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Miguel A. Carretero ([email protected])http://webpages.icav.up.pt/pessoas/podarcis/BET/
Master and Doctoral Program in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution
2018/2019
Biodiversity ofterrestrial ecosystems
10. THE NEW CHALLENGES;Biodiversity in the 21th Century
10. New challenges
▪ Knowledge on abiotic factors
▪ Knowledge on distribution
▪ Databases (big data)
▪ New analytical tools
The future of biodiversity studies
Technical improvements
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Data sources
Preexisting data
Digital maps
Data quality
Digital maps
Remote sensing
Recording
Vectorisation
Rasterisation
Data
Base
GPS
Generation of new data
Atlas do Ambiente
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10. New challengesRemote sensing
LIDAR
10. New challengesDNA barcoding
Environmental DNA
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Stochastic models
mechanistic models
Kearney & Porter (2004)
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▪ Application of scientific method
The future of biodiversity studies
Technical improvements
Conceptual improvements
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ObservationsGeneral Law
or HipothesisExplanations
INDUCTIVE METHOD
Hipothesis Observações
DEDUCTIVE METHOD
Theory Predições
10. New challenges
▪ Application of scientific method
The future of biodiversity studies
Technical improvements
Conceptual improvements
▪ Integration of levels and dimensions
▪ Incorporation of evolutionary history
▪ Practical applications
(human ecology, conservation)
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Keppel et al. (2012)
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“Citizen science”Projects where volunteers participate in tasks related to research, such
as data recording, group coordination, development of computer
applications, etc.
They allow aiming objectives unreachable with traditional methods
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▪ Do genetically modified organsims
represent a real threat for biodiversity?
Why?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ How and what to describe, inventory and
monitor in biodiversity with so limited
resources?
Questions on biodiversity
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• How to solve such global problems and
with so many countries involved?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Are biodiversity conservation and
development incompatible?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Is uncontrolled development really
profitable?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ What to do if most of the destruction
of carried our by the poorest human
populations?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Those who take the decisions are not
involved in their consequences. What to
do?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Populations neighbouring protected
areas do not receive direct benefits.
What to do?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ How to increase funds for manging and
increasing number of protected areas?
Questions on biodiversity
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Genyer et al. (2006)
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▪ What to do if endangered species or
habitats are private?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Governments take too long to react to
the problems. How to behave?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Financial forces are never interested.
What to do?
Questions on biodiversity
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▪ Biodiversity and Conservation
▪ Biological Conservation
▪ Biological diversity
▪ Bioscience
▪ Conservation Biology
▪ Ecological Applications
▪ Journal of Biogeography
▪ Global Ecology and Biogeography
▪ Nature
▪ Science
Journals
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10. New challenges