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"A Saúde Planetária é uma área de estudo que reúne de forma interdisciplinar a saúde humana e suas relações com a saúde dos ecossistemas. Embora seja um campo em grande expansão frente aos desafios das mudanças globais recentes, trata-se de um assunto ainda pouco abordado no ensino básico e em escolas. Para suprir esta lacuna, nesta cartilha tratam...
Antes de começar nossa caminhada no tema da alimentação, é importante que você compreenda um pouco mais sobre quem somos e o que estamos abordando aqui neste livreto. Quem somos? As pessoas que começaram a escrever este livreto fazem parte do Clube Brasileiro de Saúde Planetária (CBSP). Fazem parte desse clube estudantes universitários de todo o pa...
The Citizen Science (CS) approach has made significant contributions to urgent global issues in the realms of science and conservation. Forti (2023) recently discussed his rewarding experience of engaging university students in environmental studies within the unique Brazilian Caatinga biome. Expanding upon Forti's insights, we delve deeper into ou...
In citizen science, training and evaluation are important steps in improving the pedagogical effectiveness of projects. However, evaluating learning outcomes is complex and usually requires multidimensional analysis. In this work, we analyze the influence of the profile of citizen scientists (i.e., gender, age, level of education, educational backg...
The "Pomar Urbano" (Urban Orchard) project focuses on the collaborative monitoring of fruit-bearing plant species in urban areas throughout Brazil.
The project collected a list of 411 fruit-bearing plant species (Soares et al. 2023), both native and exotic varieties found in Brazil. This list was selected from two main sources: the book Brazilian...
FIT Count (Flower-Insect Timed Counts) is a citizen science initiative that seeks to monitor flower visitation by diverse pollinator groups, including bumblebees, stingless bees, honeybees, flies, hummingbirds, among others. The protocol entails determining a 50 x 50 cm plot area around a target plant species, photographing the plant and conducting...
Bees are in global decline and specialized species might be the most vulnerable to extinctions. Bee conservation can be studied using interaction networks, whose relative importance of nodes might correlate with morphological traits. Specifically, body size could affect flying range and thus influence the set of plant-bee interactions. Although sev...
Citizen science networks can provide support and visibility to existing initiatives. Although citizen science is a growing practice in Brazil, several challenges still exist. A network can play an important role in overcoming these challenges, helping with the exchange of knowledge between initiatives or raising funding, for example. The Brazilian...
O protocolo Flower-Insect Timed Counts (FIT Count) — Contagem Cronometrada de Visitantes Florais, em português — foi desenvolvido no Reino Unido pelo UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (UK-POMS) como um protocolo de ciência cidadã. Consiste em demarcar uma área de 2.500 cm² ao redor de um conjunto de flores-alvo pré-definidas e, durante 10 minutos, co...
Human activities that alter natural environments, causing shifts in land
use, agrochemical contamination, habitat fragmentation, unsustainable
exploitation of environmental resources, and global climate change, among others, pose threats to most living beings inhabiting our planet. Among them are pollinators, several groups of animals that visit fl...
Background: Pollination is an important service to guarantee the well functioning of Ecosystems and agroecosystems. Since about 90% of crop yields worldwide depend on pollination, monitoring the abundance of pollinators is important to ensure food security. Citizen science can be an approach to produce data on pollinators abundance, but context-bas...
O FIT Count (Flower Insect Timed Count - Contagem Cronometrada de Visitantes Florais na tradução para o português) é um protocolo de ciência cidadã desenvolvido pela equipe do UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology dentro do Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS). Recentemente, o grupo de pesquisa interdisciplinar SURPASS2 realizou a tradução e adaptação...
While the world was reporting losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of researchers from the Universities of Harvard and of São Paulo worked towards the organization of an international event, seeking to discuss alternatives for the post-COVID world. With technology as an ally, the joint effort resulted in holding the fourth and largest Plane...
