InsectGapMap


A project to map gaps in our knowledge of insect conservation actions

Review of reviews

Collate actions by systematically mapping literature reviews

Build ontology

Create an ontology of insect conservations and how they are described

Topic modelling

Run semi-supervised topic modelling on broader literature to map out research gaps and clusters

Review of reviews

We are conducting a rigorous systematic map of literature reviews to identify relevant evidence syntheses on insect conservation actions. We are following standards for systematic mapping developed by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence to ensure a reliable output. We are extracting actions from across >9,000 potentially relevant reviews.


Find out more about our planned methods by reading our preprint systematic map protocol. This protocol is now in press in the journal Environmental Evidence and will be published shortly. Check out progress in our public SysRev project page here.

Build ontology

We are assembling a diverse group of leading international experts to help us to build an ontology (a 'tree' of terminology for different actions) that clusters similar actions together and identifies the many different ways the same action might be described differently by researchers across the world.

Topic modelling

Because the research literature on insect conservation is far too big for any one person to read, we will make use of sophisticated computational algorithms to identify what research exists on each of the insect conservation actions that we have identified across our ontology using semi-supervised topic modelling.

To find out more detail about the methods used in this project, see Methods.



To see our results, click here.





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This project is led by the Stockholm Environment Institute with generous funding provided by Mistra