The inequalities of the extinction of experience: The role of personal characteristics and species traits in the distribution of people–plant interactions in Japan
The inequalities of the extinction of experience: The role of personal characteristics and species traits in the distribution of people–plant interactions in Japan
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DOI：
10.1111/1440-1703.12009
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发表时间：
2019-05
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2
通讯作者：
M. Soga;Kazuaki Tsuchiya;M. Evans;S. Ishibashi
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作者：
M. Soga;Kazuaki Tsuchiya;M. Evans;S. Ishibashi
人们对人们日益丧失与动植物群植物群的直接互动感到关切。这种经验的灭绝对生物多样性和人类都有许多潜在的深远影响，包括公众对保护问题的支持减少，以及人类与自然互动时所体验到的健康益处减少。然而，关于生物多样性经验如何在社会不同部门之间分布以及这种分布的主要驱动因素的知识仍然很少。在这里，我们报告了一项在日本全国范围内进行的在线调查的结果，在该调查中，我们探讨了参与者直接体验野生开花植物的程度，分布和驱动因素。参与者被要求提供他们的社会人口统计信息，对自然的取向，童年居住环境，以及他们是否经历过21种野生开花植物。据报道，参与者经历过的野生开花植物物种的数量差异很大。老年人和女性参与者以及那些在农村地区度过童年并更倾向于自然的人与开花植物物种的互动次数显着增加。参与者可能会遇到喜欢路边环境的植物物种（与草地/农田和依赖森林的物种相比），并且不在红色名录上。这项新的研究提供了关于人类与周围野生动物相互作用的独特信息。这些信息对于制定旨在减少正在消失的经验及其消极后果的政策和战略至关重要。
There is concern about the increasing loss of people's direct interactions with fauna and flora. Thisextinction of experiencehas many potential far‐reaching implications for both biodiversity and humans, including the decrease of public support for conservation issues and a reduction in the health benefits that humans experience when interacting with nature. However, knowledge of how experiences with biodiversity are distributed among different sectors of society and the key drivers of this distribution remains poor. Here, we report on the results of a nation‐wide online survey in Japan in which we explored the extent, distribution, and drivers of participant's direct experiences with wild flowering plants. Participants were asked to provide information on their sociodemographics, orientation toward nature, childhood residential environment, and whether they had experienced each of 21 wild flowering plant species. The reported number of wild flowering plant species that participants had experienced varied greatly. Older and female participants and those with childhoods in rural areas and with a greater orientation toward nature experienced a significantly higher number of interactions with flowering plant species. Plant species that prefer roadside environments (compared to grassland/farmland and forest‐dependent species) and are not on the Red List were likely to be experienced by participants. This novel study provides unique information about the interactions of people and the wildlife around them. Such information is crucial for the development of policies and strategies targeted to reduce the ongoing extinction of experience and its negative consequences.