Lack of science support fails Brazil

Zamudio, Kelly R.; Kellner, Alexander W. A.; Serejo, Cristiana S.; Britto, Marcelo R.; Castro, Clovis B.; Buckup, Paulo Andreas; Pires, Débora O.; Couri, Márcia Souto; Kury, Adriano B.; Cardoso, Irene A.; Monné, Marcela L.; Pombal, José P.; Patiu, Cátia Mello; Padula, Vinícius; Pimenta, Alexandre Dias; Ventura, Carlos Renato Rezende; Hajdu, Eduardo; Zanol, Joana; Bruna, Emilio M.; Fitzpatrick, John W.; Rocha, Luiz A.

doi:10.1126/science.aav3296

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“…The tragic destruction by fire of the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro which housed one of the richest collections of natural history artefacts in the world, most of which were lost 2 should serve as a wake-up call to all natural history museums and botanic gardens to review the security of their collections in terms of fire and water damage risk, sprinklers, insurance (or as in the case of the Brazilian museum, lack insurance), documentation, duplicates, etc. As Zamudio & al. (2018) comment, 'Museum collections are timeless national treasures that represent our histories, cultures, and scientific achievements.…”

Section: Safeguarding the Heritagementioning

confidence: 66%

The cultural heritage of Mediterranean botanic gardens

2019

Bocconea

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online. Mediterranean botanic gardens represent a rich and diverse cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible. They include spectacular landscapes and the plantings include many important introductions of both ornamental and economically important species. The gardens also contain many buildings of great architectural merit, some historic, some modern. Also important are the historic glasshouses and shade houses. Many of these gardens contain important herbarium collections that have served a key role in the preparation of Floras and major botanical libraries containing historical works of great value as well as works of art, sculptures paintings, drawings, and other illustrations and invaluable historic archives. The intangible cultural heritage of these gardens is represented by the impact that they have had the inhabitants of the cities and towns in which they are located and on generations of visitors-students, professionals and the public. With the decline of teaching and research in botany as a university discipline, some of these collections are at risk of dispersal or an even worse fate. In the face of these uncertainties a series of proposals to help safeguard this invaluable heritage is given, including the compilation of an inventory of these historically important buildings, libraries, works of art and archives and the use of the latest scanning and imaging techniques so that a visual record is prepared.

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Section: Safeguarding the Heritagementioning

confidence: 66%

The cultural heritage of Mediterranean botanic gardens

2019

Bocconea

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“…Acronyms of collections where the material was studied and catalogued: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MNRJ); Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (MZUCR); Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom (NHMUK); Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA (USNM). Due to the recent fire in MNRJ (Zamudio et al 2018), the vouchers in this collection were possibly destroyed. Identification.…”

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Eulimids (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) on the Sea Cucumber Holothuria mexicana (Ludwig, 1875) (Holothuroidea, Holothuriidae) in Belize

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This study presents new records for 4 eulimid species (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) including Melanella eburnea (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824), Melanella hypsela (Verrill & Bush, 1900), Melanella sp., and Eulimostraca encalada Espinosa, Ortea & Magaña, 2006 found on the body wall of the sea cucumber Holothuria mexicana in Belize. Three of these records (M. hypsela, M. eburnea, and E. encalada) represent a first for the Western Caribbean ecoregion and close a distributional gap for these species in the Caribbean. The geographic distribution of M. eburnea is thereby expanded by ~800 km; M. hypsela by ~1,200 km and E. encalada by ~970 km in the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic province. This article presents for the first time H. mexicana as a new host record for E. encalada.

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“…NADINE DUPÉRRÉ 1 DUPÉRRÉ 60 • Megataxa 1 (1) © 2020 Magnolia Press renovations, security, and protection have been ignored for decades (Zamudio et al, 2018). The decline in funding for NHMs directly affects taxonomy by: reducing the meticulousness of taxonomic publication; prolonging species descriptions; increasing travel costs; decreasing access to specimens and data.…”

Section: Old and New Challenges In Taxonomy: What Are Taxonomists Up mentioning

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Old and new challenges in taxonomy: what are taxonomists up against?

Dupérré

2020

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Lack of science support fails Brazil

Cited by 31 publications

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The cultural heritage of Mediterranean botanic gardens

The cultural heritage of Mediterranean botanic gardens

Eulimids (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) on the Sea Cucumber Holothuria mexicana (Ludwig, 1875) (Holothuroidea, Holothuriidae) in Belize

Old and new challenges in taxonomy: what are taxonomists up against?

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