Plants, Soils & Climate Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Sci Total Environ. 2019 Jul 10;673:694-698. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.126. Epub 2019 Apr 10.
There has been considerable progress in elucidating the physical aspects of climate change that directly impact food, feed, and fiber production. However, these impact assessments rarely account for climate induced changes associated with biological pests. The lack of collaboration between the pest management and climate science disciplines could be contributing to the problem. Therefore, we assessed research-based relationships, identifying possible barriers to and gaps in successful collaboration. We developed an algorithm capable of identifying author affiliation and associated disciplines. We found that pest management and climate scientists most often authored papers in their respective disciplines (>90%), but rarely in the opposing disciplines (<1%). Atopica, an international research group, is one of the few examples of how interdisciplinary collaborations have led to the co-production of knowledge to better understand and manage a pest responding to climate change. Researcher-to-researcher relationships, as demonstrated by Atopica, are an often overlooked area of science and key to solving major societal challenges.
在阐明直接影响粮食、饲料和纤维生产的气候变化的物理方面，已经取得了相当大的进展。然而，这些影响评估很少考虑与生物害虫有关的气候诱发变化。害虫管理和气候科学学科之间缺乏合作可能是造成这一问题的原因。因此，我们评估了基于研究的关系，确定了成功合作的可能障碍和差距。我们开发了一种能够识别作者隶属关系和相关学科的算法。我们发现，害虫管理和气候科学家通常在各自的学科中撰写论文（>90%），但很少在对立学科中撰写论文（<1%）。Atopica 是一个国际研究小组，是为数不多的跨学科合作如何导致共同产生知识以更好地理解和管理应对气候变化的害虫的例子之一。正如 Atopica 所展示的那样，研究人员之间的关系是科学中经常被忽视的一个领域，也是解决重大社会挑战的关键。
