Lira-Noriega Andrés, Soberón Jorge
Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA,
Ambio. 2015 Sep;44(5):391-400. doi: 10.1007/s13280-014-0581-0. Epub 2014 Dec 6.
At a global level, the relationship between biodiversity importance and capacity to manage it is often assumed to be negative, without much differentiation among the more than 200 countries and territories of the world. We examine this relationship using a database including terrestrial biodiversity, wealth and governance indicators for most countries. From these, principal components analysis was used to construct aggregated indicators at global and regional scales. Wealth, governance, and scientific capacity represent different skills and abilities in relation to biodiversity importance. Our results show that the relationship between biodiversity and the different factors is not simple: in most regions wealth and capacity varies positively with biodiversity, while governance vary negatively with biodiversity. However, these trends, to a certain extent, are concentrated in certain groups of nations and outlier countries. We discuss our results in the context of collaboration and joint efforts among biodiversity-rich countries and foreign agencies.
在全球层面，人们常常认为生物多样性重要性与其管理能力之间的关系是负相关的，而在世界200多个国家和地区之间并没有太多区分。我们使用一个包含大多数国家陆地生物多样性、财富和治理指标的数据库来研究这种关系。基于这些数据，主成分分析被用于构建全球和区域尺度上的综合指标。财富、治理和科学能力代表了与生物多样性重要性相关的不同技能和能力。我们的研究结果表明，生物多样性与不同因素之间的关系并不简单：在大多数地区，财富和能力与生物多样性呈正相关，而治理与生物多样性呈负相关。然而，这些趋势在一定程度上集中在某些国家群体和 outliers 国家。我们在生物多样性丰富的国家与外国机构之间的合作和共同努力的背景下讨论我们的研究结果。 （注：原文中“outlier countries”直译为“异常值国家”，可能结合上下文有更准确的表述，但按要求未添加解释，保留原文）
