1. Disentangling the veil line for Brazilian biodiversity: An overview from two long-term research programs reveals huge gaps in ecological data reporting.
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Guimaraes AF, de Alagao Querido LC, Rocha T, de Jesus Rodrigues D, Viana PL, de Godoy Bergallo H, Fernandes GW, Toma TSP, Streit H, Overbeck GE, de Souza AQS, Lima AP, da Rosa CA, de Viveiros Grelle CE, Lopes AM, Curcino A, de Paula AS, Andriolo A, Dos Santos Dias A, Santos AT, Bernardes AA, da Silva Oliveira AB, de Barros AAM, E Silva ACBL, da Cruz ACR, de Holanda ASS, Bueno AS, Nunes-Freitas AF, Yves A, da Silva Alencar A, Scabin AB, Manzatto AG, Lima ACS, Pontes ARM, Castro AB, Gomes AM, Banhos A, Rosado BHP, Dos Santos Batista CA, Siqueira CC, Fontana CS, da Rocha CFD, Brocardo CR, da Costa Doria CR, Castilho CV, Pessanha C, Cordeiro CAMM, Cronemberger C, Andretti CB, Cornelius C, Campos C, Borges-Matos C, Barros CF, Keller C, de Oliveira Cavalcante C, de Sales Dambros C, da Silva Machado DN, Tassinari D, Villela DM, Chiaraniv E, de Farias Geisler E, Velez-Martin E, Carvalho-Junior EAR, Drechsler-Santos ER, Lourenco EC, Franklin E, Higashikawa EM, Pezzini F, de Oliveira Roque F, Baccaro FB, Becker FG, Cabeceira FG, do Prado Florencio F, Barbosa FR, Pezzini F, Zuquim G, Ferreira GB, de Vargas GK, Mourao G, Rousseau GX, de Lima HC, Farias HLS, Kaefer IL, Ghizoni IR, da Costa de Noronha J, de Oliveira JL, Santos JRS, Jarenkow JA, de Melo-Junior JCF, Dos Santos JVC, de Oliveira J, de Souza JLP, Baumgratz JFA, de Morais JW, de Melo Silva J, de Gois Silva J, Wingert JM, Menger J, Ferrer J, Dayrell JS, da Silva-Goncalves KC, Torralvo K, da Silva Cruz K, da Silva Sylvestre L, de Andrade Ribas L, Battirola LD, Ramos L, Caires LR, da Silva Carvalho LC, Stegmann LF, Carvalho LN, da Silva Menezes L, Costa LM, Podgaiski LR, Silveira LF, Malabarba LR, Frangipani MA, Tabarelli M, Nascimento MT, Marques MCM, Spies MR, de Oliveira Dos Santos MA, Anaicy M, Vital MJS, Silveira M, Vieira MV, de Moura Araujo MA, de Almeida Silveira MAP, Barros MF, Faitanin MA, Iguatemy M, da Cunha MS, da Silva Murakami MM, Messias MR, Martins MB, Camana M, de Medeiros Correa N, Fonseca NC, Prieto-Benavides OO, Pena Rodrigues PJF, de Andrade PL, Pequeno PACL, Gananca PHS, da Silva Ferreira PP, de Andrade PCR, Azarak PA, de Fraga R, Rabelo RM, de Lima Santos R, Barbosa RI, Dala-Corte RB, Vicente RE, de Oliveira Perdiz R, da Cunha Araujo RP, de Andrade RTG, de Cassia Quitete Portela R, Fadini R, Feitosa RM, Santa-Brigida R, Cerqueira R, Muller SC, Santorelli S, Dos Santos SB, Cechin SZ, Avilla SS, Pansini S, Aragon S, da Silva Figueiredo T, Sobroza TV, de Fatima Ramos Guimaraes T, Dos Santos TF, Emilio T, de Azevedo Amorim T, Izzo T, Sogral T, Dos Santos TG, Vincent TL, de Lima Rocha T, Pillar VD, Mesquita VP, Silva VD, Cyrino VME, Borges-Junior VNT, Layme VMG, Mota WG, Santos WN, Drose W, Silva WR, and Magnusson WE
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- Brazil, Ecology, Environmental Monitoring methods, Biodiversity, Conservation of Natural Resources methods
- Abstract
The lack of synthesized information regarding biodiversity is a major problem among researchers, leading to a pervasive cycle where ecologists make field campaigns to collect information that already exists and yet has not been made available for a broader audience. This problem leads to long-lasting effects in public policies such as spending money multiple times to conduct similar studies in the same area. We aim to identify this knowledge gap by synthesizing information available regarding two Brazilian long-term biodiversity programs and the metadata generated by them. Using a unique dataset containing 1904 metadata, we identified patterns of metadata distribution and intensity of research conducted in Brazil, as well as where we should concentrate research efforts in the next decades. We found that the majority of metadata were about vertebrates, followed by plants, invertebrates, and fungi. Caatinga was the biome with least metadata, and that there's still a lack of information regarding all biomes in Brazil, with none of them being sufficiently sampled. We hope that these results will have implications for broader conservation and management guiding, as well as to funding allocation programs., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2024
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