How much are we losing in not depositing anuran sound recordings in scientific collections?

Autor(es)

Dena, Simone ^[1] ; Reboucas, Raoni ^{[2, 3]} ; Augusto-Alves, Guilherme ^{[2, 4]} ; Zornosa-Torres, Camila ^{[2, 4]} ; Pontes, Mariana Retuci ^{[2, 4]} ; Toledo, Luis Felipe ^{[2, 1]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas Adao Jose Cardoso ZUEC, Museu Zool, FNJV, Inst Biol, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Inst Biol, Dept Biol Anim, Lab Hist Nat Anfibios Brasileiros LaHNAB, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[3] Inst Biol, Programa Posgrad Biol Anim, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[4] Inst Biol, Programa Posgrad Ecol, Campinas, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING; v. 29, n. 5 JUN 2019.
• Citações Web of Science: 2

Resumo

Anuran sound archives allow monitoring populations, studying animal communication, evolution, taxonomy, and natural history, besides evaluating historical events through the preservation of sound recordings. However, some of these materials are being lost because they are not deposited in archives. Thus, we investigated the percentage of herpetologists that do not deposit their recordings, their reason not to do so, and the number of recordings and financial funding lost. We observed that nearly 80% of herpetologists do not catalogue the sounds they collect, resulting in the loss of over six million dollars, only in Brazil, over the past decades. The main reasons for not cataloguing such records were lack of time, lack of expertise in cataloguing procedures, and the belief that it is not necessary. Over the past 18 years, the number of studies in which recordings were deposited increased; however, they never accounted for more than 50% of the total amount of studies. Leaving audiovisual files out of sound archives hinders public access, impairs scientific progress and increases the loss of information probability. Besides, as most of the bioacoustics studies are funded by taxpayer money (in Brazil), depositing recordings is also essential considering the proper allocation of public resources. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 16/25358-3 - O fungo quitrídio no Brasil: da sua origem às suas consequências
• Beneficiário: Luis Felipe de Toledo Ramos Pereira
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 19/03170-0 - Sinalização acústica, sísmica e visual: investigando a comunicação multimodal em anuros neotropicais
• Beneficiário: Guilherme Augusto Alves
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado