Find below links to specific areas of the site about the Research Projects of the BIOTA FAPESP Program, as well as a listing of the most recent publications by our journalists.
Articles about BIOTA FAPESP
By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – Scientists, public administrators and civil society organizations in São Paulo state will join forces in…
By Luciana Constantino | Agência FAPESP – A study published in the journal Science shows for the first time that natural forest…
On March 25, the FAPESP Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use (BIOTA) began a process of…
By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – A group of researchers supported by FAPESP has proposed a number of new…
Study led by researchers at the University of São Paulo analyzed data for the period 1991-2014 and revealed that deforestation increased in election years. The phenomenon could cancel out the environmental gains achieved by conservation policies and actions, the scientists warn (photo: Simone Vieira/BIOTA-FAPESP Program)
By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – Brazil faced the likelihood of a fresh wave of wildfires in natural areas as…
By José Tadeu Arantes | Agência FAPESP – Research conducted in Brazil for more than 20 years in the Paraná River…
By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – Two researchers have spent the last 15 years tracking down a story that is…
By Janaína Simões | Agência FAPESP – By mapping the distribution of butterfly species in the Atlantic Rainforest biome along…
By Elton Alisson | Agência FAPESP – Having ratified in early March the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and…
By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP – More than 54,000 compounds derived from natural products that are part of Brazilian…
Biota/Fapesp Program is pleased to announce the São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Scenarios and Modelling on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services to…
By Peter Moon | Agência FAPESP – Researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil are investigating how deforestation…
By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP – Urbanization and the resulting shrinkage of green spaces in cities can be…
By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP – It looked as if they were drilling an artesian well on a…
Papers based in the IPBES Assessment on Pollination, Pollinators and food production are published in Science (read more here) and…
www.ipbes.net/media Embargo: 08:00 GMT, Friday February 26, 2016 News conference: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Friday 26 February, 10:00h GMT /…
On August 4, 2015, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published the list of experts and…
Study aims to investigate the structure and evolution of the Amazon biota by integrating different areas of knowledge Why did…
Project proposes to investigate the ecological restoration of anthropized forests in scientific, economic and public policy dimensions in order to…
Project also breaks new ground in the search for partnerships Talking about innovation, especially in regard to bioprospecting chemical molecules,…
Study applies biometric models to advance preclinical trials of natural products The discovery of an active molecule derived from an…
PEDRO H.S. BRANCALION (1), JEAN PAUL METZGER (2), RICARDO R. RODRIGUES (3), ROBIN CHAZDON (4), SILVIO F.B. FERRAZ (1), CARLOS…
The FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change – (RPGCC) aims at advancing knowledge on Global Climate Change. The foundation…
Future Earth is a major international research platform providing the knowledge and support to accelerate our transformations to a sustainable…
The BIOEN, FAPESP Bioenergy Research Program aims at articulating public and private R&D, using academic and industrial laboratories to advance…
É uma iniciativa internacional que promove pesquisa interdisciplinar focada na geração de conhecimentos que tornem o desenvolvimento global mais sustentável….