Unidades de Conservação Brasileiras : tendências espaço temporais da literatura científica, distribuição geográfica e suficiência climática

Abstract

Environmental impacts directly affect the biodiversity. Therefore, the conservation becomes essential for the maintenance of species and biological cycles. Protected Area (PA) become one of the essential tools for this purpose. However, we still have little knowledge about Brazilian PAs and, especially, the Cerrado biome. In this thesis I present two papers that seek to evaluate different aspects of PAs in the Cerrado biome and in Brazil. In the first paper, we evaluated the historical geography of creation of the UCs, the bioclimatic representation and infometric data about the PAs of Cerrado biome. We identified low coverage by PAs in the biome, high overlap of PAs, gap of contemplation of all bioclimatic variables and many PAs with few papers or search on the internet. In the second paper, it has developed a systematic mapping to spatialized the scientific production in Brazilian PAs and analyzes whether some factors explain how divergences exist. We found that there are many PAs with no paper or few published papers. We also found that PAs with more papers were larger, older and close to an urban area. Therefore, we present results that can contribute to the scientific, historical and efficiency mapping of Brazilian UCs and, thus, take actions that improve the status of biodiversity conservation.