Enabling integrated research through monitoring of biodiversity and climate measurements

• Grant number: 16/04982-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - eScience and Data Science Program - Regular Program Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2017 - October 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Corrêa
• Grantee: Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Corrêa
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz ; Rodrigo Silva Pinto Jorge
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/06107-5 - Visual analytics: data visualization in knowledge discovery in the GoAmazon2014/5 data repositories, BP.IC

Abstract

Large scale field observational projects are collecting climate and biological data, these collections are typically done at the local-scale, developing a hybrid data with both climate and biodiversity data will enable new integrated research to answer some key scientific questions such as how local aerosol and other climate parameters are related to biodiversity parameters in broad and narrow time-space scale in the Amazon. Recently enabled large-scale monitoring projects such as Green Ocean Amazon by U.S Dept of Energy's Atmospheric Measurement Program (ARM) in collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA - Brazil) are collecting climate data at three experimental sites in Brazil. These measurements study aerosols and surface fluxes, cloud-aerosol-precipitation interactions. Similarly the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade from the Ministry of Environment of Brazil (ICMBio/MMA), has established a protocol for conducting a long-term biodiversity monitoring of protected areas, which includes collecting biodiversity data for frugivorous butterflies, vascular plants, birds and large and medium size mammals. These sampling protocols have been placed in eight protected areas through the Amazon biome and data have been collected since October 2014 in a cooperation of ICMBio/MMA, Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ) and Moore Foundation. The objective of this study is to use the data collected by ICMBio of butterflies, plants, birds and mammals in regional ,and to use climate measurements from ARM instruments in Manaus (AM) and Manacapuru (AM), to develop a biodiversity-climate hybrid data visualization and analyze tool. (AU)

Scientific publications

(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)

PINAYA, JORGE L. D.; CRUZ, FRANCISCO W.; CECCANTINI, GREGORIO C. T.; CORREA, PEDRO L. P.; PITMAN, NIGEL; VEMADO, FELIPE; LOPEZ, MARIA DEL C. ARMEN S.; PEREIRA FILHO, AUGUSTO J.; GROHMANN, CARLOS H.; CHIESSI, CRISTIANO M.; et al. Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 9, NOV 29 2019. (15/50683-2, 16/04982-0, 13/50297-0, 17/50085-3)