Moving from Latent to Manifest Problem: Trajectories Across Scientific and Public Salience of Invasive Alien Species.

ABSTRACT: Who worries first about an invasive alien species: scientists or the general public, or do both become concerned simultaneously? Taking thirteen invasive alien species in the Netherlands, this article reconstructs the development of their public and scientific salience: the attention they attracted and the knowledge about them. Salience was assessed from the number of publications from 1997 onwards in the LexisNexis newspaper database and Scopus scientific database. Three trajectories were derived for a species to move from being a latent problem with low salience toward a manifest status with high public and scientific salience. In the most common trajectory, scientific salience increased first, followed by an increase in public salience. We probed the merit of this concept of trajectorie

SUBMITTER: Vaas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8032613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature