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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15729| Title: | Dismantling Brazil's science threatens global biodiversity heritage |
| Authors: | Fernandes, G. Wilson Vale, M. M. Overbeck, Gerhard Ernst Bustamante, Mercedes M.C. Grelle, Carlos Eduardo V.Viveiros Bergallo, H. G. Magnusson, William Ernest Akama, Alberto Alves, Suelen S. Amorim, André Márcio Araújo Araújo, Joaquim Barros, Cláudia Franca Bravo, Freddy Carim, Marcelo J.Veiga Cerqueira, Rui Collevatti, Rosane Garcia Colli, Guarino R. Cunha, Cátia Nunes da D'Andrea, Paulo Sérgio Dianese, José Carmine Diniz, Soraia Estrela, Pedro Cordeiro Fernandes, Mariluce R.M. Fontana, Carla Suertegaray Giacomin, Leandro Lacerda Pascholati Gusmão, Luís F. Juncá, Flora Acuña Lins-E-Silva, Ana Carolina Borges Lopes, Cassiomar Rodrigues A.S. Lorini, Maria Lucia Queiroz, Luciano P. Malabarba, Luiz R. Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes Junior, Brienza Hur Marimon Marques, Márcia Cristina Mendes Martinelli, Bruno M. Martíns, Marlúcia Bonifácio Medeiros, Hermes Fonseca de Menin, Marcelo Morais, Paula Benevides de Muniz, Francisca Helena Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino Oliveira, J. A. Oliveira, R. P. Pedroni, Fernando Penha, Jerry Magno Ferreira Podgaiski, Luciana Regina Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus Scariot, Aldicir Silveira, Luis Fabio Silveira, Marcos Tomás, Walfrido Moraes Vital, Marcos José Salgado Pillar, Valério de Patta |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 15, Número 3, Pags. 239-243 |
| Abstract: | 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 (PPBio), the largest biodiversity research network in Brazil (626 researchers, nine networks in all Brazilian biomes). Brazil holds a substantial part of the world's biodiversity and of tropical forests that play a significant role for regional and global climate stability. If underfunding is maintained, the dismantling of the Brazilian PPBio will have consequences that go beyond biodiversity knowledge itself but affect society as a whole. Brazil will likely fail to reach the National Targets for Biodiversity 2011–2020, and it will be difficult to fulfill the restoration target of the Brazilian NDC and to advance with the sustainable development goals. © 2017 Associação Brasileira de Ciência Ecológica e Conservação |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1016/j.pecon.2017.07.004 |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigos |
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