Sentiment analysis as a measure of conservation culture in scientific literature.

Keywords: biodiversity; conservation psychology; culturomics; language; species at risk; threatened taxa; web scraping; biodiversidad; culturomía; especies en riesgo; extracción de datos de sitios web; lenguaje; psicología de la conservación; taxones amenazados; ; ; ; ; ; ; Across the 4 lexicons, 12,627 words have been scored, and we manually searched for words whose colloquial meaning could be confounded by their more neutral implementation in conservation literature (e.g., I shark i , I lion i , and I parasite i [Supporting Information]). A sample of words that could be confounded (i.e., misinterpreted as positive or negative) in conservation contained in the 4 lexicons we used in an examination of sentiments in conservation literature.* Conservation optimism focuses on reporting success stories and progress toward the ultimate goals of biodiversity conservation, such as down listing of species at risk, successful enhancement or reintroduction of species, and restoration of habitat (e.g., Swaisgood & Sheppard [65]; Garnett & Lindenmeyer [25]). [Extracted from the article]