{"id":218203,"date":"2016-05-25T18:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=218203"},"modified":"2016-05-25T18:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:41:31","slug":"a-guidebook-on-brazilian-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-guidebook-on-brazilian-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"A guidebook on Brazilian ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_218204\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218204\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_Formigas.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil is home to 31% of the world\u2019s ant genera\" width=\"290\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_Formigas.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_Formigas-120x85.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tecno_Formigas-250x177.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">J\u00falio Chaul<\/span>Brazil is home to 31% of the world\u2019s ant genera<span class=\"media-credits\">J\u00falio Chaul<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brazil has at least 111 genera and about 1,500 species of ants, ranking the nation as the world\u2019s biodiversity champ in terms of ant genera and runner-up in number of species. And now it is easier for the general public to find information about the tremendous variety of ant forms in Brazil: in December 2015, the National Institute for Research on the Amazon (Inpa), in Manaus, released the <em>Guia para os g\u00eaneros de formigas do Brasil <\/em>(Guidebook on ant genera in Brazil), written by seven scientists. According to the book \u2013 at present available only in an open-access online version \u2013 Brazil is home to 31% of the world\u2019s known genera of ants. \u201cIn most cases, genera group together sets of species that behave similarly in nature while also displaying their own unique characteristics,\u201d reads the book\u2019s forward, co-authored by Carlos Roberto F. Brand\u00e3o, of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Zoology Museum, and Rog\u00e9rio Rosa da Silva, of the Em\u00edlio Goeldi Museum of Par\u00e1. \u201cAdopting this category is appropriate in studies that try to identify how qualities shared by <em>phylogenetically<\/em> similar groups of species eventually diversified and established themselves during the evolutionary history of lineages.\u201d The guidebook offers basic information on biology, ecology, and evolution, together with images of all the genera. It can be downloaded in PDF format at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1To7wPe\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1To7wPe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil is home to 31% of the world\u2019s ant genera\r\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[206],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-218203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biodiversity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=218203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}