1. Effects of Brazil's Political Crisis on the Science Needed for Biodiversity Conservation
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Bruno M. Martinelli, Ana Carolina Borges Lins-e-Silva, Walfrido Moraes Tomas, Helena Godoy Bergallo, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Mariana M. Vale, Valério D. Pillar, Rui Cerqueira, Alberto Akama, Rosane G. Collevatti, Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha, Aldicir Scariot, Luiz Roberto Malabarba, Luís Fábio Silveira, William E. Magnusson, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Selvino Neckel-Oliveira, Carlos E. V. Grelle, Márcia C. M. Marques, WILLIAM E. MAGNUSSON, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA, MARIANA M. VALE, UFRJ, WALFRIDO MORAES TOMAS, CPAP, RUI CERQUEIRA, UFRJ, ROSANE COLLEVATTI, UFG, VALÉRIO D. PILLAR, UFRGS, LUIZ R. MALABARBA, UFRGS, ANA CAROLINA LINS-E-SILVA, UFRPE, SELVINO NECKEL-OLIVEIRA, UFSC, BRUNO MARTINELLI, UNB, ALBERTO AKAMA, MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI, DOMINGOS RODRIGUES, UFMT, LUIS F. SILVEIRA, USP, ALDICIR OSNI SCARIOT, Cenargen, GERALDO W. FERNANDES., CARLOS E. V. GRELLE, UFRJ, MÁRCIA C. M. MARQUES, UFPR, CARLOS F. D. ROCHA, UERJ, BRAULIO DIAS, UNB, CARLA S. FONTANA, PUCRS, HELENA BERGALLO, UERJ, and GERHARD E. OVERBECK, UFRGS
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Natural resource economics ,lcsh:Evolution ,Biodiversity ,Developing country ,Climate change ,Legislation ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Indigenous ,Brasil [Biodiversidade] ,Conservação da natureza ,Deforestation ,lcsh:QH540-549.5 ,Political science ,lcsh:QH359-425 ,Floresta amazônica ,Funding ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,biodiversity ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Governance ,Ecology ,funding ,Corporate governance ,Law enforcement ,climate change ,governance ,Financiamento governamental ,lcsh:Ecology ,Mudança climática ,Brazil - Abstract
The effects of Brazil's political crisis on science funding necessary for biodiversity conservation are likely to be global. Brazil is not only the world's most biodiverse nation, it is responsible for the greater part of the Amazon forest, which regulates the climate and provides rain to much of southern South America. Brazil was a world leader in satellite monitoring of land-use change, in-situ biodiversity monitoring, reduction in tropical-forest deforestation, protection of indigenous lands, and a model for other developing nations. Coordinated public responses will be necessary to prevent special-interest groups from using the political crisis to weaken science funding, environmental legislation and law enforcement. © 2018 Magnusson, Grelle, Marques, Rocha, Dias, Fontana, Bergallo, Overbeck, Vale, Tomas, Cerqueira, Collevatti, Pillar, Malabarba, Lins-e-Silva, Neckel-Oliveira, Martinelli, Akama, Rodrigues, Silveira, Scariot and Fernandes.
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