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| Author(s): |
Célio F.B. Haddad
[1]
;
Carla M. Lopes
[2]
;
C. Guilherme Becker
[3]
;
Fernando R. da Silva
[4]
;
Mariana L. Lyra
[5]
Total Authors: 5
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade Estadual Paulista. Departamento de Biodiversidade. Centro de Aquicultura - Brasil
[2] Universidade Estadual Paulista. Departamento de Biodiversidade. Centro de Aquicultura - Brasil
[3] Pennsylvania State University. Department of Biology
[4] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Laboratório de Ecologia Teórica: Integrando Tempo, Biologia e Espaço. Departamento de Ciências Ambientais - Brasil
[5] Universidade Estadual Paulista. Departamento de Biodiversidade. Centro de Aquicultura - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 5
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Biota Neotropica; v. 22, 2022-09-05. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract Here, we summarize examples of significant advances in amphibian research supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), focusing on recent discoveries in the fields of community ecology, habitat change, infection diseases, and multipurpose DNA sequencing. We demonstrated that FAPESP has been fundamental not only by directly funding research projects and scholarships, but also through its science training policy, fostering international collaborations with world-class research institutions, improving and consolidating new lines of research that often depended on a synergetic combination of different knowledge and complex tools. We emphasized that future studies will continue to focus on basic questions, such as description of new species, as well as taxonomic and systematic corrections. Furthermore, we also expect that there will be a strong integration among different disciplines using novel bioinformatics tools and modeling approaches, such as machine learning. These new approaches will be critical to further develop our understanding of foundational questions of amphibian life-history trait variation, disease transmission, community assembly, biogeography, and population forecasts under different global change scenarios such as agricultural expansion, agrochemical use, habitat loss, and climate change. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/50741-7 - Diversity and conservation of Brazilian amphibians |
| Grantee: | Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad |
| Support Opportunities: | BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/14054-3 - Environmental DNA applied to monitoring and conservation studies of anurans in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
| Grantee: | Carla Martins Lopes |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/50714-0 - Influence of ecological and evolutionary processes in structuring amphibian communities at different spatial and temporal scales |
| Grantee: | Fernando Rodrigues da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Young Investigators Grants |