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Examining evident interdisciplinarity among prides of lion researchers

机译：检查狮子研究人员的骄傲之间明显的跨学科性

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Lions (Panthera leo) have experienced dramatic population declines in recent decades and today, inhabit just a fraction of their historic range. The reasons behind these declines are many, but conflict with humans, principally motivated by lion depredation of livestock, is among the most influential. Recent calls within the scientific community have identified that wicked problems like these should be addressed using interdisciplinary approaches. Here we examined the extent to which human-lion conflict research has been interdisciplinary. We conducted an extensive review of the literature and uncovered 88 papers, published between 1990 and 2015, that assessed human-lion interaction and the ecology of lions exposed to anthropogenic disturbance. While human-lion conflict research experienced near-exponential growth across this time period, the number of co-authors engaged in this research changed very little (mean = 3.28, se = 0.19). Moreover, co-authors of this research tended to be affiliated with units from just three highly-related STEM disciplines (biology, wildlife management, and environmental science). Comparatively, co-authors affiliated with units in the humanities and social sciences occurred in <4% of all papers examined. Our analysis also presents a novel framework that positions human-lion conflict research as having five, not two dimensions, as has been commonly conceptualized. These dimensions include not only the human and the lion dimensions, but also the livestock, wild prey, and environmental dimensions. None of the papers that we evaluated concurrently studied all five of these dimensions to determine their impact on human-lion conflict. Furthermore, despite the fact that human-lion conflict research was primarily developed by co-authors from STEM disciplines, the most common dimension evaluated was the human dimension, requiring social science and humanities expertise. Our analysis indicates that interdisciplinarity among human-lion conflict research has historically been low. These low levels of interdisciplinarity observed from 1990-2015 however, are not representative of the ongoing efforts to develop more inclusive research teams to solve human-lion conflict. Thus, we discuss the implications of this research for the development of sustainable solutions to conserve lions and preserve human well-being and identify potential avenues forward to create more interdisciplinary prides of lion researchers.
机译：狮子（Panthera leo）在最近几十年中经历了急剧的人口下降，而如今，其栖息地仅是其历史范围的一小部分。这些下降背后的原因有很多，但与人类的冲突（最主要是由于狮子对牲畜的掠夺而引起）是最有影响力的。科学界最近的呼吁已经确定，应该使用跨学科的方法来解决诸如此类的邪恶问题。在这里，我们研究了人与狮子冲突研究的跨学科程度。我们对文献进行了广泛的审查，发现了1990年至2015年之间发表的88篇论文，这些论文评估了人与狮子的相互作用以及受到人为干扰的狮子的生态。虽然在这段时间内人与狮子的冲突研究经历了近乎指数级的增长，但从事这项研究的合著者人数变化很小（平均值= 3.28，se = 0.19）。此外，这项研究的合著者往往只隶属于三个高度相关的STEM学科（生物学，野生动植物管理和环境科学）。相比之下，与人文科学和社会科学有关的单位的合著者中，少于所研究论文的4％。我们的分析还提出了一个新的框架，该框架将人与狮子的冲突研究定位为五个维度，而不是通常被概念化的两个维度。这些维度不仅包括人和狮子的维度，还包括牲畜，野生猎物和环境的维度。我们评估的所有论文都没有同时研究这五个方面来确定它们对人与狮子冲突的影响。此外，尽管人与狮子之间的冲突研究主要是由STEM学科的合著者进行的，但评估的最普遍的方面是人的方面，需要社会科学和人文专业知识。我们的分析表明，人与狮子冲突研究之间的跨学科性历史悠久。但是，从1990年至2015年间，这些学科之间的联系程度较低，并不代表目前正在努力建立更具包容性的研究团队来解决人与狮子的冲突。因此，我们讨论了这项研究对开发可持续解决方案以保护狮子和维护人类福祉的意义，并确定了创造更多跨学科骄傲的狮子研究者的潜在途径。

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