Insights on COVID-19 impacts, challenges and opportunities for India's biodiversity research: From complexity to building adaptations.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every sphere of human society. The paradigm shift of focus to COVID-related research and management has significantly affected various scientific domains, including biodiversity conservation. We assessed the perceptions of early-career researchers working for biodiversity conservation across India, to understand the impacts of the ongoing pandemic on their research. We administered an online questionnaire survey to 565 respondents, who identified four key areas that are affected by the pandemic: (1) research, (2) conservation (3) education, and (4) communication and networking. Respondents (89.2%) perceived that their fieldwork, followed by travel for meetings and funding were the most affected due to COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown. Nonetheless

SUBMITTER: Ramvilas G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8798314 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature