Plant awareness is linked to plant relevance: A review of educational and ethnobiological literature (1998-2020)
Plant awareness is linked to plant relevance: A review of educational and ethnobiological literature (1998-2020)
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植物意识与植物相关性相关：教育和民族生物学文献综述（1998-2020）
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10.1002/ppp3.10323
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2022
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社会影响陈述这项研究试图通过对教育和民族生物学文献的系统和批判性检查，对植物意识差异(植物失明)提供新的见解。对植物的低兴趣和低认识在城市社会中得到了很好的记录，并对生物多样性保护和可持续土地利用产生了严重影响。这项研究具有重要意义，因为它全面分析了不同社会中人-植物关系的特点，这在目前的学术文献中是不存在的。这些发现表明，人们的植物意识是在他们与与他们的生活直接相关的植物频繁互动的情况下发展起来的。摘要对植物的疏忽，被称为“植物盲目”或“植物意识差距”，是生物学家公认的担忧，但到目前为止，还没有对调查文献进行全面和批判性的审查。这项研究旨在解决这一问题，对1998年至2020年在索引期刊上发表的实验研究进行了叙述性回顾。使用一套以关键词为特征的相关搜索词提取了数据，并进行了专题内容分析；326项研究入围审查，其中大多数涉及生物教育、民族生物学和生物保护等主题领域。流行的研究方法是访谈和免费列出练习(民族生物学)和问卷和测试(教育)。植物意识差异的最常见特征是缺乏知识或识别技能，其次是动物相对于植物具有注意力或记忆优势，对动物的偏好和对植物的兴趣较低。没有确凿的证据表明人类与生俱来的植物意识差距；相反，城市化社会中对自然的体验减少似乎是原因。实际上，所有87项发现植物意识差异证据的研究都是在高收入国家的城市人口中进行的。相比之下，有109项以依赖生物资源的农村社区为基础的广泛植物学知识的研究，其中发现个人专业知识与野生植物采集的程度成比例。我们的结论是，与植物相关经验的减少导致了一个周期性的注意力不集中的过程，这可以通过对当地环境中可食用和有用的植物的第一手经验来解决。
Societal Impact StatementThis research attempts to provide novel insights into plant awareness disparity (plant blindness), through a systematic and critical examination of the educational and ethnobiological literature. The low interest and awareness for plants is well documented in urban societies and has serious implications for biodiversity conservation and sustainable land‐use. This study is significant because it provides a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of human‐plant relations in different societies, which does not currently exist in the academic literature. The findings suggest that people's plant awareness develops where they have frequent interactions with plants that have direct relevance to their lives.SummaryThe inattention to plants, known as ‘plant blindness’ or ‘plant awareness disparity’, is an established concern amongst biologists, but there has been no comprehensive and critical examination of the investigative literature to date. This study aims to address this, with a narrative review of experimental studies published in indexed journals from 1998 to 2020. Data were extracted using a suite of relevant search terms, characterised using key words and subjected to a thematic content analysis; 326 studies were shortlisted for review, with the majority in the subject areas of biological education, ethnobiology and biological conservation. The prevalent research methods were interviews and free‐listing exercises (ethnobiology) and questionnaires and tests (education). The most common characteristics of plant awareness disparity were a deficit of knowledge or identification skills, followed by an attention or memory advantage for animals compared to plants, preference for animals and low interest in plants. There was no concrete evidence of innate plant awareness disparity; instead, diminished experience of nature in urbanised societies appeared to be the cause. Virtually, all the 87 studies that found evidence of plant awareness disparity were undertaken in urban populations in high‐income countries. By contrast, there were 109 studies of extensive botanical knowledge based on rural communities dependent on biological resources, where individual expertise was found to be proportionate to the extent of wild plant collecting. We conclude that a decline in relevant experience with plants leads to a cyclical process of inattention that could be addressed through first‐hand experiences of edible and useful plants in local environments.