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Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation
Thomson, Scott A.; Pyle, Richard L.; Ahyong, Shane T.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel; Ammirati, Joe; Araya, Juan Francisco; Ascher, John S.Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:19:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-03-14; Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo; Chelonian Research Institute; Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature; Department of Marine Invertebratesn Museum; School of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales; Departamento de ...
Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas
Oliveira, Ubirajara; Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira; Paglia, Adriano Pereira; Brescovit, Antonio D.; Carvalho, Claudio J. B. de; Silva, Dasniel PaivaAlthough Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive empirical data. Here, we evaluate the degree of biodiversity protection and knowledge within all the Brazilian PAs through a gap analysis of vertebrate, arthropod and angiosperm occurrences and phylogenetic data. Our results show that the...