Evaluating conservation biology texts for bias in biodiversity representation

Discussion Our results supported our prediction that conservation biology textbooks exhibit bias in their coverage of Earth’s biodiversity. Inaccurate representation of taxonomic groups and Fig 4. The ecosystem where examples were described as a percent of all examples. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234877.g004 Fig 5. The percentage of conservation textbook examples related to each major taxonomic group as described by each textbook. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234877.g005 PLOS ONE Bias in conservation biology textbooks PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234877 July 10, 2020 6 / 11