Scientific research on animal biodiversity is systematically biased towards vertebrates and temperate regions - Fig 9

<p><b>Scatterplots comparing the number of biodiversity papers against the number of threatened animal species (a) and species richness (b) listed in IUCN databases [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0189577#pone.0189577.ref019" target="_blank">19</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0189577#pone.0189577.ref020" target="_blank">20</a>] per country.</b> Temperate countries tend to have more biodiversity research than tropical countries for a given number of threatened species or a given species richness.