- Charles B. Davis
- Research Papers
- Investigative Research
Diversity Patterns, Research Trends and Mismatches of the Investigative Efforts to Amphibian Conservation in Brazil
The number of papers on biology of amphibians has increased in the recent years. A detailed overview of the publications on amphibians can be very useful in assessing the status of our knowledge about this taxonomic group. Due to the large number of articles published, we aimed to assess the scientific contribution of herpetological researches carried out between the years 2001 and 2010 on Brazilian amphibians, considering the diversity patterns, the threats and the research topics that have been published most often. We applied scientometric attention indexes in the reviewed studies from seven scientific databases...
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