O FIT Count é um protocolo de ciência cidadã que tem como objetivo monitorar as visitas de polinizadores às flores (CARVELL et al., 2022). Ao realizar o monitoramento através do protocolo FIT Count, a(o) cientista cidadã(o) poderá compreender quais as espécies de plantas e grupos de visitantes florais que existem em suas redondezas, compreender qua...
Tivemos um ano desafiador em diversos sentidos, e já nos aproximamos do seu final, ainda assim tivemos várias conquistas, tanto para nosso grupo como para a comunidade da Saúde Planetária. Por isso não podemos deixar de comemorar e fechar este ano com chave de ouro. Hoje completamos um ano desde o primeiro seminário do grupo (Saúde Planetária na Am...
Citizen science comprises the partnership between members of a society and scientists performing a genuine scientific project. In this book, we present a citizen science protocol for monitoring flight activity of stingless bees. By following the protocol steps, you can perform stingless bee nest monitoring, create new knowledge, and help understand...
Although the quality of citizen science (CS) data is often a concern, evidence for high-quality CS data increases in the scientific literature. This study aimed to assess the data reliability of a structured CS protocol for monitoring stingless bees’ flight activity. We tested (1) data accuracy for replication among volunteers and for expert valida...
Palestra sobre abelhas, polinização e como a ciência cidadã pode auxiliar no trabalho com questões científicas envolvendo estes temas.
Expanding involvement of the public in citizen science projects can benefit both volunteers and professional scientists alike. Recently, citizen science has come into focus as an important data source for reporting and monitoring United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since bees play an essential role in the pollination ecosystem serv...
The influence of long-term storage on the evolution of social insect male ejaculates remains a puzzle. Here, we studied the influence of sperm storage on male ejaculates in the stingless bee Scaptotrigona aff. depilis, a species where queens mate with a single male and thus do not trigger sperm competition. We estimated quantitative genetic paramet...
The Atlantic Forest is an important hotspot of biodiversity and ecosystem services that contributes to the well-being of its 125 million human inhabitants, about three quarters of the Brazilian population. In the coming decades, forecasts show that urban areas in the Atlantic Forest will grow at the expense of natural ecosystems, leading to increas...
Mixed bird flocks are very diverse in size, number of species, habitats, and interactions between members, however there are few reports about which morphological characteristics of species lead to flocking behavior. We conducted a literature search in order to test the effect of body weight on flocking behavior, and performed an ordinal regression...
The reproductive biology of stingless bees is poorly understood, especially when compared to other groups of social bees with great ecological and economic importance. However, research on this topic has grown over the past few years, mostly driven by technological advances in molecular biology. Here, we aimed to review several recent developments...
Quantitative genetic traits provide insights into the evolutionary potential of populations, as heritability estimates measure the population’s ability to respond to global changes. Although wild and managed bees are increasingly threatened by the degradation of natural habitats and climate change, risking plant biodiversity and agriculture product...
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Reproductive success is determined by the interplay between mating and fertilization success. In social insect species with male-biased sex ratios and queen monogamy, males face particularly strong pre-copulatory sexual selection since they must compete with thousands of other males for a unique mating opportunity. Ejaculate quality is a...
Even though stingless beekeeping has a great potential as a sustainable development tool, the activity remains essentially informal, technical knowledge is scarce, and management practices lack the sophistication and standardization found in apiculture. Here, we contributed to the further development of
stingless beekeeping by investigating the lon...
Although stingless bees have a great potential as commercial pollinators, their exploitation depends on the successful reproduction of colonies on a large scale. To do so, it is essential to develop accurate diagnostic tools that enable a better understanding of the reproductive biology of stingless bees. Sperm counts, sperm morphology and sperm vi...
Although stingless bees have a great potential as commercial pollinators, their exploitation depends on the successful reproduction of colonies on a large scale. To do so, it is essential to develop accurate diagnostic tools that enable a better understanding of the reproductive biology of stingless bees. Sperm counts, sperm morphology and sperm vi...
