Table 2 Coefficients of correlation (Spearman's non-parametric correlation test) between the relative Internet salience of climate change and invasive alien species and the assigned threat severity within the IUCN Red List database34.

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

 

UK

France

Germany

Climate change

0.13**

0.12**

0.10*

Invasive alien species

0.16**

0.18**

0.11**

  1. Dataset comprises threatened species from the four studied taxon groups from United Kingdom, France and Germany, classified as susceptible to the threat at issue within this database.
  2. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.
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