and habitat fragmentation. Building ecological corridors is a crucial step in protecting biodiversity. Ecological corridors had previously been built primarily on nature reserves, ignoring ecosystem services. In this study, a novel approach to building ecological corridors is put forth that takes into account a variety of ecosystem services, morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA), and connectivity methodologies to identify significant ecological sources. Ecological corridors and significant strategic nodes are created based on the minimum cumulative resistance model (MCR) and circuit theory in order to construct the Yangtze River Delta’s ecological security pattern. The research found that: (1) the identified ecological sources are 90,821.84 km2, and the total length of ecological corridors is 4704.03 km. (2) In total, 141 ecological restoration areas are identified, with a total area of 2302.77 km2; 151 ecological protection areas are identified, with a total area of 5303.43 km2. This study can provide valuable insights into the establishment of ecological patterns and the construction of priority restoration and protection areas in the ecological restoration of the Yangtze River Delta.

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Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research on Ecological Networks in Nature Conservation from 1990 to 2020

Cited by 12 publications

References 114 publications

Global Trends and Prospects of Community Participation in Marine Protected Areas Based on Bibliometric Analysis

Global Trends and Prospects of Community Participation in Marine Protected Areas Based on Bibliometric Analysis

A Bibliometric Analysis of Forest Gap Research during 1980–2021

Construction of an Ecological Security Pattern in Yangtze River Delta Based on Circuit Theory

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