Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America.
Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
PLoS Biol. 2022 Jun 16;20(6):e3001674. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001674. eCollection 2022 Jun.
Understanding tropical biology is important for solving complex problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic pandemics, but biology curricula view research mostly via a temperate-zone lens. Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed to tackle these issues.
了解热带生物学对于解决气候变化、生物多样性丧失和人畜共患病大流行等复杂问题非常重要,但生物学课程主要从温带地区的角度来看待研究。为了解决这些问题,迫切需要将热带研究纳入生物学教育。