The Brazilian Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) Information System.

The database of the Brazilian Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio; GIVD ID SA-BR-001) includes data on the environment and biological groups such as plants. It is organized by site, which is usually a grid with 10 to 72 uniformly-distributed plots, and has already surveyed 1,638 relevés across different Brazilian ecosystems. The sampling design is based on the RAPELD system to allow integration of data from diverse taxa and ecosystem processes. RAPELD is a spatially-explicit sampling scheme to monitor biodiversity in long-term ecological research sites and during rapid appraisals of biodiversity that has attracted support from many management agencies, which are using it as their long-term monitoring system. Vegetation surveys include measurements of cover, biomass and number of individuals from woody and herbaceous vascular plants, along with environmental data. We have recently migrated to a metadata catalog and data repository which allows searching for specific groups across all sites. All RAPELD data have been collected since 2001, though the site also allows data from other long-term plots to be archived as associated projects

The Brazilian Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) Information System.

The database of the Brazilian Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio; GIVD ID SA-BR-001) includes data on the environment and biological groups such as plants. It is organized by site, which is usually a grid with 10 to 72 uniformly-distributed plots, and has already surveyed 1,638 relevés across different Brazilian ecosystems. The sampling design is based on the RAPELD system to allow integration of data from diverse taxa and ecosystem processes. RAPELD is a spatially-explicit sampling scheme to monitor biodiversity in long-term ecological research sites and during rapid appraisals of biodiversity that has attracted support from many management agencies, which are using it as their long-term monitoring system. Vegetation surveys include measurements of cover, biomass and number of individuals from woody and herbaceous vascular plants, along with environmental data. We have recently migrated to a metadata catalog and data repository which allows searching for specific groups across all sites. All RAPELD data have been collected since 2001, though the site also allows data from other long-term plots to be archived as associated projects

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

Rearing Black Caiman (Melanosuchus Niger) outside its distribution range concerns the brazilian crocodilian research community.

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Meio século da proibição da caça no Brasil: consequências de uma política inadequada de gestão de vida selvagem.

A caça foi proibida no Brasil em 1967, pela lei que ficou conhecida como 'Lei de Proteção à Fauna'. Desde então, nenhuma política efetiva de gestão de fauna foi estabelecida no país. As consequências são graves, uma vez que a caça nunca foi plenamente controlada, e continua sendo comumente praticada em todas as regiões do Brasil. Além disso, o país falhou em educar a população para entender a fauna como recurso importante e valioso, e também em proporcionar seu uso sustentável. As universidades nunca estabeleceram um currículo acadêmico de gestores de fauna capacitados a manejar populações, já que, com a proibição, esse perfil profissional nunca foi considerado uma demanda relevante. O resultado é que a lista de espécies ameaçadas de extinção aumenta a cada nova versão, sendo a caça ilegal uma das principais causas desse processo. O maior país tropical do mundo carece da implantação de uma política abrangente e moderna de gestão de fauna e que seja governada por decisões de cunho técnico-científico e estratégico, ao invés da lógica 'tudo é proibido', que prevalece até hoje. Os objetivos deste artigo de opinião são estimular uma reflexão sobre a situação da caça no Brasil e apontar a necessidade de um sistema de gestão de fauna mais efetivo.Na publicação: Guilherme Mourão; Zilca Campos. Artigo de opinião