Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Extensão acadêmica: utilizando à educação em saúde como instrumento de abordagem para a desmistificação da pediculose

Introdução: A pediculose é considerada um ectoparasito que é ocasionado pelo Pediculus humanus capitis que infesta somente o couro cabeludo do homem e que possui histórico de longa data, no qual facilita compreender todos os empirismos que surgem e são praticados, até os dias atuais, acerca dessa temática. Objetivo: Instigar a importância da pediculose para as crianças e toda a comunidade, assim como minimizar os fatores vinculados com os determinantes sociais da saúde relacionados com o piolho de cabeça. Metodologia: Estudo observacional e qualitativo, com a participação de crianças e adolescentes, com idade entre 6 e 18 anos, de escolas, centros e creches públicas do Rio de Janeiro. O desenvolvimento deste trabalho ocorreu por meio de exposições de materiais didáticos, bem como apresentação de ovos e ninfas do Pediculus humanus em microscópios, peças teatrais, rodas de conversa, quebra-cabeças, fantoches, animações em Power Point e panfletos, por meio de discentes de enfermagem que atuam no projeto de extensão de Parasitologia, para tornar mais palpável possível o conhecimento científico deste parasito. Resultados: O público-alvo a todo momento interagiu com os participantes do projeto, mostrando-se pró-ativos e interessados pela temática, além de ter sido notado as mudanças intelectuais sobre o piolho de cabeça e os comportamentos frente a este problema sociocultural. Conclusão: A importância da educação em saúde apresentada em atividades lúdicas e dinâmicas contribuiu em mudanças nos hábitos das atividades de vida diárias sobre essa doença parasitária e a relevância da participação de graduandos de Enfermagem para estimular a promoção à saúde