Historical data: Hidden in the past

Kwok, Roberta

doi:10.1038/nj7672-419

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“…There are many challenges associated with analysing historical data, as identified in this study and elsewhere (e.g. Kwok, ; McClenachan et al, ), but the effort is worthwhile. The Southeast Australian region provides patchy and unbalanced data that are likely to be representative of available historical datasets in data‐poor regions, and the approach used in this study may provide the impetus for the seeking and analysis of other overlooked historical datasets around the world.…”

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“…In addition, this study identifies families, such as gurnards, that are not currently assessed because of relatively low commercial value (André et al, 2015;Rowling, Hegarty & Ives, 2010;Tuck, 2011), but that may con- There are many challenges associated with analysing historical data, as identified in this study and elsewhere (e.g. Kwok, 2017;McClenachan et al, 2012), but the effort is worthwhile. The Southeast…”

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Identifying historical baseline at the onset of exploitation to improve understanding of fishing impacts

Novaglio

Smith

Frusher

et al. 2020

Aquatic Conservation

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Marine communities have long been impacted by human activities, but the quantification of human‐driven changes often relies on recent data. This is because historical data on fish populations are lacking and are challenging to include in contemporary stock and ecological assessments. As a result, the impacts of early fishing pressure on marine communities are generally poorly documented worldwide. Marine communities of Southeast Australia have a relatively short history of exploitation compared with other temperate systems and were sampled before and after the onset of commercial fishing. As such, they provide a rare opportunity to identify historical baselines and to understand ecological changes after the onset of commercial exploitation. This study compares survey data collected around Tasmania, Southeast Australia, in 1909–1910 with data from the 1980s. The period considered precedes the establishment of a trawl fishery in Southeast Australia in 1915, of other important commercial fisheries in Tasmania, and of a fisheries data collection programme in 1984. Nominal catch rates are used to examine changes across all families of demersal fish recorded in catches and generalized linear models are used to estimate and compare standardized indices of abundance between the 1909–1910 and 1980s data for key commercial families. Results show significant, and thus far unreported, fishing‐induced changes in marine communities after the establishment of commercial fishing in the region. Changes mostly relate to shifts in catch composition and steep declines in the abundance of the main commercial families. This study illustrates a method for analysing low‐quality historical catch data and provides estimates of pre‐commercial fishing abundance that can be included in stock and ecological assessments. More broadly, this study demonstrates the significant role of early fishing in shaping marine communities and increases our understanding about general patterns of exploitation that have been difficult to identify with longer but less detailed fishing histories.

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Identifying historical baseline at the onset of exploitation to improve understanding of fishing impacts

Novaglio

Smith

Frusher

et al. 2020

Aquatic Conservation

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“…Integrating research from a number of disciplines and spatial-temporal scales has provided opportunities for long-term analysis across local and regional scales (Hambrech and Rockman, 2017). Long-term historical-archaeological records and historical literatures have been combined with natural and earth science data to understand how humans understood environmental change and influenced terrestrial and marine environments (Kwok, 2017). Table 1: Journal citation frequency analysis of IPCC Assessment Report 5, Working Group 2, Global and Sectoral Aspects and journal publication frequency in Scopus research results [TITLE-ABS-KEY("*adapt*" AND "climate change")].…”

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Rediscovering lessons of adaptation from the past

Jackson

Dugmore

Riede

2018

Global Environmental Change

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We argue that the deep time perspectives offered by historical disciplines, such as archaeology and history, provide important human-scale data about climate-adaptation over long timescales, and that these insights are currently lacking in global change research and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. Pre-modern societies are not comparable with contemporary societies, but the completed experiments they represent can offer evidence of the consequences of climate change, the challenges of uncertainty and socio-cultural limits to adaptation. The limited visibility of data on long-term human interactions with climate change in global change research could be overcome through a 'new social contract', a two-way movement between global change and historical disciplines to, 1) make use of, and apply, historical data to contemporary climate-related challenges; 2) to design robust interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, 3) publish synthesised research in high-impact climate-adaptation journals and 4) communicate research to the public in cultural history museums.

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“…archaeological remains, pollen records and genetic analyses), but also on more typical humanities and social sciences sources (e.g. maps, written anecdotes, oral histories, photographs, newspapers and restaurant menus) [11]. Digital newspapers collections are a relatively new source in historical ecology and can be used to document the decline of burbot [4], study narratives on the wolf [7] and badger [19], analyse viper bites in a socioeconomic perspective [12], and record catch rates of the Australian snapper [21].…”

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“…The classified documents are returned to the user and the enrichments are fed back to the ATHENA Research portal as well as the CLARIAH Timbuctoo research data portal. 11 Furthermore, information from the classified documents is fed back to the DIAMANT lexicon. Currently, we do not detect new variants or species names, but we to provide additional word senses and attestations of the already known species names, thus enriching semantic information in the lexicon and the information on the diachronic distribution of terms.…”

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Slicing and Dicing a Newspaper Corpus for Historical Ecology Research

Erp¹,

Does²,

Depuydt³

et al. 2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Historical newspapers are a novel source of information for historical ecologists to study the interactions between humans and animals through time and space. Newspaper archives are particularly interesting to analyse because of their breadth and depth. However, the size and the occasional noisiness of such archives also brings difficulties, as manual analysis is impossible. In this paper, we present experiments and results on automatic query expansion and categorisation for the perception of animal species between 1800 and 1940. For query expansion and to the manual annotation process, we used lexicons. For the categorisation we trained a Support Vector Machine model. Our results indicate that we can distinguish newspaper articles that are about animal species from those that are not with an F1 of 0.92 and the subcategorisation of the different types of newspapers on animals up to 0.84 F1.

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Historical data: Hidden in the past

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Identifying historical baseline at the onset of exploitation to improve understanding of fishing impacts

Identifying historical baseline at the onset of exploitation to improve understanding of fishing impacts

Rediscovering lessons of adaptation from the past

Slicing and Dicing a Newspaper Corpus for Historical Ecology Research

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