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DOI	10.1073/PNAS.2002552117
	No buzz for bees: Media coverage of pollinator decline
	Althaus S.L.; Berenbaum M.R.; Jordan J.; Shalmon D.A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:2
英文摘要	Although widespread declines in insect biomass and diversity are increasing concerns within the scientific community, it remains unclear whether attention to pollinator declines has also increased within information sources serving the general public. Examining patterns of journalistic attention to the pollinator population crisis can also inform efforts to raise awareness about the importance of declines of insect species providing ecosystem services beyond pollination. We used the Global News Index developed by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to track news attention to pollinator topics in nearly 25 million news items published by two American national newspapers and four international wire services over the past four decades. We found vanishingly low levels of attention to pollinator population topics relative to coverage of climate change, which we use as a comparison topic. In the most recent subset of ∼10 million stories published from 2007 to 2019, 1.39% (137,086 stories) refer to climate change/global warming while only 0.02% (1,780) refer to pollinator populations in all contexts, and just 0.007% (679) refer to pollinator declines. Substantial increases in news attention were detectable only in US national newspapers. We also find that, while climate change stories appear primarily in newspaper “front sections,” pollinator population stories remain largely marginalized in “science” and “back section” reports. At the same time, news reports about pollinator populations increasingly link the issue to climate change, which might ultimately help raise public awareness to effect needed policy changes. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Insect decline; News attention; Text data
语种	英语
scopus关键词	awareness; bee; climate change; greenhouse effect; human; Illinois; nonhuman; pollinator; review; article
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/181110
作者单位	Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820-7478, United States; Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801-3795, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Althaus S.L.,Berenbaum M.R.,Jordan J.,et al. No buzz for bees: Media coverage of pollinator decline[J],2021,118(2).
APA	Althaus S.L.,Berenbaum M.R.,Jordan J.,&Shalmon D.A..(2021).No buzz for bees: Media coverage of pollinator decline.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(2).
MLA	Althaus S.L.,et al."No buzz for bees: Media coverage of pollinator decline".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.2(2021).