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Bergallo HG, Rosa C, Ochoa AC, Manzatto AG, Guimaraes AF, Banhos A, Castilho CV, Barros CF, Norris D, Drucker DP, Rodrigues DJ, Baccaro FB, Lourenço IH, Zuanon J, Stegmann LF, Anjos MR, Silveira M, Araújo PSG, Bobrowiec PED, Fadini R, Neckel-Oliveira S, Emilio T, Santorelli Junior S, Magnusson WE. Long-term Ecological Research: Chasing fashions or being prepared for fashion changes? AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2023; 95:e20230051. [PMID: 37878914 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202320230051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Long-term-ecological-research (LTER) faces many challenges, including the difficulty of obtaining long-term funding, changes in research questions and sampling designs, keeping researchers collecting standardized data for many years, impediments to interactions with local people, and the difficulty of integrating the needs of local decision makers with "big science". These issues result in a lack of universally accepted guidelines as to how research should be done and integrated among LTER sites. Here we discuss how the RAPELD (standardized field infrastructure system), can help deal with these issues as a complementary technique in LTER studies, allowing comparisons across landscapes and ecosystems and reducing sampling costs. RAPELD uses local surveys to understand broad spatial and temporal patterns while enhancing decision-making and training of researchers, local indigenous groups and traditional communities. Sampling of ecological data can be carried out by different researchers through standardized protocols, resulting in spatial data that can be used to answer temporal questions, and allow new questions to be investigated. Results can also be integrated into existing biodiversity networks. Integrated systems are the most efficient way to save resources, maximize results, and accumulate information that can be used in the face of the unknown unknowns upon which our future depends.
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Affiliation(s)
- Helena G Bergallo
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 20550-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Departamento de Biología, Ejército de los Andes, 950, Capital, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Departamento de Biologia, Campus, Rodovia BR 364, Km 9,5, Bairro Rural, 76801-059 Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Naturais e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000 Alegre, ES, Brazil
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- Embrapa Roraima, Rodovia BR 174, Km 8, Caixa Postal 133, 69301-970 Boa Vista, RO, Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Laboratório de Botânica Estrutural, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, 22460-030 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amapá, Coordenação de Ciências Ambientais, Ramal da UNIFAP, Km 02, 68903-758 Macapá, AP, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agricultura Digital, Av. André Tosello, nº 209, 13083-886 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Av. Alexandre Ferronato, 1200, 78550-728 Sinop, MT, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Departamento de Biologia, Av. Rodrigo Octavio Gen. Rodrigo Octávio, 6200, 69080-900 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Ordenamento Pesqueiro do Vale do Rio Madeira, Rua Vinte e Nove de Agosto, 786, 69800-000 Humaitá, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária Amazônia Oriental, Tv. Dr. Enéas Pinheiro, s/n, 66095-903 Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Ordenamento Pesqueiro do Vale do Rio Madeira, Rua Vinte e Nove de Agosto, 786, 69800-000 Humaitá, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, BR 364, Km 4, 69920-900 Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação, Av. Vera Paz, s/n, 68040-255 Santarém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, s/n, 88040-970 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD), Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia, P.O. Box 6109, 13083-000 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Instituto de Educação, Agricultura e Ambiente, Rua 29 de Agosto, 786, 69800-000 Humaitá, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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Mota LL, Boddington SJ, Brown Jr. KS, Callaghan CJ, Carter G, Carter W, Dantas SM, Dolibaina DR, Garwood K, Hoyer RC, Robbins RK, Soh A, Willmott KR, Freitas AVL. The butterflies of Cristalino Lodge, in the Brazilian southern Amazonia: An updated species list with a significant contribution from citizen science. BIOTA NEOTROPICA 2022. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2022-1367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Abstract The richest butterfly communities in the world are found in the Amazon rainforest. Despite of this, and the importance of species inventories for the knowledge of diversity patterns, there are few comprehensive lists of butterflies for localities in the Brazilian Amazon. Here, we present an updated list of the butterflies of Cristalino Lodge (Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil), in southern Amazonia, based on specimens collected by researchers and photographic records taken by ecotourists, butterfly watchers, and tour guides. With 1010 species recorded, this is currently the largest list of butterflies published for a single locality in Brazil and the first to reach (and surpass) 1000 species, with more than one third of the records coming from citizen science. The region has about 29% of the butterfly species in Brazil and one of the greatest richnesses known in the country, inferior only to areas in the western Amazon. Its fauna is mainly composed of species widely distributed in lowland Amazonia, with the addition of some species typical of the Cerrado. It has a relatively low number of species of the tribe Ithomiini (Nymphalidae: Danainae), generally considered a good indicator of the total butterfly diversity in neotropical forests, which points to the need for caution when using a single taxonomic group as a surrogate of richness of entire communities. The present work highlights the importance of citizen science and ecotourism centers for inventories and data on species distribution in diverse tropical forests.
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