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SUBMITTER: Oliveira U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5567310 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170822 1
Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive empirical data. Here, we evaluate the degree of biodiversity protection and knowledge within all the Brazilian PAs through a gap analysis of vertebrate, arthropod and angiosperm occurrences and phylogenetic data. Our results show that the knowledge on biodiversity in most Brazilian PAs remain scant as 71% of PAs have less ...[more]