The Program for Biodiversity Research in Brazil: The role of regional networks for biodiversity knowledge, dissemination, and conservation

CLARISSA ROSA; FABRICIO BACCARO; CECILIA CRONEMBERGER; JULIANA HIPÓLITO; CLAUDIA FRANCA BARROS; DOMINGOS DE JESUS RODRIGUES; SELVINO NECKEL-OLIVEIRA; GERHARD E. OVERBECK; ELISANDRO RICARDO DRECHSLER-SANTOS; MARCELO RODRIGUES DOS ANJOS; ÁTILLA C. FERREGUETTI; MARLÚCIA BONIFÁCIO MARTINS; WALFRIDO MORAES TOMAS; SANDRA APARECIDA SANTOS; VANDA LÚCIA FERREIRA; CATIA NUNES DA CUNHA; JERRY PENHA; JOÃO BATISTA DE PINHO; NA MARIA SALIS; CAROLINA RODRIGUES DA COSTA DORIA; VALÉRIO D. PILLAR; LUCIANA R. PODGAISKI; MARCELO MENIN; NARCÍSIO COSTA BÍGIO; SUSAN ARAGÓN; ANGELO GILBERTO MANZATTO; EDUARDO VÉLEZ-MARTIN; ANA CAROLINA BORGES LINS E SILVA; THIAGO JUNQUEIRA IZZO; AMANDA FREDERICO MORTATI; LEANDRO LACERDA GIACOMIN; THAÍS ELIAS ALMEIDA; THIAGO ANDRÉ; MARIA AUREA PINHEIRO DE ALMEIDA SILVEIRA; ANTÔNIO LAFFAYETE PIRES DA SILVEIRA; MARILUCE REZENDE MESSIAS; MARCIA C.M. MARQUES; ANDRE ANDRIAN PADIAL; RENATO MARQUES; YOUSZEF O.C. BITAR; MARCOS SILVEIRA; ELDER FERREIRA MORATO; RUBIANI DE CÁSSIA PAGOTTO; CHRISTINE STRUSSMANN; R

ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS.

ACAD BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS

Lugar: Rio de Janeiro; Año: 2021 vol. 93 p. 1 - 19

0001-3765

The Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) is an innovative program designed to integrate all biodiversity researchstakeholders. Operating since 2004, it has installed long-term ecological research sites throughout Brazil and its logic has beenapplied in some other southern-hemisphere countries. The program supports all aspects of research necessary to understandbiodiversity and the processes that affect it. There are presently 161 sampling sites (see some of them at Supplementary Appendix),most of which use a standardized methodology that allows comparisons across biomes and through time. To date, there are about1200 publications associated with PPBio that cover topics ranging from natural history to genetics and species distributions. Mostof the field data and metadata are available through PPBio web sites or DataONE. Metadata is available for researchers that intendto explore the different faces of Brazilian biodiversity spatio-temporal variation, as well as for managers intending to improveconservation strategies. The Program also fostered, directly and indirectly, local technical capacity building, and supported thetraining of hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students. The main challenge is maintaining the long-term funding necessaryto understand biodiversity patterns and processes under pressure from global environmental changes.