4 documents found, page 1 of 1
Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage
Fernandes, G. Wilson; Vale, M. M.; Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst; Bustamante, Mercedes M.C.; Grelle, Carlos Eduardo V.Viveiros; Bergallo, H. G.In the middle of a political and fiscal crisis, the Brazilian government is applying successive budget cuts, including in science funding. Recent cuts radically affect research programs on biodiversity that are crucial components for the design and monitoring of public policies for nature conservation and sustainable development. We analyze the consequences of such cuts on the Research Program on Biodiversity (...
Effects of Brazil's political crisis on the science needed for biodiversity con...
Magnusson, William Ernest; Grelle, Carlos Eduardo V.Viveiros; Marques, Márcia Cristina Mendes; Rocha, Carlos Frederico D. daThe 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 m...
Birds of Parque Estadual do Tainhas, an important protected area of the highlan...
Chiarani, Eduardo; Fontana, Carla SuertegarayParque Estadual do Tainhas – PET (Tainhas State Park) is a protected area with significant extensions of natural grasslands located in highland grasslands of northeastern Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, and recognized as an Important Bird Area. Our aim was to record the bird species richness of PET with a greater sampling effort than previous studies at the site, including unpublished data such as occurrence s...
Avaliações da Floresta Urbana: Levantamentos Quantitativos da Vegetação em Túne...
Salvi, Luciane Teresa; Rovedder, Cristiano Eidt; Hardt, Letícia Peret Antunes; Fontana, Carla SuertegarayOs túneis verdes, objetos de estudo deste trabalho, constituem estruturas paisagísticas recorrentes na paisagem de Porto Alegre. Formados pela densa arborização viária, integram a floresta urbana da capital gaúcha e representam uma alternativa aos projetos dedicados ao fomento da vegetação em ambientes urbanizados. As propostas que objetivam a implantação desses túneis devem considerar o aumento da densidade e ...