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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/52117| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas |
| Authors: | Ubirajara Oliveira João Paulo Peixoto Pena Barbosa João Renato Stehmann John S. Ascher Marcelo Ferreira de Vasconcelos Paulo de Marco Peter Löwenberg-neto Viviane Gianluppi Ferro Adalberto J. Santos Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho Adriano Pereira Paglia Antonio D. Brescovit Claudio J. B. de Carvalho Dasniel Paiva Silva Daniella T. Rezende Felipe Sá Fortes Leite João Aguiar Nogueira Batista |
| Abstract: | Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive empirical data. Here, we evaluate the degree of biodiversity protection and knowledge within all the Brazilian PAs through a gap analysis of vertebrate, arthropod and angiosperm occurrences and phylogenetic data. Our results show that the knowledge on biodiversity in most Brazilian PAs remain scant as 71% of PAs have less than 0.01 species records per km2. Almost 55% of Brazilian species and about 40% of evolutionary lineages are not found in PAs, while most species have less than 30% of their geographic distribution within PAs. Moreover, the current PA network fails to protect the majority of endemic species. Most importantly, these results are similar for all taxonomic groups analysed here. The methods and results of our countrywide assessment are suggested to help design further inventories in order to map and secure the key biodiversity of the Brazilian PAs. In addition, our study illustrates the most common biodiversity knowledge shortfalls in the tropics. |
| Subject: | Biodiversidade Ecologia Análise ambiental |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | ICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE BOTÂNICA ICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOLOGIA IGC - DEPARTAMENTO DE CARTOGRAFIA |
| Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08707-2 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/52117 |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08707-2#rightslink |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Scientific Reports |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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