Table 1 Relationship between the Internet salience of climate change and invasive alien species when Internet search included the name of one of the threats only, and when it comprised also scientific names of threatened amphibian, reptile, bird and mammal species from United Kingdom, France and Germany.

From: Societal attention toward extinction threats: a comparison between climate change and biological invasions

Internet search type

Internet salience

Proportion (%, median across species and range)

Threat + scientific name (median across species and range)

Threat

Climate change

UK

183.5 (0–552)

858,000

0.021 (0.000–0.064)

France

18.0 (0–489)

400,000

0.005 (0.000–0.122)

Germany

31.0 (0–723)

835,000

0.004 (0.000–0.087)

Invasive alien species

UK

95.5 (2–354)

192,000

0.050 (0.001–0.184)

France

1.0 (0–63)

1,450

0.069 (0.000–4.345)

Germany

6.0 (0–384)

9,060

0.066 (0.000–4.238)