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In ten years, with an annual budget of approximately 3 million USD, the BIOTA/FAPESP Program supported 90 major research projects—which trained successfully 172 undergraduates, 169 M.Sc., 108 Ph.D. students, as well as 79 post-docs. Produced and stored information about approximately 12,000 species and managed to link and make available data from 35 major biological collections of the State of São Paulo. This effort is summarized in more than 600 articles published, in 180 scientific journals from which 110 are indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database. Among the indexed periodicals, Nature and Science have the highest impact factor, and the median value among all indexed periodicals that authors of the Biota Program have published was equal to 1.191, significantly higher than the average for the area in Brazil. Furthermore, the Program published, so far, 16 books and 2 Atlas. These results were used by the State of São Paulo Government to improve public policies of biodiversity conservation and restoration.
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A standard pattern of species lists was established for each recognized taxonomic group. Consequently, attached to the sampling site record the researcher send the associate list of taxon or taxa collected in that specific locality.
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Joly, C.A. (2014). BIOTA/FAPESP: The Biodiversity Virtual Institute—Translating Research on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Policies in a Megadiverse Country. In: Verdade, L., Lyra-Jorge, M., Piña, C. (eds) Applied Ecology and Human Dimensions in Biological Conservation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54751-5_14
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