Mapping the scientific output of the Costal Studies Program (PEC) of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil, as a contribution to coastal ecosystem services

Amílcar Carvalho Mendes,Ana Yoshi Harada,Artur Gustavo Oliveira De Miranda,Heloísa Vargas Borges

doi:10.46357/bcnaturais.v11i2.426

Abstract

The Amazon coastal zone comprises an area of 9,000 km², located between the Oiapoque River in Amapá and São Marco Bay, Maranhão, Brazil. Several environments characterize the area, such as beaches, tidal plains, salty and freshwater marshes, estuaries, mangroves, lowland rainforest, tropical forests, lakes, lagoons, islands, rivers, deltas, dunes. This essay using scientific articles published from 1997 to 2015 by Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) researchers tries to map the scientific output of the Coastal Studies Program (PEC) that completes 20 years of existence in 2017. The map produced from this bibliographical survey offers data on zoology, botany, geology, anthropology, archeology, ecological and multidisciplinary studies as a contribution to Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Services (MCES).

Highlights

Brazil occupies 47% of the area of South American and has a coastline of approximately 8,500 km, of which the Amazon coastal zone occupies 35%
The main goal of this paper is to identify the major areas of scientific output of the Coastal Studies Program, relating these to the staging areas where they were produced and the geographical distribution of effort, data collection, and knowledge generation in the Amazon coastal zone
MATERIALS AND METHODS Scientific articles selected from the MPEG digital archive (MPEG, s. d.), from the Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, and other scientific journals were organized in an excel spreadsheet to facilitate organization

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Brazil occupies 47% of the area of South American and has a coastline of approximately 8,500 km, of which the Amazon coastal zone occupies 35% This coastal belt lies between the Oiapoque River in Amapá (5° N, 51° W) and the São Marcos Bay in Maranhão (2° S, 44° W), where in are found different environments such as beaches, tidal plains, salty and fresh water marshes, estuaries, mangroves, lowland rainforest, tropical forests, lakes, lagoons, islands, rivers, deltas, dunes. In Brazil, the main scientific centers producers are the universities that concentrate mostly on research and development investments and, have the largest number of researchers (Guimarães, 2004) and postgraduate programs. This prevalence of universities in scientific production is recognized in developed countries like the United States of America, France, Germany (Meadows, 1999)

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