The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science

• Tatsuya Amano ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: t.amano@uq.edu.au

  Affiliations School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6576-3410

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• Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Violeta Berdejo-Espinola,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Israel Borokini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University and Jepson Herbaria, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Shawan Chowdhury,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Marina Golivets,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany

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• Juan David González-Trujillo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC-MNCN), Madrid, Spain

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• Flavia Montaño-Centellas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Kumar Paudel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Greenhood Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rachel Louise White,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

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• Diogo Veríssimo

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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