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. 2016 Jun 10;11(6):e0156425. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156425

Table 5. Top ten research categories under-represented in the CS compared to UE literature for birds and butterflies, ranked by the difference between z-scores for UE and CS respectively.

Birds Butterflies
Rank Category ZUE−ZCS Category ZUE−ZCS
1 Environment: micro 3.39 Environment: meso 4.21
2 Environment: meso 2.41 Habitat fragmentation: effects 1.23
3 Environment: seasonality 1.10 Environment: seasonality 0.73
4 Breeding: macro 1.04 Analysis: adaptive guilds 0.70
5 Behaviour: foraging 0.96 Environment: micro 0.63
6 Behaviour: diet 0.64 Autecology: urbanisation 0.48
7 Human impacts: physical disturbance 0.52 Behaviour: foraging 0.48
8 Behaviour: flight initiation distance 0.44 Human impacts: physical disturbance 0.48
9 Habitat fragmentation: effects 0.42 Movement: foraging 0.48
10 Behaviour: competition 0.39 Multi-taxa: surrogates 0.48