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

A criança, a dança e a sociabilidade na escola

A pesquisa proporcionoua crianças do ensino fundamental da rede pública municipal de São Paulo vivências em Dança por meio de um Programa de atividades artísticas que integroua linguagem da Dança coma Música,o Teatroe as Artes Visuais.O programa, denominado “Vivências do Corpo”, buscou sensibilizar as crianças paraa relação delas com seu corpo, como “outro”e como ambiente em que vivem.O objetivo da pesquisa foi analisar como um Programa dedicadoa vivências em Dança no ambiente escolar pode potencializaro processo de interação entre as crianças do ponto de vista da sociabilidade. A idealização desta pesquisa partiu da observação de duas experiências pessoais:a primeira,a maneira desrespeitosa e, por vezes, agressiva de as crianças se relacionarem no ambiente escolar;a segunda, atreladaa um projeto de ação cultural envolvendoa linguagem da Dança, com outra comunidade escolar, que também se encontra inserida em uma infraestrutura urbana sociocultural, que incitaa um contexto de vulnerabilidade. Esse projeto, realizado em uma escola localizada na periferia da zona oeste de São Paulo foi desenvolvido no ano de 2008 pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Dança: Estética Educação (GPDEE) do Instituto de Artes da Unesp,e destacouo escasso contato dessa comunidade coma Arte. O GPDEE deu continuidade ao trabalho nessa comunidade escolar com outro projeto de ação cultural, ao qual esta pesquisa esteve vinculada. Com abordagem qualitativa,a pesquisa apresentou como estratégiao estudo de caso que foi dinamizado coma efetivação do Programaa crianças do terceiro ano da referida escola. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com essas crianças, antese depois da aplicação do Programa, registradas em vídeo,e que serviram como fonte de dados...The research provided to children from basic education of municipal public school of São Paulo, experiences in dance through a program of artistic activities that integrated the language of the Dance with the Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. The program called “Vivências do Corpo” it was tried to make children aware of their body with others next to them and the environment which they live. The purpose of the research was to analyze how a program can be devoted to experiences in Dance in the school environment can enhance the interaction between the children in the view of sociability. The meaning of this research came from the observation of two personal experiences: the first was the disrespectful and aggressive relationship children to each other in the school environment; the second was linked to a cultural action project involving dance language with other school community, which is also introduced into a socio-cultural urban infrastructure that encourages a context of vulnerability. This project was done in a school located on the West outskirts of São Paulo it was developed in 2008 by the Research Group Dance: Aesthetic Education (GPDEE) of the Art Institute of Unesp and pointed the little contact that community hás with art. The GPDEE continued the work in this school community with another cultural action project to which this research was linked. With a qualitative approach, the research presented as strategy a case study that was dynamized with the program for children of the third year of that school. Semi-structured interviews were made with these children before and after program aplication, recorded by videofilm, which served as a source of data for analysis of this research. As a result it was possible to see the enhance of social relations among children in the act of teaching... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)