Platform for studies on marine biodiversity of the Southeastern Brazilian coast and the Antarctic region

• Grant number: 14/15168-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Program on Global Climate Change - Regular Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2015
• End date: March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Oceanography - Biological Oceanography
• Principal Investigator: Mario Katsuragawa
• Grantee: Mario Katsuragawa
• Host Institution: Instituto Oceanográfico (IO). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: June Ferraz Dias ; Marcelo Roberto Souto de Melo ; Mônica Angélica Varella Petti ; Vivian Helena Pellizari

Abstract

The use of collections of biological material and oceanographic data as forms of evaluation of changes in marine biodiversity has not been enough explored, although they are the central points that holds historical records of organisms in the environmental context in which were inserted. This project proposes to organize the biological collection of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo that represents about six decades of oceanographic research in the Brazilian coast and three decades in the Antarctic region. In addition, it is proposed implementing an information system of open access for research institutions and the scientific community in general, through a database that contextualizes the marine environment. From this organization will be possible investigations of medium-long term, which may contribute to the knowledge on marine biodiversity of the southeastern Brazilian coast and the Antarctic region, besides to providing subsidies to research issues that influence on biodiversity change over time, such as climate change, environmental impacts and bioinvasion. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MELO, MARCELO R. S.; BUCKUP, PAULO A.; OYAKAWA, OSVALDO T.. A new species of Characidium Reinhardt, 1867 (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Paraná State, southern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 14, n. 3, 2016. (14/15168-7, 00/04300-9)

MELO, MARCELO R. S.; CAIRES, RODRIGO A.. On the taxonomic status of three eels (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) described from Leptocephali by Tommasi (1960). ZOOLOGIA, v. 33, n. 6, p. 5-pg., 2016-01-01. (14/15168-7)

BORGES, MICHELA; PETTI, MONICA A., V; FUKUDA, MARCELO, V; CASSANO, VALERIA; FUJII, MUTUE T.; AMARAL, A. CECILIA Z.. Marine planktonic and benthic organisms: an ocean of diversity in the collections of the State of Sao Paulo. Biota Neotropica, v. 22, p. 11-pg., 2022-01-01. (19/12551-8, 14/15168-7, 17/50341-0, 18/10313-0)

MELO, MARCELO R. S.; CAIRES, RODRIGO A.. On the taxonomic status of three eels (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) described from Leptocephali by Tommasi (1960). Zoologia, v. 33, n. 6, 2016. (14/15168-7)

MELO, M. R. S.. A review of the genus Dysalotus (Percomorphacea: Chiasmodontidae), with the description of Dysalotus pouliulii sp nov.. Journal of Fish Biology, v. 90, n. 3, p. 786-802, MAR 2017. (14/15168-7, 13/07818-9)

MELO, MARCELO R. S.; ESPINDOLA, VINICIUS C.. Description of a new species of Characidium Reinhardt, 1867 (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, and redescription of Characidium bimaculatum Fowler, 1941. Zootaxa, v. 4196, n. 4, p. 552-568, NOV 24 2016. (14/15168-7)

FERRAZ DIAS, J.; PETTI, M. A. V.; CORBISIER, T. N.. TROPHIC POSITION AND NUTRITIONAL CONDITION OF THE ANCHOVY ENGRAULIS ANCHOITA LARVAE IN THE CABO FRIO REGION, BRAZIL. VIE ET MILIEU-LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT, v. 66, n. 3-4, p. 275-285, 2017. (14/15168-7)