The Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use (BIOTA-FAPESP) program was launched in March, 1999. The objective of the program is to know, to map and assess the biodiversity of São Paulo State, including the fauna, the flora and microorganisms, but also evaluate the possibilities of sustainable exploitation of plants or animals with economic potential and supporting policy making for forest remnants conservation.n to evaluating the possibilities of sustainable exploitation of plants or animals with economic potential and supporting policy making for forest remnants conservation.
Mountain environments concentrate biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services (ES) locally, and for a large proportion of lowland populations, water being central among them. The large mountain ranges of South America span a variety of climates, biogeography, and cultural and land use histories and thus lend themselves to a continent-wide comparative analysis and synthesis of bi…
The REUSE project focuses on the circular economy approach addressing the recovery of valuable polyphenolic compounds from two wastewaterstaken as case studies from the processing of coffee and olive oil. Olive oil and coffee production generate large amounts of wastewater with highBiochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), causing toxicity to plants and microorgan…
Treated urban wastewater effluents may constitute a source of nutrients for thegrowth of bioplastic (polyhydroxyalkanoate, PHA) producing photosyntheticorganisms. PHA are the only bioplastics that can fully biodegrade under all possible ofenvironmental conditions. Currently, commercial PHA production process isundertaken by cultures of heterotrophic microorganisms with high demands of ene…
Species interactions are central mechanisms in the structure, dynamics, and functioning of ecosystems. Currently, concepts and methods from network science are widely applied in the study of bipartite networks describing a specific mode of ecological interaction (e.g., plant-herbivore). This project proposes innovations in the study of species interactions with interdisciplinary applicati…
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The current global energy matrix continues to rely heavily on fossil fuel-based energy sources, leading to increased impact on climate change. Increase awareness of the problem has led to a major shift towards developing cleaner and renewable technologies. In this context, microbial cellular platforms have been engineered to efficiently produce biofuels and biochemicals from lignocellulos…
The neglected diseases caused by parasites affect more than one billion people and represent a negative impact on health, education, productivity and socioeconomic development. Chemotherapy remains the main method of controlling these diseases, but the available drugs are limited in number and effectiveness. Aware of this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO), in its new roadmap wi…
Microalgae and cyanobacteria exhibit economic and biotechnological relevance, being widely commercialized as functional food and nutritional supplement for humans and animals. This proposal implies on investigation of this biotechnological potential considering a strain of green microalgae - Chlorolobion lunulatum, and a strain of cyanobacteria - Rhabdoderma lineare. We justified the choi…
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As interações entre espécies são engrenagens centrais da estrutura, dinâmica e funcionamento dos ecossistemas. Atualmente, conceitos e métodos oriundos da ciência das redes complexas são amplamente utilizados no estudo de redes bipartidas que descrevem uma forma de interação ecológica (e.g., planta-herbívoro). Este projeto propõe inovações no estudo das interações entre espécies com aplic…
Testes de toxicidade com sedimentos são importantes ferramentas para descrever e identificar os riscos ecológicos resultante da exposição a substâncias químicas, fator relevante de perda da biodiversidade em ambientes bentônicos. No Brasil existem poucos modelos bentônicos usados nesses bioensaios, e para aqueles já estabelecidos, o conhecimento é incipiente sobre os mecanismos de toxicid…
Microalgas e cianobactérias exibem relevância econômica e biotecnológica sendo largamente comercializadas como alimento funcional e suplemento nutricional para humanos e animais. Esta proposta sugere a investigação desse potencial biotecnológico considerando uma cepa de microalga verde - Chlorolobion lunulatum, e de uma cepa de cianobactéria - Rhabdoderma lineare. Justificamos a escolha d…
A diversidade biológica é uma propriedade do ecossistema que tem recebido um aumento de atenção nos últimos anos, principalmente devido a perda da biodiversidade ser um dos mais críticos problemas ambientais atualmente. Especificamente, a biodiversidade marinha pode ser objeto de rápidas mudanças devido as influências antropogênicas tal como pesca, perda de habitat, introdução de espécies…
O recente uso do mergulho técnico tem contribuido para o avanço nas pesquisas relacionadas a ecossistemas recifais mesofóticos (mesophotic coral ecosystems - MCE), recifes profundos situados entre 30 e 150 m de profundidade. Investigações sobre a biodiversidade de MCEs revelam ricas assembleias e espécies desconhecidas em diversas localidades do mundo, com uma taxa de descoberta de duas e…
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