Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity

• Description
• Requirements
• Setup
• Scripts
• Troubleshooting

Nussaïbah B. Raja, Emma M. Dunne, Aviwe Matiwane, Tasnuva Ming Khan, Paulina S. Nätscher, Aline M. Ghilardi, Devapriya Chattopadhyay

Description

This repository contains all the data (in /data) and R scripts (in /scripts) necessary to examine how socio-economic factors and colonial history influences paleontological research output. The outputs of the scripts are provided in the /output and figures in the /figs folder. Please cite the study as:

Raja, N. B., Dunne, E. M., Matiwane, A., Khan, T. M., Nätscher, P. S., Ghilardi, A. M., and Chattopad-hyay, D. (2021). Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity.Nature Ecology & Evolution.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01608-8

Requirements

This code was developed in R 4.1.1. It is therefore recommended to use the same or any more up-to-date version of R for reproducing the analyses in this study.

Setup

You will need to either use the Rstudio project environment or set your working directory to the root of this folder.

To install all required depdendencies (packages), run:

source(file.path("inst","dependencies")

Scripts

The scripts/ folder contains all the code generated for the above mentioned study.

• 00-prepare_data.R: This script prepares the data to be used in following analyses.

• 01-prop_per_aff_country: This script computes the contribution to fossil data per country, including domestic and foreign research.

• 02-network parachute.R: This script is used for global network analyses and to calculate the parachute index per country.

• 03-model.R: This script is used for the path analysis to represent the relationship between the socio-economic factors and research output.

Troubleshooting

The issue tracker is the preferred channel for bug reports. You may also contact me by email.